Cheap electrolytic crapacitors leaking their guts, losing their capacitance and
becoming resistors...
Mainly in power supply areas.
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On Oct 31, 2012, at 20:09, Greg Fiorentino gf...@dslnorthwest.net wrote:
OK, so my
I quit buying Antec power supplies because of them; three successive power
supplies dying due to them is enough. The last one that I bought was a
Silverstone, and haven't had a whit of trouble.
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On Oct 31, 2012, at
Were these out of warranty? Antec has a long 5yr warranty period,
compared to most other brands.
Luther
On 11/1/2012 4:39 AM, John Reames wrote:
I quit buying Antec power supplies because of them; three successive power
supplies dying due to them is enough. The last one that I bought was
They failed right at the end of warranty.
I can't remember what the first one was, but the last two were Neo's, neo480,
or neo400 iirc.
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On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:16, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote:
Were these
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:00:39 -0400 John Reames jwrea...@comcast.net
wrote:
They failed right at the end of warranty.
I can't remember what the first one was, but the last two were Neo's,
neo480, or neo400 iirc.
I have had good success with Antec, though the last power supply I bought
(for a
OK, so my home-cobbled HTPC started acting flaky a few days ago. Sudden
reboots, BIOS date gone, changing BIOS settings uncommanded, one CMOS
checksum error. I assumed unit needed vacuuming, possible CMOS battery
failure, possible power supply failure. Vacuumed, replaced P/S with new
spare,
Not an expert, surely, but the last time I had one do that it was a
bad power supply.
Peter
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Troubleshooting hardware is a tedious process. It is easier, albeit no less
tedious if you have enough spare parts to construct another computer. My first
suspect in your instance would be the power supply. If you have a spare, swap
them out and see. If you don't have a spare, pull the old one
Similar deal, I had a vid card that had almost all the cheepcheepchinee
capacitors blown, replaced it and things went back to normal. It is
easy to inspect the vid card and mobo for blown capacitors, they have
their caps oozing nasty-looking foamy stuff. I had a coupla old mobos go
bad too,
I concur at the remove everything then add one by one and would offer
this. Memory, CPU, or MOBO all generally issue beep codes when in
failure mode, power supplies don't (if the right section of the power
fails, i.e. not the fan/hd side). My bet is on a power supply,
especially if you have
On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:39 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote:
My bet is on a power supply, especially if you have had any weather that
could produce a spike in voltage
Not only voltage spikes, but pet hair and dander get packed in the fans and
kill them.
BTW, welcome back to
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