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Shuttle AN35N-Ultra 400 NVIDIA nForce2 Motherboard
Athlon XP 2000+ Thoroughbred 266MHz FSB
pqi POWER Series 512MB 184-Pin DDR 400 SDRAM
AOpen Geforce MX4000 64MB DDR AGP Video Card
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive
Hitachi-LG 48x IDE CD-ROM Drive
Artec Black 52x24x52 CDRW & 16x DVD-ROM IDE Drive
Generic 3 year old floppy drive
WinXp Professional
I've gone through three power supplies in two months. Symptoms are the
same each time. I smell a burning electronics/ozone smell and the pc
shuts down. When I try to power it back on, the cpu fan spins for
about half a second then stops. The power light on the motherboard
remains lit. The first supply, a Powermax LP-8800D 400-watt that came
with my case, lasted about 3 months. The second, an A-Power 450-Watt
ATX Dual Fan Power Supply which I bought for $14.50 as a stop gap
measure, lasted 3 days. The third one, a Powmax Assasin 500-Watt
supply, lasted about a week. Granted, these were all low quality power
supplies, but I figure the Powmax Assasin should have lasted longer
than a week. I'm not overclocking, and don't use any USB peripherals
on this PC. Is there an easy way to test my hardware to be sure a
short or other problem isn't causing my system to draw more power than
it should? Anyone else having a similar problem
Thanks,
Monty
Athlon XP 2000+ Thoroughbred 266MHz FSB
pqi POWER Series 512MB 184-Pin DDR 400 SDRAM
AOpen Geforce MX4000 64MB DDR AGP Video Card
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive
Hitachi-LG 48x IDE CD-ROM Drive
Artec Black 52x24x52 CDRW & 16x DVD-ROM IDE Drive
Generic 3 year old floppy drive
WinXp Professional
I've gone through three power supplies in two months. Symptoms are the
same each time. I smell a burning electronics/ozone smell and the pc
shuts down. When I try to power it back on, the cpu fan spins for
about half a second then stops. The power light on the motherboard
remains lit. The first supply, a Powermax LP-8800D 400-watt that came
with my case, lasted about 3 months. The second, an A-Power 450-Watt
ATX Dual Fan Power Supply which I bought for $14.50 as a stop gap
measure, lasted 3 days. The third one, a Powmax Assasin 500-Watt
supply, lasted about a week. Granted, these were all low quality power
supplies, but I figure the Powmax Assasin should have lasted longer
than a week. I'm not overclocking, and don't use any USB peripherals
on this PC. Is there an easy way to test my hardware to be sure a
short or other problem isn't causing my system to draw more power than
it should? Anyone else having a similar problem
Thanks,
Monty