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- Dec 30, 2004
My friend's mom cut him a $1500 for christmas to build a computer. I helped him pick out the parts, whatever. I helped him get everything together one day afterschool... the main concern is his PSU.. it's an Ocz something or other (I think mod/powerstream, I'm not really sure what he ordered.)
So we get everything connected, go to boot her up... we plug in the wall outlet (psu is off)... blue sparks from the outlet, breaker flips. yay.
We move to a different outlet, try again, the fat prong on the power cord MELTS. Maybe .5cm of it is charred, melted, and deformed. Again, blue sparks. Lights flicker in the house. We get a new power cable, same effect (this time, no melting of the prong.)
So apparently, a defective PSU. Hopefully nothing in his system got raped.
So we get everything connected, go to boot her up... we plug in the wall outlet (psu is off)... blue sparks from the outlet, breaker flips. yay.
We move to a different outlet, try again, the fat prong on the power cord MELTS. Maybe .5cm of it is charred, melted, and deformed. Again, blue sparks. Lights flicker in the house. We get a new power cable, same effect (this time, no melting of the prong.)
So apparently, a defective PSU. Hopefully nothing in his system got raped.