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oldsoldier 
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Well while playing on the computer all is going well when "SNAP, crackle, SNAP, POW" smoke and flame starts coming from the power supply fan vent. Pull the wires from rear, open bedroom porch door and out it goes. Damage, it's totalled, fried, power surge fried motherboard, hard drive, vid card, the works. Plastics and fans were melting, actual flame till I got the extinguisger on it. Even the mem cards are melted, nothing to salvage.
Not going to rebuild another machine going to get on off shelf. HP H8-1234, 10GB mem, 1TB hard drive, HD7450 vid card (had a HD6770 in last machine, worked for what I needed, is this new card any better?, no real write ups on it)all for $625 I know could do better, but not in the mood to go shopping, just get something and start again from scratch. |
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RoboCop
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Posted: 12 September 2012 at 3:48pm |
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Pron overload.
Sorry to hear about that. At least nothing more serious got damaged.
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Kingtiger
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Posted: 12 September 2012 at 4:27pm |
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Aim for at least a 6770 or 7770, the x6xx and lower are low to mid-end cards.
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Enos Shenk
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Posted: 12 September 2012 at 8:42pm |
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Ouch. I had a friend experienced the catastrophic power supply failure as well. His was pretty much the same story, flames out the fan vent and all.
A good quality power supply will usually give warning before it goes blammo. Usually random restarts or freezes. The problem is, it's pretty much the same tells you get from a mainboard or memory about to die. A power supply is actually one of the few components I reccomend to people "Fix it NOW" when they start getting weirdness. Just not worth it to have the magic smoke come out. |
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oldsoldier
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Posted: 12 September 2012 at 10:01pm |
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Yea, noticed start up delays and long periods of holding in power button before response. Should of set off alarm bells.
Bought a Alienware X-51 from a friends store, at his cost. I-7 -3770 CPU 3.4ghz GeForce GT 545 8gb memory 1Tb hard drive Direct X 11 $757 |
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 9:01pm |
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Reb Cpl
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 9:51pm |
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Holy crap and a half, where did you come from? |
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tallen702
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 9:56pm |
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I ♥ Sporx!
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<Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.>
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sporx
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 10:27pm |
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Oldsoldier's hard drive. I was trapped in there for many years. |
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usafpilot07
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 10:30pm |
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In the context of the quoted conversation, that sounds even worse. |
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RoboCop
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 11:06pm |
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She quoted me! The czech girl quoted the half czech guy!
Welcome back, but you probably won't stay long, will you?
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sporx
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 11:23pm |
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Oooooo! Tank you, prease!
Meh, you never know. If I keep reading all these terrible/greatly annoying posts from FE, I might not. I just noticed your sig and physically laughed out loud. |
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RoboCop
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Posted: 13 September 2012 at 11:59pm |
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That has been there forever. I haven't touched my sig since pre 2009.
Pretty much everyone can agree with you about FE.
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Posted: 14 September 2012 at 12:14am |
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A GHOST!
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sporx
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I'm quite aware. Hence the lol. With that being said, I vote a reunion post your pic in in store. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, he's a tea bagger. Party. Whatever. |
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Posted: 14 September 2012 at 12:39am |
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I... You...
Huh. Hi. Did you happen to bring Styro Folme with you?
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Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted: 14 September 2012 at 2:35am |
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No. Although, he and I did have hang this past weekend at a kegger/MU chaos.
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Reb Cpl
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Posted: 14 September 2012 at 11:21am |
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That could either be depressing because we're all getting old, or hilarious because we're all getting old. |
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RoboCop
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Posted: 14 September 2012 at 12:31pm |
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I'm growing a beard so that's a thing.
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