Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Folks, keep in mind why I asked this question in the first place. >>> My power supply was frying and I needed a VERY fast shutdown. >>> >> >> I'd shutdown and stay shutdown until I could replace the PSU. PSUs are >> cheap, the components a dying one can take with it are not :( >> >> >> > > Well, the P/S went out right when it was unmounting at the very end of > the shutdown process. I had one file system that it had to replay a > few things when I rebooted. It was a close call since the file > systems that wasn't unmounted was not a critical one. I can no longer contain my curiosity. How did you know it was frying? Smell, smoke? Normally, when something like that fails, it will fail too quickly for you to do anything about it. > > I did replace the P/S with a new one tho. After getting the rubber > band off the fan, I did check to see if it would boot up but it just > sat there. I took it back apart and one of the transistors had a > burnt spot, actually, it was a diode. Since when those things burn > out they are basically not repairable, I just got a new one locally. > I plan to get a permanent replacement from newegg soon. The P/S I > have right now is a A-Open or something. It was all they had. I did > notice that the 5 volt rail is higher than the other P/S's I have had > before tho. This one is at 4.97 volts where it is usually 4.91 or > something. Ah yes, the old dead fan problem... that's why I keep a can of compressed air near my desk, and if not that, a pair of full lungs. ;-)
A low quality PSU shouldn't be too bad, for the time being. However, I wouldn't recommend running on one for longer than necessary. I've had friends who trusted case PSUs a little too much, and paid the price. > > You are right about burning out other components tho. I have had two > P/S's to burn out in this one rig. So far, nothing else hurt. I have > some good luck I guess. Sounds like it. Hey, can I borrow some of that luck? You'll get it back in *almost* mint condition. > > Dale > -Hal > :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
