- Joined
- Feb 4, 2002
I got a call from my neighbor today saying that my son came over when the power when the power went out and my computer was smoking 
He couldn't call me from home, only the cordless was hooked up.
So I rushed home and found my ups drained, and the stench of burnt electronics. I opened the case and found the hoses to my cpu block colapsed, I thought the cpu was a gonner. So I unplug everything and check to make sure nothing is hot, but everything was cool to the touch. So I figured I'll deal with this later when the power comes back on and I went back to work.
I asked my son where the smoke was comming from and he said the psu. So I unplug all the psu connectors from everything and plug the psu in and it started throwing sparks, it's shorted.
Then I realize I dont have any extra hose, so I ran to the parts hose to get some. I get all my plumbing, fixed then I put in an old psu.... and the thing fires up like nothing ever happened.
The only thing I can think of is the ups got low and the psu couldn't handle the lower voltage, blowing a capacitor. The brown stuff on the psu insides (pics below) is the liquid from the blown capacitor. The capacitor also swelled up and melted into the second fan housing. I was lucky, it could have been alot worse. No more ups for me, I'd rather loose data instead of hardware. I'll just use it for bios updates and installs. And evidently the heat off the psu is what caused the hose to collapse.
Jim
He couldn't call me from home, only the cordless was hooked up. So I rushed home and found my ups drained, and the stench of burnt electronics. I opened the case and found the hoses to my cpu block colapsed, I thought the cpu was a gonner. So I unplug everything and check to make sure nothing is hot, but everything was cool to the touch. So I figured I'll deal with this later when the power comes back on and I went back to work.
I asked my son where the smoke was comming from and he said the psu. So I unplug all the psu connectors from everything and plug the psu in and it started throwing sparks, it's shorted.
Then I realize I dont have any extra hose, so I ran to the parts hose to get some. I get all my plumbing, fixed then I put in an old psu.... and the thing fires up like nothing ever happened.
The only thing I can think of is the ups got low and the psu couldn't handle the lower voltage, blowing a capacitor. The brown stuff on the psu insides (pics below) is the liquid from the blown capacitor. The capacitor also swelled up and melted into the second fan housing. I was lucky, it could have been alot worse. No more ups for me, I'd rather loose data instead of hardware. I'll just use it for bios updates and installs. And evidently the heat off the psu is what caused the hose to collapse.
Jim
