Hello everyone!
So I recently had problems with my Fortron Blue Storm II (JonnyGuru review: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php...=Story&reid=84).
The problem was that when I would turn on my PC, my fans would start spinning and then stop after 1 second, PC wouldn't boot up at all. Classic PSU problem I thought, and went ahead to replace my Fortron with a PSU from my brothers PC and voila - my PC works!
So I went ahead and opened my Fortron to see if I can find out what's wrong with it. What I saw were multiple very dense clusters of dust on few capacitors and transistors. Components looked good, nothing seemed burned up. There was one capacitor that was a bit inflated and another one that seemed to release the chemical, but just a bit. I thought it's not such a big deal and went ahead and cleaned that dust clusters all up, plugged my PSU back and voila – it works!
Now this is the part where idiot me destroyed the PSU, thank God I didn't get electrocuted in the process:
PSU fan sounded weird (probably because the PSU was standing upside down and fan was facing down, not the position it was designed to stand in, but idiot me didn't realize it right away) so I went ahead and took the metal case cap of the PSU with the fan attached to it WHILE PSU WAS WORKING to do something with it. Thinking about it now, idk what would I do with a spinning fan, but yeah, idiot me went ahead and did it anyway.
While I was removing the metal case cap, I accidently touched PSU heatsink with one end of the metal case cap and the rest of the big metal case with the other part of the metal case cap.
When that happened, I saw and heard a spark, after that my PSU wasn't working anymore.
Here is a picture to help you understand what happened.
So basically, I "repaired" the PSU by cleaning it from dust and then I destroyed it right away.
Here are the pictures of the capacitor that seemed a bit inflated and the one that seemed to release the chemical a bit. Important: my PSU was still working with these two in this condition before I destroyed the PSU.
More pictures of the PSU here.
Any ideas on what could have happened here and what needs replacing?
Thank you in advance!
p.s. I know, I am an idiot
So I recently had problems with my Fortron Blue Storm II (JonnyGuru review: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php...=Story&reid=84).
The problem was that when I would turn on my PC, my fans would start spinning and then stop after 1 second, PC wouldn't boot up at all. Classic PSU problem I thought, and went ahead to replace my Fortron with a PSU from my brothers PC and voila - my PC works!
So I went ahead and opened my Fortron to see if I can find out what's wrong with it. What I saw were multiple very dense clusters of dust on few capacitors and transistors. Components looked good, nothing seemed burned up. There was one capacitor that was a bit inflated and another one that seemed to release the chemical, but just a bit. I thought it's not such a big deal and went ahead and cleaned that dust clusters all up, plugged my PSU back and voila – it works!
Now this is the part where idiot me destroyed the PSU, thank God I didn't get electrocuted in the process:
PSU fan sounded weird (probably because the PSU was standing upside down and fan was facing down, not the position it was designed to stand in, but idiot me didn't realize it right away) so I went ahead and took the metal case cap of the PSU with the fan attached to it WHILE PSU WAS WORKING to do something with it. Thinking about it now, idk what would I do with a spinning fan, but yeah, idiot me went ahead and did it anyway.
While I was removing the metal case cap, I accidently touched PSU heatsink with one end of the metal case cap and the rest of the big metal case with the other part of the metal case cap.
When that happened, I saw and heard a spark, after that my PSU wasn't working anymore.
Here is a picture to help you understand what happened.
So basically, I "repaired" the PSU by cleaning it from dust and then I destroyed it right away.
Here are the pictures of the capacitor that seemed a bit inflated and the one that seemed to release the chemical a bit. Important: my PSU was still working with these two in this condition before I destroyed the PSU.
More pictures of the PSU here.
Any ideas on what could have happened here and what needs replacing?
Thank you in advance!
p.s. I know, I am an idiot
Half of the computer problems is caused by bad contacts 
. Just keep away from sinks, pipes, faucets, coaxial cables, and other (possibly) grounded objects.
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