Another PSU Explodes :(

Euro_Hunter · 31 Mar 2007 at 06:27

Big.Wayne said:
Awww don't be like that, s*** happens, its a PSU, it gave you nearly two years good service and now its gone to PC Heaven. Hopefully it hasn't damaged anything else in your rig and you will most likely get it replaced under RMA.

Pain that you can't use the PC, but its always handy to have a backup PSU for situations like this (yes we all have to learn the hard way.).

I have a spare psu & the pc will not work now so I know it has done some damage just not sure what exactly as I don't have replacement parts to swap around.

KHAN · 31 Mar 2007 at 10:29

Have sent my Tagan back to nanopoint.uk the other day for rma, just stopped working all of a sudden. I emailed them and they sent me a rma number straight back with a link to a form.

Big.Wayne · 31 Mar 2007 at 14:40

Euro_Hunter said:
I have a spare psu & the pc will not work now so I know it has done some damage

Hmmm that is a possibility, the other possibility is that your spare PSU doesn't work either?

Hope the Tagan didn't damage your components, its never happened to me so far but you do read about people having stuff destroyed when a PSU goes pop. Would be suprised if a Tagan has done this though?

Phil2008 · 31 Mar 2007 at 14:58

I would say my enermax 600watt psu is due to blow sometime soon cos its 28months old now and I have my pc on 16+ hours a day.

Any idea how long on average a psu lasts??

Phil99 · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:05

speedy2004 said:
I would say my enermax 600watt psu is due to blow sometime soon cos its 28months old now and I have my pc on 16+ hours a day.

Any idea how long on average a psu lasts??

Quoted MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) for the 600W Enermax is apparently <100'000 hours @ 70% load. 16hrs a day for 28 months is <14'000 hours so it should be fine for a while yet

fail at the internets · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:22

speedy2004 said:
I would say my enermax 600watt psu is due to blow sometime soon cos its 28months old now and I have my pc on 16+ hours a day.

Any idea how long on average a psu lasts??

Mines still going strong after 6-7 years

Big.Wayne · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:41

Hornchurch said:
Mines still going strong after 6-7 years

what system is that?

Euro_Hunter · 31 Mar 2007 at 16:17

Big.Wayne said:
Hmmm that is a possibility, the other possibility is that your spare PSU doesn't work either?

Hope the Tagan didn't damage your components, its never happened to me so far but you do read about people having stuff destroyed when a PSU goes pop. Would be suprised if a Tagan has done this though?

I am pretty sure my spare psu is ok as it was part of a working system not too long ago, and power is getting to the led on the m/b but nothing else happens.