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 Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:07 am Post subject: so i noticed 230v and 115v switch on back of my pc |
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| it was set on 230v and i changed it to 115v. i heard explosion inside power supply while PC was off but still plugged. So is now my whole PC burned or just power suply? And can i try to turn it on?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:09 am Post subject: |
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With luck only the power supply died (blown fuse)
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:20 am Post subject: |
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| i really dont know why did i did that. my PC couldn't boot up and i tried switching it to lower voltage.
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Dark Byte
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 5:26 am Post subject: |
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That switch was to tell the PSU what kind of voltage it should expect
So when you changed it to 115v it expected 115v but got 230, so it got fried
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| Dark Byte wrote: | That switch was to tell the PSU what kind of voltage it should expect
So when you changed it to 115v it expected 115v but got 230, so it got fried |
i thought it has current transformer.
and about reason why my PC couldnt boot in first place:
is 350W enought for radeon 5550 and intel pentium 2.93 dual core?
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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You just killed the power supply  ,anyway i recommend you a 400W new supply, and NEVER change the voltage switch, and make sure it's set to 230V.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| TsTg wrote: | | You just killed the power supply ,anyway i recommend you a 400W new supply, and NEVER change the voltage switch, and make sure it's set to 230V. |
like they couldn't make it harder to switch voltages or at least put some warning sign
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| Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2013 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| They expect people to be smarter than they are, wasn't there, a few years ago, a lawsuit against McDonald's because somebody didn't put a lid on their coffee and drove with it in their lap and shockingly got burned.
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| SinStar87 wrote: | | They expect people to be smarter than they are, wasn't there, a few years ago, a lawsuit against McDonald's because somebody didn't put a lid on their coffee and drove with it in their lap and shockingly got burned. |
Theres a movie documentary on that called 'Hot Coffee', the lady was an old woman that got severely burned because the coffee was WELL over the temperature that it was actually supposed to be heated to, and all the woman wanted was for a billion dollar company to only pay her hospital bill, but they refused.
Im sure in his power supply manual it explains what it does, so he should have read that before changing it
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| Brolock wrote: | | SinStar87 wrote: | | They expect people to be smarter than they are, wasn't there, a few years ago, a lawsuit against McDonald's because somebody didn't put a lid on their coffee and drove with it in their lap and shockingly got burned. |
Theres a movie documentary on that called 'Hot Coffee', the lady was an old woman that got severely burned because the coffee was WELL over the temperature that it was actually supposed to be heated to, and all the woman wanted was for a billion dollar company to only pay her hospital bill, but they refused.
Im sure in his power supply manual it explains what it does, so he should have read that before changing it |
i know what it means....
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