Blow-out

[Seob]

Just started my older windows xp athlon 2600 based pc, because i wanted to see what documents i had on my zip disks. But the fun didn't last long. Just after running for about 15 minutes, there was a little flash visible inside the power supply followed by a huge smokescreen. After venting the house i inspected the power supply to see what happened.

Cause of the failure where few caps who had exploded.

Have to trace a new power supply, since the one i have now is just 250w, to see if there is more damage.

Before i tried this pc, i was working with a mac lc that hadn't been running for more then 2 years, and that worked without any trouble,lol.

[Keatah]

Mmm..that suxerz. It would seem that every older athlon system for some reason or another seems to blow up.

[Rybags]

250 Watts might run it. Power requirements tend to be way overstated on most hardware.

 

Even my Core2Quad only uses about 170 at idle, but running 3D instantly adds a bit over 100 to that.

 

I suspect dust and unnoticed failed fans probably kill as many PSUs as anything else. The things can get real hot if the ventilation is compromised.

[Seob]

There was a bit of dust inside the psu, but i have seen worse. Didn't check if the fan was running, so that could be the cause.

Will try my 250watt psu tonight. I remember i had to swap the psu at some point because of windows faillures, but i will remove all components i don't need, like the tv-card, so it doesn't stress the psu to much.

[Seob]

We'll no power up with the 250watt psu. So the psu may be broken or the cpu has died on me as well. As i turn it on i hear a buzz like something spinning up, But it isn't the psu fan or the cpu fan. No drives connected. When i unplug the power cable from the wall outlet the cpu fan spins round a second and then stops.

 

So i removed the zip disk to put in a harddisk enclosure and hooked it up on my win7 pc. It works good, so now i have copied all files from the zips and came across my old amiga mod files. Ah memories. I made some with a friend of mine back in the days, using a 286 pc with modedit and a diy covox cable. Ha the looks on the faces of people attending a computer club, dragging a pc inside with a amplifier and then going to those amiga guys to extract mod files from games.