So I shut off my computer last night to do some hardware changes and literally as soon as it shut off, the power supply dropped dead. I noticed the blue led on the motherboard (indicating 5VSB) went off when it shut off.
Ive had this in this computer running pretty much 24/7 since January 2010. I recently passed 50k hours on it (according to hard drive timers. those are probably not accurate).
So I checked and it was dead so I pulled it and cracked it open. I had remembered reading a review of this power supply where they noted the mini-board which supplies 5VSB. At first I thought just I had no 5VSB. I even went as far as pulling the caps and rectifier off the miniboard to test them. It was good. The rectifier was. The caps are LTec...soo probably not. They won't be going back on if I fix it, anyway.
It does have one LTec with a popped top, but its on the 12V output. The 3.3 and 5V are VRM and have poly caps on the output.
Anyway, shortly after I took the miniboard apart I determined the fuse was actually blown on the mainboard so now Im trying to hunt down what blew up. Any ideas which direction too pursue?
Ive had this in this computer running pretty much 24/7 since January 2010. I recently passed 50k hours on it (according to hard drive timers. those are probably not accurate).
So I checked and it was dead so I pulled it and cracked it open. I had remembered reading a review of this power supply where they noted the mini-board which supplies 5VSB. At first I thought just I had no 5VSB. I even went as far as pulling the caps and rectifier off the miniboard to test them. It was good. The rectifier was. The caps are LTec...soo probably not. They won't be going back on if I fix it, anyway.
It does have one LTec with a popped top, but its on the 12V output. The 3.3 and 5V are VRM and have poly caps on the output.
Anyway, shortly after I took the miniboard apart I determined the fuse was actually blown on the mainboard so now Im trying to hunt down what blew up. Any ideas which direction too pursue?
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