Is my power supply dead?

[Bluga]

My computer shutted down itself (like power loss) and i can not even turn on my computer, thers's burning smell in my power supply.

I'm running 1.33GHz Athlon.

 

[Vegito]

Could be... what kind of power supply is it ?

My friend has a dirty case, not regularly clean out with aircan and vaccum.. his ps overheated and burn out... all things connected to the ps died.. ie.. motherboard, cdrw, cdr, dvd, hd, floppy. Had to replace everything except the CPU... very bad... be careful!

 

[Sniper82]

Yep its dead. What brand and wattage was you useing?

 

[Bluga]

Using 300W (i forgot the brand, but its AMD approved, on the PS it says there's temperature overheat protection)



<< My friend has a dirty case, not regularly clean out with aircan and vaccum.. his ps overheated and burn out... all things connected to the ps died.. ie.. motherboard, cdrw, cdr, dvd, hd, floppy. Had to replace everything except the CPU... very bad... be careful! >>



What?! Don't scare me, i'm running RAID and GeForce card in there (+DVD, CD-RW)

 

[Sniper82]

naw don't worry to much as this happen to me a few weeks back but I was useing a 240watt PSU. Although when mine died it didnt smell burnt up. All is well after putting a new PSU in.

 

[Bluga]

Which brand do you recommend?

Is enumrax good?

 

[Sniper82]

Yeah thats a good one. I don't think it matter much as long as it AMD approved but I would prob get a 350watt.