If Your Computer Smells of Smoke
A long standing client brought his non-booting desktop computer in yesterday.
The computer, the client explained 'been smelling of smoke for a while" but now it refused to boot.
A quick test confirmed the computer repair engineer's initial diagnosis that the power supply had failed.
However we were not prepared for the extent of the PSU failure which only became clear when we started the strip down / removal process.
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| A Fried PSU |
Look closer:
The SATA channel has been melted down to the bare wire!!
We would have expected the other protection mechanisms to have been tripped long before this level of damage occurred. We are not fire experts but we honestly believe that this was very very close to starting a domestic fire.
The client was very lucky as his computer is now running perfectly and we suggested that he bought a lottery ticket as his luck is clearly in!
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