Tagan 580W goes out with a BANG!

lay-z-boy

lay-z-boy

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Well today after over 2 years my tagan gave up the go.

Was powering the following:
x3210 (quad) @ 3.3ghz
4gb ram
quadro fx5600
6 hdd's in raid 0
xfi elite pro
quite a few high speed fans

its powered many other machines in its time, an X2+x1900, A64+6800u and a P4+5950U but today it decided that it had had enough. :(

I was busy on the pc with encoding in the back whilst i was doing some work on auto cad/Descartes when everything froze, I was a bit worried as this was the first time since the machine had crashed/frozen since i was testing for max stable oc with good temps. However the machine unfroze itself after about 10 seconds. Everything seemed a bit laggy after that, after about 50-60 seconds after the freeze it locked up again, a pause for 5 seconds and then BANG!!!!:eek:
yellowish goo was now on the wall and a capacitor had shot through the rear of the psu out the back, boucing off the wall and only just missing my head, this was the shortly followed by a fuzzing noise, a yellow light and smoke comming out the back (the pc had since powered off)

Shocked i opened the top of my ecplise 62 and the psu was boiling hot, i couldnt touch it it was so hot.

After a while i discconected and pulled it out, i wired up my corsair HX 520w that i had on my desk and fired it up.

All works :D:D

Thumbs up to tagan for their psu's not taking out my system on death of a power supply, you get what you pay for in a power supply!

PSU is now in the process of RMA but I'm now looking at an antec quattro 850w :)
 
Corsair 520W should cope with all that no problem. No need for a better PSU until you start looking at SLI/Xfire.
 
lay-z-boy said:
yellowish goo was now on the wall and a capacitor had shot through the rear of the psu out the back, boucing off the wall and only just missing my head, this was the shortly followed by a fuzzing noise, a yellow light and smoke comming out the back (the pc had since powered off)
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Maybe I'm the only one who takes photos of dramatic things ...
 
Another good thing about Tagan PSU's is that you should recieve a replacement within a few days, as the RMA centre is based in the UK! :) :)
 
Growlingfish said:
Maybe I'm the only one who takes photos of dramatic things ...
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So I was mean to have a camera in my hands at the ready to take photo's of my computer blowing up?

Nah, I think most peoples number one priority at the time would be to find out what is dead inside their pc. Luckily in my case nothing bar the psu was damaged.

I like the sound of the rma centre in the UK, should be a quick job :D
 
lay-z-boy said:
So I was mean to have a camera in my hands at the ready to take photo's of my computer blowing up?

Nah, I think most peoples number one priority at the time would be to find out what is dead inside their pc. Luckily in my case nothing bar the psu was damaged.

I like the sound of the rma centre in the UK, should be a quick job :D
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You were meant to be leaping through the air dodging that flying capacitor while snapping a few shots at crazy angles for arty effect!
 
lay-z-boy said:
yellowish goo was now on the wall and a capacitor had shot through the rear of the psu out the back, boucing off the wall and only just missing my head
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Wow!

Never heard anything like that before, you should have taken some pictures! (of the aftermath at least!).

I remember many years ago there were some people using high speed CD-Burners that would spin so fast the CD-Rom inside would shatter and the bits would 'explode' out the front of the drive! :eek:
 
sign of a decent PSU

yes, it died with a bang, thus failing to meet the ATX spec (cant fail with any loud or startling noise or excessive emmision of smoke etcetcetc)

no components plugged into it failed!
good psu.
 
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