Here's a good one

[johns]

PC is running fine in the lab. Student project needs it, so I
lone it out. Student comes back and says it won't boot.
I go, and the screen is stopped at ntloader .. won't load??
Solution is obvious, right? Bad file.

Here's what really happened: The case fan was dusty,
and when the student carried the PC to another lab, the
dust shifted and stuck the fan. The stuck fan overloaded
the psupply, and dropped the 12 volt rail out of regulation.
That blew the brand new SATA drive as it was trying to
boot, and all the drives went flakey, and even the floppy
won't boot. I'm now sure its the mobo, but I start swapping
parts into a new working PC. See the SATA drive won't
boot in the new PC. RMA to Maxtor. Replace drive with
another new one, and PC still won't boot. Swap out
psupply. System boots.

A dust bunny blew case fan, SATA drive, and psupply.
About $200 damage, and 2 days troubleshoot and
reinstall. Getting out my leaf blower to go dust out
about 1200 users PCs. It NEVER stops coming.

johns

 

[spodosaurus]

PC is running fine in the lab. Student project needs it, so I
lone it out. Student comes back and says it won't boot.
I go, and the screen is stopped at ntloader .. won't load??
Solution is obvious, right? Bad file.

Here's what really happened: The case fan was dusty,
and when the student carried the PC to another lab, the
dust shifted and stuck the fan. The stuck fan overloaded
the psupply,

What a POS PSU

and dropped the 12 volt rail out of regulation.
That blew the brand new SATA drive as it was trying to
boot, and all the drives went flakey, and even the floppy
won't boot. I'm now sure its the mobo, but I start swapping
parts into a new working PC. See the SATA drive won't
boot in the new PC. RMA to Maxtor. Replace drive with
another new one, and PC still won't boot. Swap out
psupply. System boots.

A dust bunny blew case fan, SATA drive, and psupply.
About $200 damage, and 2 days troubleshoot and
reinstall. Getting out my leaf blower to go dust out
about 1200 users PCs. It NEVER stops coming.

johns

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neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[johns]

I wonder. It is an Antec 350 watt Smart Supply.

johns

 

[johns]

OOPS! I wuz wrong .... and also right ... mobo is toast too.
Up that to about $500 damage done by a dust bunny. I mean
the stupid thing was working fine for 2 years, and they
carried it down the hall, and SMOKE ! They said all they
did was plug it in ... KABLOOEY! It ( use to be ) a nice
computer too. AMD 64 3000+, Antec case, 160 gig SATA,
ATI 9800 Pro, 1 gig ddr400 .... FRIED CLYDE !

johns

 

[Simian Dyson]

PC is running fine in the lab. Student project needs it, so I
lone it out. Student comes back and says it won't boot.
I go, and the screen is stopped at ntloader .. won't load??
Solution is obvious, right? Bad file.

Here's what really happened: The case fan was dusty,
and when the student carried the PC to another lab, the
dust shifted and stuck the fan. The stuck fan overloaded
the psupply, and dropped the 12 volt rail out of regulation.
That blew the brand new SATA drive as it was trying to
boot, and all the drives went flakey, and even the floppy
won't boot. I'm now sure its the mobo, but I start swapping
parts into a new working PC. See the SATA drive won't
boot in the new PC. RMA to Maxtor. Replace drive with
another new one, and PC still won't boot. Swap out
psupply. System boots.

A dust bunny blew case fan, SATA drive, and psupply.
About $200 damage, and 2 days troubleshoot and
reinstall. Getting out my leaf blower to go dust out
about 1200 users PCs. It NEVER stops coming.

johns

Moral of that story? Blow it out, don't loan it out!

 

[Newfdog]

Moral of that story? Blow it out, don't loan it out!

Yeah.. don't blow all your money on eggheads, higher a computer support
person.

 

[johns]

Or blow it up

johns

 

[spodosaurus]

I wonder. It is an Antec 350 watt Smart Supply.

johns

Was it one of the ones that they had the bad caps in? It's about the
right vintage...

--
spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/