Dameon

It looks like my power supply has died. Again.

Amazing. I've been waiting for my old hard drives to croak -- I kept adding capacity, but who throws out a working drive? The oldest two of the four are ~4 years old and for some reason haven't died yet. When they do, I can finally toss them and free up a lot of space.

But no such luck with power supplies. This is the third to die in the past several years. (Only one of them was a direct result of my incompetence, but I didn't expect it to go down that easy )

Of these two components notorious for failure, which has given you the most trouble?

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crawforddavid2006

Ha, only 4 years on those two harddrives, thats pathetic, I've got close to 10 on some of mine , and as far as power supplies go, they're always goin bad on me.

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Eric the Red

The power supply on my friends Dell Laptop actually melted to the wall (dying in the process). I saw it myself, and you can actually see the spot on the wall where it attached to.

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crawforddavid2006

ROFLMFAO, thats great, what type of Dell laptop, i only ask because i have one and want to make sure mine wont do the same.

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Booooze

Power supply? Never failed. HDD? Never failed. Motherboard for Athlon processor, you betch ya'. Other than that, I have never had anything really die on me. I have gone threw lots of DVD burners though, and the odd small toy.

andro

I've only had a sound card and a video card die on me.

Infinite Recursion

video cards, monitors, memory, hard drives, processors, and mother boards have all died on me at one point in time or another. The last 5 years or so, I've only lost video cards, monitors, and memory. Weird things happen when you try to build clusters.

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Dell Inspiron 5100.

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PhilBon

How many Watts is your current Power Supply? Have you thought about getting a bigger one? I only ask because I know it's not when there is to much power being sucked from the power supply.

Eric the Red

PhilBon, that was actually the case.. Dell didn't supply my buddy with a proper power supply. It was a fire hazard from the beginning. I actually have the Inspiron 5150 model (the same laptop, following years model) and the power cord was upgraded from what he had.

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