My PC's power supply is at least four or five years old. It's never given me trouble until recently - a couple of times, I noticed a weird burning smell coming from my tower. Not knowing the cause, I turned it off. It was only during the third occurence that I noticed my power supply fan wasn't moving.
I brought it to a tech-savvy friend for diagnosis. He opened it up and found a fairly large amount of dried hot-glue droplets laying around the case! He believes that one of these must have blocked the fan from moving. But more disconcertingly, he also saw a couple of small damaged resistors in there. One was cracked down the middle, and one was rather warped. The rest of the supply was OK.
Now, it's running well at the moment, but now I'm paranoid about leaving it alone for more than five minutes. I'm afraid my house will burn down or something.
Could those damaged capacitors cause any further damage to my power supply, PC, or anything else? Or are they just a minor problem?
Thanks!
I brought it to a tech-savvy friend for diagnosis. He opened it up and found a fairly large amount of dried hot-glue droplets laying around the case! He believes that one of these must have blocked the fan from moving. But more disconcertingly, he also saw a couple of small damaged resistors in there. One was cracked down the middle, and one was rather warped. The rest of the supply was OK.
Now, it's running well at the moment, but now I'm paranoid about leaving it alone for more than five minutes. I'm afraid my house will burn down or something.
Could those damaged capacitors cause any further damage to my power supply, PC, or anything else? Or are they just a minor problem?
Thanks!