Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

The PSU has a 5 year warranty if it fails. I figured it outweighed the fact that it was built with bad caps. Chances are though that it will fail right after the warranty expires now come to think of it.

Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

I replaced it with a brand new Corsair RM550. Rumor is that they used CapXon caps inside but with a flash light I was able to spot a large chemicon but I couldn't identify the rest. I'm just glad there was a fuse that protected my motherboard even though it's riddled with KT and WX caps.

Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame



Agreed. My brother (who studied as an electrical engineer) told me that it's possible that the varnish or coating on the windings dried/melted and it started shorting. I don't think there was a power line disturbance because I was home at the time and I didn't notice any problems with other electronics or with the lights. Also, the power supply was plugged into a surge protector....

Re: the gutless, bloated, and fried power supply hall of shame

A couple of weeks ago I've had a cheap powersupply die on me. I can't remember the model but it was a codegen and it came included with codegens 4063 case and was rated for 500W. I left my computer running one night (I tend to leave it running) and when I came back it was dead. I thought maybe a capacitor had blown but I was wrong. What it looks like is that the transformer melted and burnt inside the powersupply. Nobody heard anything when the computer died. The underside of the board was black from the intense heat....

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi, my name is Henry and I'm from Northern Ontario, Canada. I'm new here, I found this website searching google and I learnt a lot from reading one thread that I decided to join. So far it's been very informative. I'm 17, fairly new to computer hardware repair but I'm knowledgeable in general with computers. I've learnt that there is a lot of Chinese clones of high quality Japanese capacitors and my motherboard (ASUS P5B-VM SE) is riddled with them (KT and WX). It has been maybe 5 years I've had this computer almost nonstop running...