Here we go again.

[plonq]

The cartoon pretty much says it all.  This time it's my power supply that died.  I got up from my computer long enough to see atara off to her evening stint at the animal shelter last night, and when I returned my computer had powered itself off - for good, it seems.  I juggled around the wiring and ultimately unhooked everything but the video card, but it wouldn't power up.  I even tried changing power cords and outlets, but to no avail.  Finally I disconnected the power supply and hooked up an old FSP 350W supply that I was using in the spare computer.  To my relief, the system fired up on the first try.

If you've been reading my journal for awhile, you may recall that I was having some related problems back in June.  I probably should have returned the power supply for a replacement back then, but once I got everything working I decided that the problem was probably my n00b wiring, and not the power supply.  I should know by now that I know how to wire a computer.  Let's see how long this RMA return takes.  The last one (which is, ironically, the FSP supply that I'll be using in the interim) took nearly 4 months.

Comments

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

RMA'ing from Antec is usually a pretty decent process. While it takes a while they are usually good about it.

[pierrekrahn.livejournal.com]

sweet icon!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

That picture came up in a GIS query when I was looking for something else. Although the picture had nothing whatsoever to do with what I'd been searching for initially, I took one look and thought, "this has icon potential..."

[typographer.livejournal.com]

Mine just died this week. Looks like it was the boot disk...

You have my sympathies!

[plonq.livejournal.com]

Thanks. With any luck I'll have it up and running again this evening as long as the power supply didn't take anything else with it when it died. All I tried last night with the 350W supply was a "proof of concept" power-up to see if the various lights and fans would come on.

I still don't know if this replacement supply will have enough juice to run it all once I hook the drives back up, but I guess I'll know in a few hours.