My brothers power supply just started smoking when we turned on his PC. Dont know why, the voltage was set to 240v cos am in the UK and that's the right voltage in the uk. SO why do they just blow up? or start pufing out smoke??
My brothers power supply just started smoking when we turned on his PC. Dont know why, the voltage was set to 240v cos am in the UK and that's the right voltage in the uk. SO why do they just blow up? or start pufing out smoke??
It just fried.
its a crap power supply
Yer it was a cheap 400watt, but what blows up in a power supply and why??
shit happens...deal with it.
Some components get old.
Others are poorly made.
This causes bad things to happen.
When I used to work in IT support for a place with about 300 comps, they used crappy old computers as 'print servers', they ran off a floppy and all they did was manage the print queue for each printer... during a really busy couple of weeks we got repeated calls about one of them making a lot of noise, but yeah we were busy with more urgent things so we didn't get around to checking it then... later on I found old notesa about the calls and realized "hey we haven't heard anything more from them, better go check it out"... well the PS fan had been dying (noisy), then died totally (silent, so no complaints lol)... anyhoo I could tell there was no air flow so I popped the hood on the PS and wasps had laid eggs in there cause it was nice and warm and dry :shock:
... I don't think that's your problem thoughBut certainly a stray moth or gecko or something can get in and fry itself and that'll ruin a power supply pretty easily if it's in the right (wrong) place...
Because it isn't the future yet. No one really knows!
maybe obsolete?
Cheaply made power supplies have a habit of doing that, I've built customers computers we're 3 power supplies fizzled back to back. It was ridiculous
iv never had anything blow up on me in any computer iv owned O.O
SO you ask what may blow up? ANYTHING! circut occours shomewhere and bah its gone your transistors and everything also you can blow up with it :D
Redundant backups in a pwoer supply, multiple rails, and lots of other factors in high quality power supplies will cause it to not "blow up", you 'NEVER' buy a cheap PSU.. its the heart of the system, and if you go cheap, you are asking for future damage to happen.
Well it was a cheap make nothing like Hiper, Thermaltake, Coolermaster or Antec.
Dont buy crap like that then.
i didnt my brothers friend who built the machine did. ne way he has a Arctic psu nowOriginally Posted by PhOeNiX~
Well lets hope it lasts.
cost him
Found out why power supply's blow.
The capacitor inside over heat and because they are under pressure they explode and puffing out smoke as well :)
