why ? if power was cut off so he didnt get a shock then everything worked perfect !
all he did is blew the PSU up
My near death experience plugging a old pc in about 10 mins ago
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why ? if power was cut off so he didnt get a shock then everything worked perfect !
all he did is blew the PSU up
surely you just need to replace your fuse or fusewire or flick your RCD ?
does it smell like sherbert ? you blew the caps in the psu up , probably pretty big ones on such an old psu
Years ago when I was a kid with my first 'wang' PC I can remember taking the cover off it as a kid - looking about, getting a bit unsure sticking lid back on etc. This went on and off for a few days until I got the confidence and pulled the ram and disks etc just to see/learn really.
Put everything back, and I had a twin wire with a jumper connector left over. Couldn't figure out what it was for, found pins on the mobo it looked like it would fit on and that was that (!!!!).
Turned it on, everything spun up etc - and at the same time spewed clouds of thick arrid smoke from the PSU! A suprising amount.
I pooped it
Opened it up, removed it (don't think I ever figured what is was for, case related looking back) and it worked perfectly.
There is no chance in hell any motherboard these days would take that abuse.
Put everything back, and I had a twin wire with a jumper connector left over. Couldn't figure out what it was for, found pins on the mobo it looked like it would fit on and that was that (!!!!).
Turned it on, everything spun up etc - and at the same time spewed clouds of thick arrid smoke from the PSU! A suprising amount.
I pooped it
Opened it up, removed it (don't think I ever figured what is was for, case related looking back) and it worked perfectly.
There is no chance in hell any motherboard these days would take that abuse.
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Lol stupid voltage switch. When I was younger my pc was running slow so I checked out the back, looked at the voltage switch and was like ERM ITS ON LOW POWER LOL SWITCH TO HIGH 
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Turned PC on and BOOM.
Was so upset that I could not play BF2 for like a week.
! Turned PC on and BOOM.
Was so upset that I could not play BF2 for like a week.
Its on the back of some PSU's.
Certainly older ones.
For different voltage supplied in countries.
If you pick the wrong one for your domestic supply, it goes BOOM!
not sure, exactly i aint a electrical genius, but few month ago we had a dodgey summat wire in the garden underground and the house had no electric for days and the 1 street light outside, but me dad knows more than me and hes the one whos just got the generator going when i posted this, said iv buggerd summat up lol. the plug socket in the wall went black aswell, its this old crappy house with turd wireing, all this from a psu blowing up, god help me if my rig ever goes boom, touch wood it dont!
No man, FLAMES!
Explosions and birds falling out the skies!
I heard two million fish died somewhere as a direct result. Also NORAD went to DEFCON 1 as the heat sig resembled that of a ICBM launch in downtown Halifax....
loltage switch engaged !!
He can't it has been confiscated by the IAEA for forensic analysis.
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can you make me that same build op? I wanna do that
