Should I worry about this Bestec supply? I've heard a lot of bad things about them around here. This one seems solid and well built as far as weight is concerned, looks like it has cheap caps but I didn't see any bulging ones during a quick inspection. This is a smaller power supply (about 4" deep) from an HP Pavilion 7965. Should I just replace it before it kills something in the computer?
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Re: Bestec ATX-1956D from HP
Dont know about the HP one, but I see 2-3 emachines a week with dead motherboards and a bestec power supply. I have found that if I stick a new board in and do not replace the PS that the new board will fail within a week. -
Re: Bestec ATX-1956D from HP
I replaced it with another (probably cheap) power supply I had laying around. Didn't want to chance it, even though I got the system for free. It's a 1.7Ghz P4 with 512MB ram on what appears to be an OEM Asus motherboard. Also has a 32MB TNT2 M64 AGP video card. Perfect for what I need at work. Not too powerful, but better than the Celeron 1200 that I have now. Too bad the 80GB Seagate HDD is full of bad sectors
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Re: Bestec ATX-1956D from HP
most bestecs i have seen overshoot badly on +5stby
this kills the mobo.
btw that box likely has a fic au31.
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Re: Bestec ATX-1956D from HP
Can't be an AU31, it's a P4 system... I have an AU31 in one of my computers and that's a socket A. Wish I would have written down the number when I had the cover off. It's a Micro ATX board.
BTW I noticed in one of your pics on the power supply thread, you have the same ESR meter I do. One of my favorite tools
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Vizio e601i-A3 - Has Sound and Display, But No Backlight - Bad Power Supply Board or Bad LED Bulbs ?I was given this TV from my great uncle. He said it just wouldn't turn on one day out of nowhere, replaced the TV, and gave it to me to possibly fix and use for myself.
Upon bringing it home and plugging it up, it showed a standby light.
I powered it on and without a flashlight, the display showed the "V" but the lighting is very dim, but visible.
The screen seems to blackout and stay black, but with a flashlight I can see the display.
With my Playstation 4 connected via HDMI, and running a game I can hear sound.
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I have wanting to do this project for quite sometime now and I finally found a switching power supply that will work on this desoldering gun station ZD-915 that the original switching power supply took a shit and just was not worth trying to fix it because this switching power is not quite big enough to handle the heater element and the vacuum pump
One note when I tested the switching power supply and the voltage control board I noticed that this desoldering gun heat up much faster than the original switching power supply which I was really surprised by to the point that I might buy... -
I have been working on this concept for quite some time now with limited success but recently I found a switching power supply that is setup for the voltage that this soldering station needs to operate at however it also needs part of the secondary circuit from the original switching power because you need several voltage rails
I once tried to get a ZD-915 desoldering station to work on a 18 volt battery power supply but unfortunately things did not go well but I did find a work around but I might try this idea again but going at a little differently more about this another time... -
Hi all, I just need to know that, can i use SMPS type power supply to test and short circuit detection on a laptop motherboard?
I saw 95% of repair guys are using only Linear bench power supply. linear bench power supply is pricy, thats why i planned to get one SMPS supply.
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The sub developed a constant popping every couple seconds from woofer and power LED flickering with nothing but wall AC connected. Connecting an audio cable didn't change anything. It doesn't play but a second or two of audio in between the pops.
Opened it up and discovered the power supply is making a faint clicking or ticking sound.
I measured the amp's output to the woofer and it pulses up to 50mv DC to be driver. The pulses coincide with the power supply ticking/clicking.
I measured the power supply output going to the amp board and it too has this pulsing. Voltage cycles...
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