Re: 3 blown Power supply's in 6 months.

The "common" middle of the road surge protector can only handle ONE/TWO
surges. After this, the surge protection does not exist!

Your power in your room/office is definiately BAD! You are going to have
problems like this forever. The only true ways to fix this are:

1) Call an electrician and have them put in an "isolated" power circuit for
your PC. (Expensive!!!)

2) Buy an line conditioning power regulator, or a UPS. These type of units
will "filter" the power so that the out-bound power is with-in the "safe"
range of the power supplies.

And, always use a 'name-brand' power supply. Antec and Enermax always use
"good" components in their PSUs and the PSUs are mostly correctly rated for
their WATTAGE. Generic PSUs are not worth the monet when the power is
"dirty".

"RobW" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ka6u71tqclh24kaekdbd9d33n1i3eb09tt@xxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all,
> I have a P.C. that keeps blowing power supply's.
> It is P4 2.4, Gigabyte GA-8IG100MK Main Board in a "whitebox" of
> unknown make.
> Low spec AGP video card
> 2 x Optical drives
> 1 x 80gig Seagate Barracuda
> The last power supply it blew was a Unicase 400W Silent power supply.
>
>
> I has been plugged into a middle of the road surge protector the whole
> time (which seems to fine.)
> This has all happened in the same house; however there hasn't been any
> other power problems.
>
> I'm thinking maybe it's the case because the problems happend when the
> unit is being switched o every time.
> Anyone else seen something like this?
> TIA
>
> Rob
>


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