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Unbelievable, 'sod's law' - power supply blows
I've had assistance here lately with my Deskpro EN SFF 886. I had
been ignoring a sound like the hard drive switching itself on and off for a little while now and tonight it sems the power supply has blown. There was a small pop and a smell of burning and the green light's out for good, with a fuse change in the plug doing nothing. I can see a new supply will cost more than the machine, and there are no used ones on ebay at the moment that fit. I will asks the refurbishers to replace it but they are dodgy dealers who don't answer emails and I don't expect to get anywhere. I see there are 'no user-serviceable parts' inside these power supplies - haven't they got a simple fuse in to replace? - and I've heard rightly or wrongly that it's dangerous to open power supplies. But, is is likely that the power supply blowing has taken anything out with it? Like killing the motherboard? Because I've thought of moving the hard drive, RAM, DVD rom drive and floppy drive to something else, there being a few shops a short walk away that have used and custom systems. What do you think? Should I be hopeful (I will see if they have salvaged the same power supply first). I was in the middle of giving the machine a new lease of life by installing Linux Mint 2.2 (an Ubuntu derivative from only a few years back that suited the spec very well), which looked good when viewing the live CD and would get me round the problem of not being able to use smooth fonts after much googling and experimentation, so I am peeved after getting round a few problems with this machine that it has blown. Worse, a cheque I've been waiting for for sixteen months arrived this morning and is now probably earmarked for other things... sigh. Thanks in advance for any opinions, advice, suggestions, non-malicious laughter, etc. |
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