I think my PSU just blew up!!

[socalcyclist]

OK, I'm sitting here on my trainer riding away when suddenly I hear this loud popping/buzzing sound. I turn around and see this flash of light coming from the back of my computer. It won't turn on and there's the smell of smoke/burning in the air.

The PSU is a Enermax Noisetaker II 600W. It's only a week old!! Coud the bike trainer have caused this? It was about 5' from the computer. Does it create some sort of static electricity or something that would effect the PSU? How bad do you think the damage is? Does the PSU have some sort of safety mechanism to protect the mobo and other parts?

Man this sucks!!

Link to bike trainer:
http://www.performancebike.com/shop/Pro...m=40-0722&slitrk=search&slisearch=true

 

[Gagan]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha.

Ok now back to the PSU. If it's popping make sure you check your motherboard and it's not hte capacitators.

After you checked that get yourself and OCZ POwerstreem 600w and I hope you learned your lesson about cheap PSU's.

-much love

 

[thescreensavers]

I think you got a bad PSU and never skimp out on a cheap

 

[MrUniq]

an Enermax Noisetaker II 600W is a cheap PSU!!?? So quick to say the usaual mantras...not a cheap one!!..just and individually bad PSU. RMA it...get another. Test you rig on a diff PSU..maybe your PC recieved a jolt. Is it hooked to a powerstrip?

 

[socalcyclist]

Originally posted by: MrUniq
an Enermax Noisetaker II 600W is a cheap PSU!!?? So quick to say the usaual mantras...not a cheap one!!..just and individually bad PSU. RMA it...get another. Test you rig on a diff PSU..maybe your PC recieved a jolt. Is it hooked to a powerstrip?

Yea, a cheap PSU? Do these people on here even read the threads or do they just spew out the same garbage for everything regardless?

The only other PSU I have is from my old 10 year old POS Compaq. I don't think it will even come close to powering the new computer. The Enermax has been working fine the past week I've had it. I'm really thinking it was the trainer that did it. I was pushing out some serious watts when it blew. Also, windows was in sleep mode or whatever it's called and everything was basically turned off - none of the fans were going including the PSU, I don't think.

 

[cessation]

ROFLMAO@ Enermax Noisetaker II 600W being cheap. loooolz, oh im dying here gagan and screensaver guy should do standup comedy, lol.

 

[Stas]

Get a good surge protector and RMA your power supply. And, yeah, just ignore those "Enermax is cheap" n00bz.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: Stas
Get a good surge protector and RMA your power supply. And, yeah, just ignore those "Enermax is cheap" n00bz.

QFT

 

[unclebud]

what is the weather like there today? is it damp or otherwise a lot of mositure in the air
if so, probably so
sorry for the loss. peace

 

[OSX]

Unless your bike trainer was hardwired into the PSU, I doubt that did it.

 

[Luckyboy1]

Enermax Makes some excellent power supplies! This is the first time I've ever, and I mean ever heard anyone group 'em with the cheap types! Here's the specs...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817194005#DetailSpecs

and let me point out a few of them to you just to make my point...

High Efficiency >80%

that means more than 80% of the AC current coming in gets converted to usable power. The cheap ones will say something like...

<70%

which means at best, you'll get less than 70% of the AC power fed into the unit back out in usable energy.

NVIDIA SLI Certified

not as big a deal as some make it out to be, but still, it is an additional certification that most of the cheap ones don't have.

Approvals UL (Level 3), cUL (Level 3), VDE, CB, NEMKO, SEMKO, DEMKO, FIMKO

then it meets or exceeds all those standards.

Here's the weakest link in the specs and it's not entirely too weak at that...

Hold-up Time 17ms at 115VAC or 230VAC, full load

That means all these values...

Output +3.3V@34A, +5V@34A, +12V1@22A, +12V2@22A, -12V@0.6A, +5VSB@3.0A

are good for the first 17/100ths of a second and then it delivers less power, but by exactly what, we don't know, but passing all those standards leads me to believe it's not hiding specs so much as not drumming us to death with them.

Also, a cheap power supply will NOT be rated by all those standards for...

MTBF >100,000 Hours

lifespan. It just ain't a cheap or bad power supply.


Now, to try and answer this guy's original question. there was a couple threads earlier that talked about static from carpet and just the normal static from walking about usually isn't enough to cause a problem. However, if this bike thingy uses a friction device to give resistance, yes, it could easily provide the amps needed to overwlem just about any device and it just took the easiest path to ground. I can't say for sure that was the case, but it is a high suspect

Put a grounding wire on the bike and rMA the power supply fitness man!

 

[socalcyclist]

Originally posted by: OSX
Unless your bike trainer was hardwired into the PSU, I doubt that did it.

Just a coincidence the PSU blew when I was standing putting out the most power I had the entire workout? The trainer must produce some type of energy, right? I dunno, I'm just so bummed right now!!

