April 26, 2004

Hot, hot, HOT!

Well it's been getting a bit warm recently, and I guess my computer didn't like it too much... Late this evening I was happily working away when the PSU suddenly decided to kill the power. Since the case was already open (to keep the CPU a bit cooler) we had a quick look to find the PSU was insanely hot... way above what it should be... so we let it cool down and tried to turn it back on with no luck. It appears that the fan may have failed, but there was no thermal cut-out so it just melted itself (just outside the 2yr guarantee)... Also it turns out the stated 300W model only achieved 200W in recent tests, which is not enough - so all I can say is never buy a Task PSU!

A fancy new 400W Skyhawk model with automatic fan control and thermal cut-out was on its way within an hour ;-)
Posted by Antony on April 26, 2004 01:44 AM | TrackBack
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