so i'm a software qa engineer. in our down time we decided to figure out what was wrong with all our white box test boxes we had built. since all of them were dying.
now we build a pretty standard config
athlon xp 2400, 512mb ddr333, ati 9000 pro, and an epox 8rda+ nf2, with like 80 gb hard drive with antec case.
anyways we noticed a lotof the antec psus were blowing out, so we had this huge pile of half dead computers (we just stopped bothering and just buy compaqs and dells now... instead of building it ourselves)
anyhow i decided to go through about 5 of these machines to see what we can salvage. well now it looks like we are going to raffle off the remains. one machines survived.
turns out that machine we ran out of epox boards and used an asus a7n8x instead of epox. ALL the epox baords had leaking capacitors and were dead (this is literally like 30 machines company wide) and that is what had killed the PSUs. the asus one works fine.
oh well, i have like 4-5 athlon xp 2400s now!haha
now we build a pretty standard config
athlon xp 2400, 512mb ddr333, ati 9000 pro, and an epox 8rda+ nf2, with like 80 gb hard drive with antec case.
anyways we noticed a lotof the antec psus were blowing out, so we had this huge pile of half dead computers (we just stopped bothering and just buy compaqs and dells now... instead of building it ourselves)
anyhow i decided to go through about 5 of these machines to see what we can salvage. well now it looks like we are going to raffle off the remains. one machines survived.
turns out that machine we ran out of epox boards and used an asus a7n8x instead of epox. ALL the epox baords had leaking capacitors and were dead (this is literally like 30 machines company wide) and that is what had killed the PSUs. the asus one works fine.
oh well, i have like 4-5 athlon xp 2400s now!haha
