Dilly man 2
New Member
that is spelt way wrong b/w...
I had a Antec NEO HE 550watt. i installed the set-up in my sig and it ran fine for 7-10minutes.
the PSU started making a crackling noise, my ceiling lights would flicker and i was inspecting it. soon enough it went boom and started to smoke, i killed the power. (a lot of smoke)
My dad said it smelt like a transister fried in the PSU. he said it was most likley malfunctional because i couldnt cause it to happen, well for one i wasnt using 550watts and to i didnt install anything wrong.
I packaged up the psu and going for the RMA and get a replacment for free.
Is my hardwear fried? I mean someone told me that the capaciters are the first to go - here is the quote -
Now, on my mother board, all of the cylinder barrel like capasiters are good, no bulging what-so ever. Then there are the donut like capasiters, like the one in this picture....
(the one on the far far right. mine looks like that only the wires are a little more "U" shaped instead of hugging the capaciter. only the yellow donut capaciter looks like that. the green 2 and the black 4 all look fine.
CAN SOMEONE LOOK AT THEIR CAPACITERS AND TELL ME WHAT EXACTLY THEY LOOK LIKE? LOOK AT THE DONUT SHAPED ONES, 4BLACK 1 YELLOW AND 2 GREEN CAPACITERS. TELL ME WHAT THE WIRES LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY ARE WRAPPED AROUND THE CAPACITER!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS
-JOE
I had a Antec NEO HE 550watt. i installed the set-up in my sig and it ran fine for 7-10minutes.
the PSU started making a crackling noise, my ceiling lights would flicker and i was inspecting it. soon enough it went boom and started to smoke, i killed the power. (a lot of smoke)
My dad said it smelt like a transister fried in the PSU. he said it was most likley malfunctional because i couldnt cause it to happen, well for one i wasnt using 550watts and to i didnt install anything wrong.
I packaged up the psu and going for the RMA and get a replacment for free.
Is my hardwear fried? I mean someone told me that the capaciters are the first to go - here is the quote -
ghostfacesuk said:
Now, on my mother board, all of the cylinder barrel like capasiters are good, no bulging what-so ever. Then there are the donut like capasiters, like the one in this picture....
(the one on the far far right. mine looks like that only the wires are a little more "U" shaped instead of hugging the capaciter. only the yellow donut capaciter looks like that. the green 2 and the black 4 all look fine.
CAN SOMEONE LOOK AT THEIR CAPACITERS AND TELL ME WHAT EXACTLY THEY LOOK LIKE? LOOK AT THE DONUT SHAPED ONES, 4BLACK 1 YELLOW AND 2 GREEN CAPACITERS. TELL ME WHAT THE WIRES LOOK LIKE WHEN THEY ARE WRAPPED AROUND THE CAPACITER!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS
-JOE
