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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:58:14 +0100, Nekar Xenos <nek### [at] gmail com>
wrote:
> The powersocket on my motherboard only has 20 pins. The new ones have 24
> pins so I'll have to see if I can get a 20pin powersupply.
The extra 4 pins are generally detachable for backwards compatibility.
> From everything I've gathered here it seems it was the power supply that
> damaged my motherboard.
Not necessarily. Some capacitors just go bad from age.
--
FE
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:51:41 +0200, "Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
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>They are normal sized. maybe I should get a soldering iron...
>
And a solder sucker. Plastic tweezers from a medical pack are useful too.
Regards
Stephen
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"Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:47b141fc@news.povray.org...
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> They are normal sized. maybe I should get a soldering iron...
>
Is worth a try. You do stand a chance of damaging the motherboard though, so
be careful.
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"Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
news:47b14382@news.povray.org...
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> From everything I've gathered here it seems it was the power supply that
> damaged my motherboard. So I'm going to try and get a new power supply
with
> lots of Watts and see if I can replace those capacitors.
The power cuts could be the cause too. Do you have a UPS for the machine? If
not, may be worth ggetting one. Cheap one is around R400. Just needs to
filter the power a bit.
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Nekar Xenos wrote:
> The powersocket on my motherboard only has 20 pins. The new ones have 24
> pins so I'll have to see if I can get a 20pin powersupply.
There are power supplies that comes with a 20/24 plug.
> From everything I've gathered here it seems it was the power supply that
> damaged my motherboard. So I'm going to try and get a new power supply with
> lots of Watts and see if I can replace those capacitors.
>
> Thanx to everyone who threw in their bit.
remember to check the micro farads and voltage of the capacitor to be as
close as possible to the original ones, if theyare a little higher (20%
at most) they're ok.
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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
> news:47b14382@news.povray.org...
>> From everything I've gathered here it seems it was the power supply that
>> damaged my motherboard. So I'm going to try and get a new power supply
> with
>> lots of Watts and see if I can replace those capacitors.
>
> The power cuts could be the cause too. Do you have a UPS for the machine? If
> not, may be worth ggetting one. Cheap one is around R400. Just needs to
> filter the power a bit.
If a UPS is to expensive a stabilizer would be good enough.
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"Saul Luizaga" <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote in message
news:47b0de3f@news.povray.org...
> pan wrote:
>> "Nekar Xenos" <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message
>> news:47ad5bd1@news.povray.org...
>>> I have a Athlon XP 2400 Socket A using the onboard 128Mb SiS
>>> graphics card and a 250W power supply.
>>>
>> Power supply. Get a new one (I reccomend Sparkle brand) of at
>> least 300W.
>> This is an easy install you can do yourself.
>>
>>
> 550W Power Supplies are common these days, don't they? unless is
> not the case in your city.
I like the 1000W ones :)
The off thge shelf pcs are underpowered .. very likely will go
bonkers after
a couple of years producing all the symptoms the OP listed as
well as others.
Yeah - bump that minimum to 450W ...
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pan wrote:
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> I like the 1000W ones :)
> The off thge shelf pcs are underpowered .. very likely will go
> bonkers after
My most powerful (2 of them) power supplys (on PC's, that is - we're not
counting Alpha/SGI -line here :p) are 300W both, without a single
problem. One is pushing my Opteron-based server with 6 harddisks and one
is pushing my Sempron-based workstation (or was - the mobo gave up).
Either computer shouldn't survive without 400+W (when listening to the
sale guys at stores) or without case fans (again, when listening to the
sale guys...). Even the ps power scale needed actually depends on the
user. AthlonXP with integrated graphics card and 1-2 HD's should be fine
with ok-conditioned 250W ps (my Opteron is worse electric drain than
AthlonXP and 300W is easily enough for
Opteron+G550+6HD+2optical+sound+nic+etc).
>
> Yeah - bump that minimum to 450W ...
>
... if you're going to upgrade your machine and think about gaming (some
beast-level 3D-GFX -card, that is) at the future. Low-energy
-electronics (especially processors) are spreading already.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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>>> Power supply. Get a new one (I reccomend Sparkle brand) of at
>>> least 300W.
>>> This is an easy install you can do yourself.
>>>
>>>
>> 550W Power Supplies are common these days, don't they? unless is
>> not the case in your city.
>
> I like the 1000W ones :)
Sucker.
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"scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote in message
news:47b4195b@news.povray.org...
>>>> Power supply. Get a new one (I reccomend Sparkle brand) of at
>>>> least 300W.
>>>> This is an easy install you can do yourself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 550W Power Supplies are common these days, don't they? unless
>>> is not the case in your city.
>>
>> I like the 1000W ones :)
>
> Sucker.
>
???
Are we having an octopoid remembrance?
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