aargh, this is so unfair- bought a new fan about 5months ago as the old ones bearings were toast. Now, the pc turned off and for my surprise, the fan had broken in half. what makes it worse is that the PSU is fried.... using a cheap one from my case mod atm. (darn thing sounds like a jumbo jet taking off) as it was heat damage, theres no signs of burns and/or broken fuses. does anyone have any idea what part could be damaged so i could replace it? made some shots just in case...
jonnyGURU has a forum that might be better suited to picking apart power supplies and finding burned components. He is a well known power supply tester and reviews them so we don't have to make costly mistakes. http://www.jonnyguru.com/
I'd just get a new PSU - that one looks like it's pretty poor. Check out the tiny heatsinks! It's just asking for failure...
If youd had it for 5 years it had a good run and is about due for a replacement. what spec pc are you running? I would suspect that unless you have a lot of electronics knowledge it could be anyone (or multiply) componets and could even have track damage. My frist bet would be the voltage regulators but the problem is as they died they could have sent power surges to over compents and fried them too.
1,3ghz amd, 32mb geforce2, 40gb hdd. 768ram... really need an upgrade within a year(really sucks when rendering or doing large pieces in photoshop )... thats why i didnt want to buy new parts for it. voltage regulators were my guess to, after all, thats what the heatsinks are for. those thingies also broke on my ccd inverter when i messed up the wires, atleast that was a real cheap and easy fix
Can't really see anything except the cap between the orange and yellow wire in the top right looks in the picture like it may have split.
