Help a noob with a blown PSU

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gold333

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Some laughter at the expense of noobdom:

I hooked up a 550w PSU to my new setup (790i, GTX275, E8500(E0), 4GB 1600 DDR3 Corsair RAM, 1TB Caviar Black, etc.)

The PSU was an ebay buy i.e. set to 110V (US) I live in europe (220V), Little did I know the damn thing has a tiny switch at the back 110V-240V.

So (apparently) I start the thing up at 100V hooked to a 220V socket.

The computer lights up and works fine for 0.2 seconds.

Then fireworks, I get sparks, the house fuse blows and apparently my neighbours cooking stove stopped working.

So I thought ok need to get a new pc (again).

I had a coolermaster 600w PSU lying around and thought what the hell I'll try it, and what do you know, everything works... nothing's fried.



My question is: Is there anyway for an electronics shop to fix that 550w blown PSU? I have a transparent case and CCFL and the 550w is transparent too (the coolermaster is ugly black) I don't want to buy a 550w form ebay again as they ask a ridiculous shipping price of $60 for a $40 PSU.
 
Yeah... for a psu, first rule is dont give more than half a damn on looks. Quality power supplies arent gonna be made with lexan covers, or transparent whatnot. Second mistake was buying a power supply off ebay, should have went to newegg and got a quality psu such as:
OCZ, Corsair, Antec, PC Power&Cooling, FSP, Tagan, BFG, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Xclio, Zalman, or Seasonic power supply.

gold333 said:
No it is a Logisys 550W, why?
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This is why, sounds like whoever sold it to you made the lexan case for it themselves:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817170019

$40 doesnt buy much of a power supply, on a good 550W expect to spend $60-70 or more unless its on sale. The coolermaster you have there should run that rig ok, if you dont like how it looks.... well, get one you like the looks of but on the decent brands mentioned above.
 
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yeah...you would just be better off pitching your fried psu, you should consider yourself lucky that you didn't fry everything, just use the coolermaster, its much higher quality than the logysis
 
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