a great MOBO crashed. Cant beleive it

[Guest]

Hi,
I am in Bangalore,INDIA.

I have AMD ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe motherboard. Along with I have ATI RADEON
9600xt, amd 2600+ BARTON PROCESSOR, 512mb ram, 15 inch monitor, 80gb
harddiskk, ATX cabinet, 500v UPS. (WinXP Prof)

I bought this PC 5 months back

last week, suddenly the display went off. I though it could be a problem
with either RAM or Display card. But, after the dealer(from whom Ihad bought
it) investigated and told me teh problem.

It was the Motherboard got affected. he also sid,. this is caused due to
Voltage Fluctuation.

Such a good motherbaord, got affected by voltage fulctuation (even with a
UPS) - I cant believe it.

Now, I am thinking of replacing the existing UPS into APC UPS. the UPS i
bought it for 2100. Since, it is cheaper than APC. I had bought that.

Initially, while buying a PC, i htough that buying anordinary UPS doesnt
differ when compared to UPS's like APC. thts the reason, i biyught it.
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My question, such a very good motherboard got affected by Voltage
Fluctuation. Earlier, I had a ZX440 motherboard. Not even a single problenm,
I had. But, with this great mobo, still I couldnt belive,. it

I would like to know the possible reasons and please let me know the
precaustions..

THANKS IN ADVANCE

 

[Michael Dauria]

Did he mean voltage fluctuation with the Power supply inside the machine?

 

[Morituri-Max]

Did he mean voltage fluctuation with the Power supply inside the machine?

Not sure.. I wonder if he had some kind of insurance with the UPS?

I just had my sisters computer get fried not too far back from a power supply
burning up..

stuff happens.

 

[Jerry]

It was the power supply in the computer itself - not the UPS. What is the
rating of the internal power supply? It should be at least 450 watts to
suport the Radeon 9600 card.

 

[Guest]

my SMPS is 350watts. UPS is 500V
is this not OK?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

That should be fine, those are just maximum ratings. Unfortunately, though,
sometimes these things just happen. You probably did nothing wrong.

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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

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