uh oh :(

[mdroth]

Hey all,
I booted up yesterday and got a strange message. "cpu failed test." i googled and found that some ASUS boards have problems with the heatsinks that pull away from the processor and cause this error. well I disconnected everything and pulled the tower out and played with the heatsink a bit. (mostly just pushing it down) and tested- work perfectly.

Now the bad news.

At some point I must have hit the switch on my power supply to off. I was in the other room and heard a loud POP!!! and that was that.
Pulled everything out and touched the PS and Burned myself pretty good. Set the PS on the rug and the rug started smoking !!

My question is- think anything else was damaged? I was planing on going out and getting a new PS tonight, but am unsure if there is anything more wrong. Will hooking everything up to a new PS be cool? I am guessing there is only one way to find out Any thoughts?

thanks
mike

[Bill in SD, CA]

Originally posted by mdroth
I am guessing there is only one way to find out mike

Took the words right out of my mouth.



Although that catastrophic of a failure doesn't bode well IMO.

Bill

[twiztidtruckie]

if you want a spare psu for testing i can give ya one for the price of shipping. Deer 250 watt psu. See my fs/ft thread...I dont need to make any money on it, and would like to help ya out. PM me and well work out shipping if ya want.

Truckie

[mdroth]

Truckie,
thanks for the offer- I just bummed a ps off a friend here at work. Just cross yer fingers for me and hope that is all it is . if not i'm sure i'll be hitting up alot of the F/S F/t threads

thanks for the offer

mike

[Bovon]

Originally posted by mdroth
At some point I must have hit the switch on my power supply to off. I was in the other room and heard a loud POP!!! and that was that.

I may need to brew another pot of coffee (or something) because I am definately missing something.

If the power switch was off (accidentally or otherwise) how in the he** could it have come on by itself and caused all of this?....

[mdroth]

sorry bovon
I meant that I had bumped the FAN switch to off.

[twiztidtruckie]

NP MdRoth...

If you ever need it im sure it will be here for a while...havent had a single hit on it yet, and cant even give it away...lol.

Oh well,

Good Luck!!!

Truckie

[mdroth]

New PSU and i am all set. boots fine and everything is good.

whew $100 mistake instead of 100'S.

AND REMEMBER ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT psu'S FROM EXPLODING.!

mike

[Bill in SD, CA]

Bill

[Beemer]

A switch on your PSU? Why is there a on/off switch on a PSU? I have a variable fan control knob but there are 2 fans on my PSU.

Cheers!