Recent content by superman859

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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    Hey - the first one I'm not sure about warranty (Enermax). It may or may not be out of warranty as I cannot remember exactly when I bought it or find the receipt. The second one I'm definitely going to try and get fixed / replaced under warranty, though, but am still waiting for an RMA number...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    Thanks once again for the detailed response. I am beginning to realize just how important each number can be. To review my status - away from the numbers for a second - may clarify what my question is about. I had a PSU die 2 months ago and replaced it with a new one. The replacement died...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    Continuation from previous post: I just checked my current good power supply that's all hooked up and I'm pretty certain you are right about the units. While this one did not show 140, it did show 70mV when I wasn't touching anything, and I'm pretty sure I just missed the unit change. It's...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    Thanks for all the help and detailed responses. I understand that to me 'good' and 'bad' don't mean much, as I know little about this. I was going by the numbers listed in one of the stickies: For 3.3V, 3.125 to 3.465 For 5V, 4.75 to 5.25 For 12V, 11.4 to 12.6 Those were the ranges...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    For the 140v, here is a step by step of what I did: 1. Plug old working 250w PSU 20-pin P1 cable into 24-pin slot. Plug 4-pin CPU cable into motherboard as well. 2. Plug PSU into wall. There was no hard switch on this PSU, so the green light on MB turned on at this point, although nothing...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    Well, good thing I still have the receipt then! I was a little disappointed when I found it told me my old dead PSU was good when I knew it wouldn't power up the machine...What a waste of $35. As for the 140v, I'm not sure if it was AC or DC. It came off of the power supply molex / 4-pin cable...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    I have needed the system running many times when I wasn't around since I remote desktop in for research purposes. However, it wasn't downclocking itself (I know very little about changing clock speeds on machines and doing it properly). If this one goes too, I may look into some additional...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    I rewired everything, but ended up deciding to replace anyways. This stuff is about 4 years old and well, I think it's time to upgrade. Have a new MB, 3.4ghz quad-core processor (up from 2.4 dual core), RAM, and a pair of matching monitors coming my way this week... I think this time around...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    Coming up with a heavy load without my machine might be hard...just have lamps and my monitors and smaller things....but with this basic stuff on (everything thats normally on except computer) it seemed fine at 119.5-119.6 AC and wasn't jumping. As for the Corsair smell, it didn't used to...
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    Two Dead Power Supplies - Unsure of Cause

    I haven't had much luck with PSUs lately...About 1.5 months ago my 500 Watt Enermax power supply (few years old) went out when I was out of town. Not sure what happened. Computer simply wouldn't boot or power up or spin fans or anything. Yesterday, it's replacement (only 1.5 months old) went...