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My mentor told me to always check the power supply first, even if the symptoms seem weird, and it saved me 2 hours on a 'dead' gaming PC yesterday.
The kid said it wouldn't boot and the lights flickered, so I was ready to dive into the motherboard, but I swapped in a spare Corsair 750W unit first and it fired right up, proving the old advice right again.
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paul_taylor2111d ago
A spare Corsair 750W just sitting around? That's the real story here. My spare parts bin has a collection of questionable molex adapters and a fan from 2007. You must work in a repair shop or have a serious problem with hoarding quality hardware.
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jakejones11d ago
Questionable molex adapters" is the real treasure though. I read a forum post where a guy ran his whole mining rig off a nest of those things, looked like a fire hazard spiderweb. My old bin had a power supply that made a high pitched whine, but it outlived two newer ones. Sometimes the janky old parts have more soul than the shiny new stuff.
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matthewdixon11d ago
But is it really a "serious problem" if the hardware still works? Sounds like smart hoarding to me.
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