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My power supply/motherboard nightmare

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Mar 15, 20262016 views
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Last summer I bought a broken power supply (without knowing of course) and put it in my computer. Turning my box on made one of my cheaper HDDs catch fire (I believe a capacitor or resistor blew) and I thought I completely killed my system. My other 4 hard drives survived the surge (Western Digital…

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What you described to me looks like some sort of safety system in the power supply. I recommend that you disassemble whole computer and check for any burn marks on the motherboard and pretty much everything else. There could be something which cause…

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