 

[socalcyclist]

Originally posted by: Luckyboy1
and just the normal static from walking about usually isn't enough to cause a problem. However, if this bike thingy uses a friction device to give resistance, yes, it could easily provide the amps needed to overwlem just about any device and it just took the easiest path to ground. I can't say for sure that was the case, but it is a high suspect

Put a grounding wire on the bike and rMA the power supply fitness man!

Yea, there's definetly friction and heat. The tire is pressed up against a metal cylinder. The trainer gets very hot by the end of a workout.

 

[Jules]

Originally posted by: Gagan
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha.

Ok now back to the PSU. If it's popping make sure you check your motherboard and it's not hte capacitators.

After you checked that get yourself and OCZ POwerstreem 600w and I hope you learned your lesson about cheap PSU's.

-much love

Stupidity FTW.

 

[TrevorRC]

Originally posted by: Gagan
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha.

Ok now back to the PSU. If it's popping make sure you check your motherboard and it's not hte capacitators.

After you checked that get yourself and OCZ POwerstreem 600w and I hope you learned your lesson about cheap PSU's.

-much love

Enermax isn't a 'cheap' brand.

OCZ PSUs are OEM'd by Fortron & Topower....In the majority of cases, Enermax is a better builder than than both of them.

Sometimes there are duds. Don't believe it'd be static--you can use a Van Der Graff Generator and crank at as fast as possible for quite a while.... and it'd still only be able to travel ~4-5 INCHES through air. Maximum. Air is a resistor [a VERY bad conductor...] and it takes extreme voltages to get through it. Your bike won't do anything like that.

--Trevor

 

[allanon1965]

I agree your trainer is not the reason, just a bad psu...it happens.....your trainer is no where near powerful enough to cause the psu to blow out....it would have to backfeed the entire electrical circuitry to accomplish that and I assure you...that isnt going to happen

 

[SparkyJJO]

THIS is a CHEAP PSU? You guys on crack or something??

 

[Gagan]

I was laughing at the exploded part not the PSU hahahah

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: Gagan
I was laughing at the exploded part not the PSU hahahah

you're obviously stupid. whats so funny about that. whats more funny is you having 4gb of ram while windows will only run 3 and running 3+gb's of ram will more often slow down your computer more than speed it up. you obviously dont know anything about psus with your bling riced out ocz powerstream. hows the blue lights going? if you dont know anything about psus dont post.

as for op sorry for your loss. i suggest you, RMA the psu right away and contact enermax if they can provide some kind of replacement if your motherboard was damaged? i dont know if theres anything u can do about that, but at least u can rma and get a new psu and try it again

 

[Gagan]

ROFL.

LOL @ Louisss. You're the idiot that claims ATI is gaming king and won't hear otherwise because "x1900xt is gawd". Check your stupid posts you dumb biased idiot. Let me tell you something noob.

Clearly you have no idea what the HELL you're talking about. Becaues x64 sees all 4gb. And 3gb or more? Are you stupid? It's anything more than 2 dimms aka MORE THAN 2GB which lowers the command rate to 2T Which only results in a loss of 5 PERCENT. I will take that loss for 5 percent

Quit hating on my rig you dumb idiot ,because you seriously have alot more to learn about computers, it isn't my fault you're jealous I own something you can't afford, kiddo.

Riced out Powerstrema? The Powerstream is the best PSU other than PC P and C PSUS. Also your idiot @$$ probably didn't know it came with POWERSWAP Warranty which allows me to receive a new one before I send out my broken one minimizing my downtime.

Have a nice cup of STFU noob.

 

[Gagan]

Just to slap you around a little bit more Louisss: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=37&threadid=1825404&enterthread=y

That's how "rice" my rig is. I don't even have a window like you, RICE boy.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

have a nice cup of cry some more. i have better things to spend my money on. your $3k rig performs 10% better than mine. i also got most my parts for 50% off so you can keep crying. you swear you're rich or something. i'm 11 years old so stfu.currently ati is the king. tomorrow, ati will still be the king. until the day nvidia cards can play games at high res and AA i wont own one. nobody was comparing my rig to yours in the first place anyone can say they have an fx60 in their sig. actually i have 2 so stfu? who are you to say ocz makes the best psus. do you work for them or something? so why are you on their dicks? so u purchase 2 extra gb's of ram for a 5% loss in performance over 2? gg?

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

This thread belongs in OT. The mods should move it.
Glad I found out one of you is 11 years old as that explains alot.

THANKS for helping the OP.

...Galvanized

 

[Gagan]

LOL. man you really know alot.

You're 11 good for you I'm 18 nothing seperates us. You didn't even make your own computer. ATI does suck. And don't mention something so vulgar again.

Did you see my pictures? That shows I own everything I said I did, you lose man go home

 

[twitchee2]

Wow you guys are help full.

OP: This seems like a one time case. RMA it, and the people that are saying enermax is cheap just dont know the hardware. Good luck hope you didnt lose anything else.