- Joined
- May 27, 2002
- Location
- Austin, TX
I was just sitting here with my old Athlon 800 system under my desk and I started to smell that signature smell of burned components, then a crackling sound. Then the system just powers off entirely. After opening up the case, I'm thinking "hmm, guess it's a blown PSU," so I dig through my closet and find another PSU.
Plug it into the mobo and power it on....no post...then suddenly...I look at the capacitors for the VRM on the mobo...smoking and spewing electrolyte!
I remember back when there was that capacitor scandal overseas, there was lots of computers coming into the shop I worked at with exploded caps. Never experienced it first hand till tonight. Funny thing too, the motherboard is a cheap old PC Chips Socket A everything integrated board that someone had given to me. It's probably got 7 years of use on it and it finally blew up. I was just thinking to myself the other night "if this cheap piece of crap has lasted this long, it must not have gotten the bad capacitors..." Whoops....spoke too soon. It really lasted a lot longer and worked much better than I had ever expected it to though being a cheap PC Chips integrated board.
Plug it into the mobo and power it on....no post...then suddenly...I look at the capacitors for the VRM on the mobo...smoking and spewing electrolyte!
I remember back when there was that capacitor scandal overseas, there was lots of computers coming into the shop I worked at with exploded caps. Never experienced it first hand till tonight. Funny thing too, the motherboard is a cheap old PC Chips Socket A everything integrated board that someone had given to me. It's probably got 7 years of use on it and it finally blew up. I was just thinking to myself the other night "if this cheap piece of crap has lasted this long, it must not have gotten the bad capacitors..." Whoops....spoke too soon. It really lasted a lot longer and worked much better than I had ever expected it to though being a cheap PC Chips integrated board.