How to fry all IDE devices!

[Guest]

A lesson perhaps, but I'd welcome comment from anyone with similar experience. I recently upped my cpu from a Duron 800 to TB1200. The home-built system (MSI m/b) has (had!) 2 HDD's, a CDRW and a DVD drive, plus Radeon, DV card, and S/blaster. The case is a £50 ($70?) with what I thought was a reasonable psu: 300w Pro-V MPT 301 PMC1010 (???). It claims to have "low noise temperature controller" so I was quite happy that when running intensive 3D the psu fan would speed up after a while. This week the machine froze and wouldn't reset or power-down, so I had to flip the mains sw on the psu off. Everything came back up normally, but the same thing happened the next day and when I turned the mains back on (at the psu) POW! momentary hdd activity then death. Every IDE device and the s/blaster is zapped (HDD's not recognised as being present, CDRW dead, DVD smoking). Presumably this psu (now behaving quite normally again) has sent out some horrendous surge at switch on. I know that the good psu's discussed here include overvoltage protection....don't they all? sob.....

 

[SmileyBri]

Serious OUCH! I have been pondering my always relativly cheap Case/PS purchases. I now have more reason to go with a better quality PS.

I think this post moves me past a stranger, no?

<font color=red><i>such madness</i></font color=red>

 

[Mavicator]

You wouldn't put low-octane Arco gasoline in a Ferarri now would you? Same thing applies to power supplied to high-performance electronics. You won't find a cheap power supply in an expensive high-powered sound amplifier either. It's all about quality of input to get proper output!

-- Ah sh*t! sys64738 --

 

[Mavicator]

By the way, sorry to hear about the computer! Ouch!

-- Ah sh*t! sys64738 --

 

[FatBurger]

I think this post moves me past a stranger, no?

You're right, it doesn't

<font color=green>I post so you don't have to!
9/11 - RIP</font color=green>

 

[hammerhead]

Having spent some years repairing PC's in the workshop and in the field, I've never seen a PSU cause a surge that fried so many components, and then work again afterward.

Quite ironic really, you still have a working component but you'll never trust it to power a PC again!