- Joined
- Jan 9, 2002
Well I'm writing this on my other computer. I was listening to music on my computer and all the sudden it just shut off. I thought the cat had switched off my power strip again but no, i couldn't turn it back on. Couple seconds later I smell something like burning plastic and I trace it back to my power supply which is my now beaten and battered Allied power supply (I say beaten and battered because I have the computers in the basement and it just so happened that when I pulled the supply out it slipped out of my fingers at a very fast rate and plummeted to the floor. I picked it up again and tried to squash a bug on the opposite wall. I missed. I repeated the steps over and over until the bug was gone.)
Anyways, the supply damaged my 52x CD-ROM which was where the music was coming from, it now no longer reads burned cd's and has to read real cd's for a long time before it sees them.
If you are thinking about going the cheap route and settling for an Allied supply, consider how much its going to cost to replace the part that it takes out when it decides to burn out.
And please, if you have an Allied supply currently, they make a nice flat surface for jamming a golf ball tee into and practicing your driving. Also I found it a good tool to prop up a small swamp cooler outside a window well. I'm sure you can find many other usefull things to use these 40$ paper weights for.
Don't use allied.
Anyways, the supply damaged my 52x CD-ROM which was where the music was coming from, it now no longer reads burned cd's and has to read real cd's for a long time before it sees them.
If you are thinking about going the cheap route and settling for an Allied supply, consider how much its going to cost to replace the part that it takes out when it decides to burn out.
And please, if you have an Allied supply currently, they make a nice flat surface for jamming a golf ball tee into and practicing your driving. Also I found it a good tool to prop up a small swamp cooler outside a window well. I'm sure you can find many other usefull things to use these 40$ paper weights for.
Don't use allied.