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I think I torched an entire rig with a pansyass PSU

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EyeMWing

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Dad was forcing me to put together a rig out of shaved-off parts from my old setup (NF2, XP1900, Ti4200, good stuff) for my 5 year old nephew. Unfortunately, I didn't have a PSU for that, and told him such. He told me to use an old 250w. I told him it'd blow it up; and guess what? I'm thinkin' it did. I could've made like $150 with that hardware, and now it's quite dead.
 
That just means it was broke 10 minutes before the 5 year old would have broke it with spyware and viruses.
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
That just means it was broke 10 minutes before the 5 year old would have broke it with spyware and viruses.
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Tell that to the image-on-reboot setup I was going to implement.
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: mobobuff
That just means it was broke 10 minutes before the 5 year old would have broke it with spyware and viruses.
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Tell that to the image-on-reboot setup I was going to implement.
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Even if you did implement a Deep Freeze type configuration, I wouldn't want to be the one building a machine for a 5 year old, because everytime the kid manages to fvck it up... guess who's getting a phonecall?
 
Originally posted by: mobobuff
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: mobobuff
That just means it was broke 10 minutes before the 5 year old would have broke it with spyware and viruses.
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Tell that to the image-on-reboot setup I was going to implement.
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Even if you did implement a Deep Freeze type configuration, I wouldn't want to be the one building a machine for a 5 year old, because everytime the kid manages to fvck it up... guess who's getting a phonecall?
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He lives here, so it's not so much a phonecall as someone yelling at me to fix the damn thing. Then I just remote login, start=>shut down=>restart 😛
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
I told him it'd blow it up; and guess what? I'm thinkin' it did.

Based on what?
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based on the fact that if it wasn't the powersupply, he would be wrong...and that's just unacceptable.
 
MB, RAM and CPU are okay. HDD, CDRW, video are indeterminate at the moment.

And it *IS* a PSU issue, because that PSU's life ended before my very eyes with smoke pouring out the exhaust.
 
You know there wasn't a screw laying on the board somewhere, or similar problem? Exactly what would have required so much more power, compared to the machine it came out of?
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
MB, RAM and CPU are okay. HDD, CDRW, video are indeterminate at the moment.

And it *IS* a PSU issue, because that PSU's life ended before my very eyes with smoke pouring out the exhaust.
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You were set up. Were you on 'Candid Camera'?
 
Originally posted by: Ornery
You know there wasn't a screw laying on the board somewhere, or similar problem? Exactly what would have required so much more power, compared to the machine it came out of?
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Well, the PSU is/was a GENERIC 250w, probably ~150w sustained. It was pulled from a Pentium 1 rig with a 4200RPM HDD, 8mb RAM, some tiny ass S3 video chip with 512k RAM, and no sound card.

The system in question is an nForce 2, XP1900, 512mb RAM, 7200RPM HDD, GF4 4200 and a CDRW. I think the difference in power requirements is obvious.
 
A7n8x doesn't have a 12v aux connector. Asus never did put it on any of their Socket A boards, and it was the source of quite a few problems.
 
Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
a generic 400w would have done it. They are twenty bucks.
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Put 400W of load on generic PSU continuously and it will probably burn out in less than a day.
 
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