WTF.

[TitanDiddly]

Alright, last February I got ambitious about making a really small PC. I got a mATX/FlexATX hybrid motherboard, I bought a (rare, expensive) FlexATX PSU... I post about it on another forum, asking for advice on shortening a really long 20-pin cable. Some guy with good heat volunteers to do it for free. Alright I say, I'll send it out. I keep forgetting to send it out, but after a while I get it sent. No big deal, he says. I used DC, so I send him an email asking if it got there okay. I get a response, says he'll look at it. Almost a month passes. I shoot him a "what's up" email. Another week, and I get an email from him telling me that:

-His mom just got major brain surgery out of state, is manic depressive
-His dad was having an affair, left the family
-They need to sell the house, must find new one
-His sister is addicted to heroin

Sure, it's possible that all this stuff happened. Pretty unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility. So I tell him he has my sympathy and to take his time, just send it back when he can. After another month, I send another email. Hey, what's up, can I have my PSU back? I go on sending an email roughly every month with no reponses. Roughly a week ago, a box shows up with my PSU in it. Looks like the work was started but never finished. Clipped wire rejoined, etc. Alright. By now I've installed the little motherboard into a computer for my brother, so the project is shelved. Today I test the PSU. I plug it into a motherboard, then plug the PSU in... POW! ZAP! Sparks shoot out of the PSU and smoke is everywhere. Crap. I'm hoping the motherboard isn't damaged, I have a deal to sell it. Turns out the ATX 20-pin connector was re-pinned incorrectly.

:|:|:|:|:|:|:|:|

The PSU isn't available anymore. This is the closest match.

Cliff notes:
Last February - Send a guy a PSU to service as a favor
He waits a month, then tells me his family life exploded
I tell him OK, just send it back when you get a chance, no rush
This week the PSU comes back
It fries itself and possibly a motherboard I am planning to sell
:|

 

[Demo24]

lol. that sucks though

 

[yobarman]

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Or pay someone.

 

[Red Dawn]

The dog ate it:laugh:

 

[Yossarian]

that sucks, but you are a bit of a bonehead for "testing" it with a mobo you wanted to sell. especially given the sketchy nature of the work you had done on the PS.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
that sucks, but you are a bit of a bonehead for "testing" it with a mobo you wanted to sell. especially given the sketchy nature of the work you had done on the PS.

Didn't have another board to test it with, except my main rig. It *looked* alright- just like each of the wires was cut then reattached color to color- didn't think he had re-pinned the ATX connector. The mobo powers on with another PSU, but I haven't gotten a chance to do a full test.

 

[ElFenix]

i can never pronounce your name right

 

[Yossarian]

have you contacted the guy?

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
have you contacted the guy?

Yeah, just sent him an email. Two, actually.

Last email contact was in July, though.

 

[aplefka]

Geeze, that sucks man. I would say at least you got the PSU back but that doesn't matter in such a situation. You should at least see if you can get him to give you some money if not the full price for a new one similar to it.