[LUNI] OT: Question about power supply

Craig Van Tassle craig at codestorm.org
Thu Oct 5 10:21:15 CDT 2006


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AHH, lol.

Well at least the sound stopped. (along with your entire computer!)

Hopefully you didnt fry your motherboard,cpu,ram,HDD's and CD's.

Michael Salsman wrote:
> Because I'm an idiot, that's why ...
> 
> I was attempting to figure out where a cyclic noise was coming from, and
> was attempting to see if it was either of the two hard drives, the CD or
> DVD, or the floppy ... the floppy power cable was not fully seated ...
> when I grabbed it ... I ended up pulling it off and immediately touching
> the pins again ...
> 
> By the way, in case you are wondering ... the noise stopped ...  LOL
> 
> Mike
> 
> Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> Why oh why were you messing with power to your devices with power
> ON???!!!??
> 
> And I think they are fused internally but with a fuse that will take
> out the PSU
> totaly. I'm not sure though.
> 
> Michael Salsman wrote:
>  
>>>> I inadvertently shut down my machine while messing with the power cable
>>>> to the floppy drive with the system powered up.
>>>>
>>>> I have appeared to crowbarred the power supply.  Would anyone know if
>>>> current power supplies are fused internally, before I start ripping my
>>>> system apart?  If they are not, then I expect it's a good time to start
>>>> shopping for that larger P/S that I've been thinking about.
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>     
>>

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