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About an hour ago my computer locked up. I restarted then just as I typed in login password the screen when to a nice banded test screen and I smelt burning. Furious ripping out of power leads later....
I smelt around and the power supply seemed to be the worst. I went to take it out but the main power feed to the m/b was stuck after tugging I found the burnt socket you can see in the pictures.
I took apart the power supply but nothing burnt in there. I took out the motherboard and other than the two burnt plug no other damage (looked on the back of mb and examined all cards).
The computer is made up of:
Epox KHA+ motherboard
300w advance arroway powersupply
2*256 mb of crucial mem ddr 2100
2* 20gig maxtors
1* 40gig maxtor
1 * dvd/cdrw
nic
Radeon 9700 (non pro)
sb live
I was wondering if I am drawing too much power? I added the 9700 about 3-4 months ago and another hard disc. I did blow a powersupply completely with the same motherboard about a year ago but i put that down to being suspend to ram happy - i used to do it several times a day (it was new for me you see). that was with my old g400 in. The computer had locked a couple of times recently where the monitors just turn off and the keyboard froze. Restarting seemed to cure it. (that was the lockup at the beginning of this post then I had the one with the nice burning smell and pretty test card scene on both monitors which make me think its not the monitors).
The two wires that go into the power socket with is melted are red (wires not melted just the socket). SO my question - motherboard or powersuppply or both? How do I check?
thanks in advance
I smelt around and the power supply seemed to be the worst. I went to take it out but the main power feed to the m/b was stuck after tugging I found the burnt socket you can see in the pictures.
I took apart the power supply but nothing burnt in there. I took out the motherboard and other than the two burnt plug no other damage (looked on the back of mb and examined all cards).
The computer is made up of:
Epox KHA+ motherboard
300w advance arroway powersupply
2*256 mb of crucial mem ddr 2100
2* 20gig maxtors
1* 40gig maxtor
1 * dvd/cdrw
nic
Radeon 9700 (non pro)
sb live
I was wondering if I am drawing too much power? I added the 9700 about 3-4 months ago and another hard disc. I did blow a powersupply completely with the same motherboard about a year ago but i put that down to being suspend to ram happy - i used to do it several times a day (it was new for me you see). that was with my old g400 in. The computer had locked a couple of times recently where the monitors just turn off and the keyboard froze. Restarting seemed to cure it. (that was the lockup at the beginning of this post then I had the one with the nice burning smell and pretty test card scene on both monitors which make me think its not the monitors).
The two wires that go into the power socket with is melted are red (wires not melted just the socket). SO my question - motherboard or powersuppply or both? How do I check?
thanks in advance
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