I just spent two hours replacing the power supply in my work PC after the old one exploded. No kidding, complete with a flash of light and a loud bang. I'm pretty sure it took about a year off my life, right there.
The power supply was simple to replace, but it appears that it damaged the USB controller in my monitor when it went *POP*. Oh well. That's what warranties are for.
In all my years working with computers, I've never seen one fail quite so... spectacularly.
Just for the record, it was a 400w power supply manufactured by Zumax. It's the second such PS that has failed in the past two months, though the first one died over a weekend, so we didn't witness if it was as exciting. All of these power supplies are less than 18 months old, and all (five of them) were installed at the same time to support bigger/better video cards in our workstations. Not a great track record.
Tuesday, August 12
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