[CLUE-Tech] power supply fried my motherboard

[Timothy C. Klein]

In all reality, the 350W is probably enough, but for me (*very* similar
setup), I went with the 430W Enermax.  It is a wonderful powersupply.
BTW, I used to have some no name 300W ps, that was AMD certified for the
Athlon.  But once it was replaced, a lot of system flakiness went away.

Tim

* Jeffrey Greer (cleaner at singlesconnection.org) wrote:
> 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.
> 
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