Were these out of warranty? Antec has a long 5yr warranty period,
compared to most other brands.
Luther
On 11/1/2012 4:39 AM, John Reames wrote:
I quit buying Antec power supplies because of them; three successive power
supplies dying due to them is enough. The last one that I bought was a
Silverstone, and haven't had a whit of trouble.
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On Oct 31, 2012, at 20:42, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
wrote:
Similar deal, I had a vid card that had almost all the cheepcheepchinee
capacitors blown, replaced it and things went back to normal. It is easy to
inspect the vid card and mobo for blown capacitors, they have their caps oozing
nasty-looking foamy stuff. I had a coupla old mobos go bad too, never did
figure out what it was, easy enough to replace. Newegg had a mobo on sale a
day or two ago, cheepcheep but you want one that will take your processor. If
you got 4.5 yr out of it owes you nothing.
--R
On 10/31/12 8:33 PM, Rick Knoble wrote:
Troubleshooting hardware is a tedious process. It is easier, albeit no less
tedious if you have enough spare parts to construct another computer. My first
suspect in your instance would be the power supply. If you have a spare, swap
them out and see. If you don't have a spare, pull the old one out and have a
computer shop test it. If that tests good, disconnect all peripheral devices,
HDD's Floppy drive, DVD drive, and any other boards. If it POSTs shut it down,
and hook up devices one by one until you find the culprit. If it doesn't POST,
memory, CPU, or MOBO is suspect. Having known good memory and a known good CPU
would be a big help here. Also, inspect the MOBO and all cards for bulging or
popped capacitors. A visual inspection could be very revealing.
I had a home built computer that did the same exact thing and it turned out to
be the video card being bad. I have seen failed memory, failing hard drives,
bad floppy drives, optical drives crapping out, and failed power supply's all
cause similar problems. Memory problems can be found with a mem check program
run from a live CDROM. The only way to isolate other problems is trial and
error. Like I first stated, I would start with the power supply. It is the
first in the list of usual suspects.
Rick
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On Oct 31, 2012, at 7:08 PM, "Greg Fiorentino" <gf...@dslnorthwest.net> wrote:
OK, so my home-cobbled HTPC started acting flaky a few days ago. Sudden
reboots, BIOS date gone, changing BIOS settings uncommanded, one CMOS
checksum error. I assumed unit needed vacuuming, possible CMOS battery
failure, possible power supply failure. Vacuumed, replaced P/S with new
spare, tested CMOS battery shows 3
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