[CLUE-Tech] power supply fried my motherboard

[Jeffrey Greer]

In the last two months my dual celeron with abit bp 6 mbd computer has had 
trouble powering on.  Recently it wouldn't power on at all, but the fans on 
the motherboard would work.  I thought the motherboard was bad.  I bought a 
new abit kt7a motherboard put the new system together and experienced a lot 
of flakiness as I powered the system on.  Problems in hardware seemed to be 
occuring randomly as I switched out components.  After a couple of hours of 
switching components I smelled something burning on the new computer, then 
nothing worked.  I've concluded my power supply fried my motherboard.

I have a Premier ps-atx-300sn 300w ps. (btw: I bought this locally)  I will 
never buy a cheap power supply again.  I believe power supplies are the worst 
system killers of all.  I didn't try to buy cheap power supplies.  I just 
never paid attention.

I now think I will go with an Enermax power supply.  These seem to be 
recommened by a lot of people.  I'm considering these two supplies:

http://www.mpcparts.com
Enermax 350W ATX 2.03 PS Dual Fans WHISPER QUIET EG365P-VE FC  $46.00
Enermax 430W ATX 2.03 PS Dual Fans WHISPER QUIET EG465P-VE FC  $76.00

My components will be - socket a mbd, 756mb pc100 memory, athlon xp 1600, 
7200 wd drive, 5400 maxtor drive, ati radeon all in wonder video, 
soundblaster live, nic, scsi cd burner.

Are there any compelling reason to go with the 430w supply?  Also, can I get 
any ps locally of same quality and price?

One more question.  What is the probability of my athlon xp cpu being fried 
also?  So far I've never seen a fried cpu, however I believe athlons are 
sensitive cpus.