Out of power again
Jun. 1st, 2010 11:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnOvershadowed by the rather large change (and physical exertion, see last weekend) of buying a house is the annoyance that my desktop computer is once again inoperable - some natural defect or the 90-degree-Fahrenheit weather last week, or a combination of the two, caused my indestructible Corsair power supply to melt. Rather, I don't see anything physically wrong with it, other than when I came back to find the computer had shut itself down the back of the machine was mildly warm - but the motherboard power light remains stubbornly unlit.
To confirm the power supply's deadness, there was a test on their site which involved connecting a paper clip from the green wire to one of the black wires on the plug that goes into the motherboard, which I thought was just asking for trouble and was possibly a way for them to keep a perfect record by quietly eliminating anyone who encountered a problem, but I tried it with no electric shocks at all and it had no visible effect. So it's now embalmed in bubble wrap and laid to rest in a coffin marked "Medium Flat Rate", and is on its way across the country where it'll hopefully be replaced by Corsair, having lasted one and a half years out of the five year warranty - less than the lifespan of the power supply that I got with the computer when I built it!
With this uptime record recently, I'm beginning to worry that I'm just going to have severe problems every few months no matter what happens, now. I can't help but remember that when I was in sixth year of school I had a Pentium 3 that never had any maintenance done to it apart from a blast from a hair dryer every now and then to get the mountains of dust out of it, and it's still working fine.
To confirm the power supply's deadness, there was a test on their site which involved connecting a paper clip from the green wire to one of the black wires on the plug that goes into the motherboard, which I thought was just asking for trouble and was possibly a way for them to keep a perfect record by quietly eliminating anyone who encountered a problem, but I tried it with no electric shocks at all and it had no visible effect. So it's now embalmed in bubble wrap and laid to rest in a coffin marked "Medium Flat Rate", and is on its way across the country where it'll hopefully be replaced by Corsair, having lasted one and a half years out of the five year warranty - less than the lifespan of the power supply that I got with the computer when I built it!
With this uptime record recently, I'm beginning to worry that I'm just going to have severe problems every few months no matter what happens, now. I can't help but remember that when I was in sixth year of school I had a Pentium 3 that never had any maintenance done to it apart from a blast from a hair dryer every now and then to get the mountains of dust out of it, and it's still working fine.
