PC tower went bang - any hope?

JasX

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Basmis - by coincidence just 2 days earlier I'd started to clean up the files and get rid of the dross and was going to transfer all the photos and other stuff I wanted to keep onto a stick - there wasn't enough space on it so I left it - the irony :rolleyes:

In any case your hard drive will probably still be OK.

If you end up junking the PC take the drive out and you'll be able to hook it up to another PC and retrieve any data

esuhl

damoandclaire wrote: »

I've been building PC's for 15 years and I've never EVER spent more than 10 to 15 quid on a PSU.

Holy crap! The last few PSUs I've bought have been over £100!

Sub-£15 is truly :money::money::money::money::money:!

Samba_Pa_Ti

esuhl wrote: »

Holy crap! The last few PSUs I've bought have been over £100!

Sub-£15 is truly :money::money::money::money::money:!

same, i cant see why people run 100's of pounds worth of components on a 15 quid psu, its just a weak link in the chain.

JasX

Samba_Pa_Ti wrote: »

same, i cant see why people run 100's of pounds worth of components on a 15 quid psu, its just a weak link in the chain.

Tend to agree, tho with the one I'm currently running on could face accusations of being a tad OTT...

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/160298
http://www.enermax.co.uk/products/power-supply/revolution85.html

Its a pretty colour tho

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esuhl wrote: »

Holy crap! The last few PSUs I've bought have been over £100!

Sub-£15 is truly :money::money::money::money::money:!

I tend to hover around £60- £80.... considering the damage a poor PSU can cause I see no sense in getting cheap and nasty rubbish!


...though I do have half a dozen or so cheap PSUs in my loft from cheap cases..one even has LEDs on the fan - FTW :A

esuhl

Yeah - I'd hate to have a dodgy PSU blow up my bits (so to speak) or cause intermittent randomness.

damoandclaire

no matter how much a PSU costs, whether or not it be £15 or £100 - if it gonna go, then its gonna go and they tend to go good and proper when they do. it may or may not take bits with it - its a risk thats taken whenever you build a PC.

if i was gonna spend 100 quid on one component like that when building my PCs, i may as well not bother building them and just buy prefabricated stuff from PC world. I've been buying "cheap rubbish" PSUs for nearly 10 years and I've not had ONE go on me yet and i can't remember how many PCs i've built, but its in hundreds.

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damoandclaire wrote: »

...I've been buying "cheap rubbish" PSUs for nearly 10 years and I've not had ONE go on me yet and i can't remember how many PCs i've built, but its in hundreds.

Then you've been lucky! I have a couple of boxes in my loft which can testify to the damage caused by a PSU going, 1 had a dead motherboard and GPU, the other a very flaky CPU.

I guess I like to know that the rails are outputting the correct voltage regardless of load, that's something you just don't get with cheap PSUs.
I also like to overclock, putting even more pressure on the PSU, and demanding 'clean' power to the components

Burlesque_Babe

Just wanted to say cheers for the advice and help . I replaced the PSU today. Everything is there and it's all working fine (fingers crossed!)

Am now back on my PC - no repeated blue screen on start up and then shut down or freezing either which from reading is also a symptom of a failing PSU.

Thankyou.

damoandclaire

one of the luck ones :rotfl:

glad it all worked out.

just out of curiosity, how much did you pay for your PSU?:rolleyes: