I've never experienced this problem before, but here goes.
I was working with my computer normally. Suddenly, I heard a loud snapping kind of sound and the whole system went dead. I immediatly turned all the switches off and pulled all the plugs.
As I was doing so, there was a smell of what I guess I could describe as burning electronic components.
I opened up the case and touched the side of the power supply. It was abnormally hot, or, at least I thought so.
I pulled it out and could feel heat radiating from the fan exhaust. One side of the power supply was almost too hot to touch.
Did the power supply burn out? Is this a common thing? Whether it's common or not, why did it burn out? What could have caused it?
BTW, it's a 400w power supply. There are 10 fans inside the computer. 6 of them are lighted, 4 of them are about 40mm (one is a hard drive cooler with two fans , the other is a drive-bay freezer with two fans.
Two of the lighted fans are on the video card (GeForce FX 5950 265MB DDR RAM).
The other 4 lighted fans are standard 80mm fans. Two are mounted to the processor, one blows air into the case across the processor and the last fan sucks air out of the case from the side.
I also have 2 hard drives, a floppy drive and 2 optical drives. The motherboard is a standard ATX form factor running an AMD 64XP 3200+.
There is, naturally the fan on the power supply. Did it maybe fail? Am I running too much power through the system? Should I get a higher rating power-supply?
Sorry for the length of this message but any insight would be extremely helpful.
Thanks!
Leeor...
I was working with my computer normally. Suddenly, I heard a loud snapping kind of sound and the whole system went dead. I immediatly turned all the switches off and pulled all the plugs.
As I was doing so, there was a smell of what I guess I could describe as burning electronic components.
I opened up the case and touched the side of the power supply. It was abnormally hot, or, at least I thought so.
I pulled it out and could feel heat radiating from the fan exhaust. One side of the power supply was almost too hot to touch.
Did the power supply burn out? Is this a common thing? Whether it's common or not, why did it burn out? What could have caused it?
BTW, it's a 400w power supply. There are 10 fans inside the computer. 6 of them are lighted, 4 of them are about 40mm (one is a hard drive cooler with two fans , the other is a drive-bay freezer with two fans.
Two of the lighted fans are on the video card (GeForce FX 5950 265MB DDR RAM).
The other 4 lighted fans are standard 80mm fans. Two are mounted to the processor, one blows air into the case across the processor and the last fan sucks air out of the case from the side.
I also have 2 hard drives, a floppy drive and 2 optical drives. The motherboard is a standard ATX form factor running an AMD 64XP 3200+.
There is, naturally the fan on the power supply. Did it maybe fail? Am I running too much power through the system? Should I get a higher rating power-supply?
Sorry for the length of this message but any insight would be extremely helpful.
Thanks!
Leeor...