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Power Supply Failure Comorbidities

When my power supply died,

  • I just replaced it and everything else was fine.

  • It took out one or more other components with it.

  • The computer caught on fire, exploded, or I had to run for my life.

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Bearmann

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I know that it is a possibility, but how often does the PSU damage other components on its way out?

If it's a good story, let's hear about it!
 
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Bearmann said:
I know that it is a possibility, but how often does the PSU damage other components on its way out?

If it's a good story, let's hear about it!
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I've melted cables, but never had an ATX psu take out equipment. They generally tend to fail pretty safe these days.

That title though. Is that supposed to be combinations? Comodities?
 
MrTeal said:
I've melted cables, but never had an ATX psu take out equipment. They generally tend to fail pretty safe these days.

That title though. Is that supposed to be combinations? Comodities?
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When two disorders or illnesses occur in the same person, simultaneously or sequentially, they are described as comorbid. Comorbidity also implies interactions between the illnesses that affect the course and prognosis of both.
 
Bearmann said:
When two disorders or illnesses occur in the same person, simultaneously or sequentially, they are described as comorbid. Comorbidity also implies interactions between the illnesses that affect the course and prognosis of both.
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Aha, never would have guessed that without the r. 😛
 
In quality / more modern designs psu failure rarely takes anything else with it, but in the old days it was different, I had a 486 box 180ish watt AT PSU made by Delta (solid server grade psu too) catch on fire and melt most of the PC's motherboard and make a bunch of toxic smoke that took forever to air out. Later I had some Pos Deer psu's that came was some cases (250 watt to 350 watt atx) killed several ide hdds and a few motherboards when they failed (and they all died fairly fast within 1 to 3 years) they were in socket 7 / slot 1 systems.
 
took out my iwill dbs 100 (dual 440BX), slocket, 1.2ghz tualatin, scsi plexwriter, 16gb scsi main drive, 40gb ide storage drive

looking at the specs it's a wonder it ever worked, definitely an older design with most of the power on the 5v rails
 
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