I despise computers

[andrewducker]

Right, so now _my_ power supply has gone. Which means I've gone through 4 in the last month - Ed's original one, two (shite) replacement one's for Ed (who now has my old one from an old PC, happily working in it - so it's not his PC at fault) and now the one in my main machine.

It's not a good week.

So tomorrow I'm off down to either Ideal Computers or Maplin to purchase something powerful and quiet. And hopefully after that nothing will break at all...

Oh, and in other news, I've spent the evening tidying, with the help of Erin. The flat is now in habitable condition for Ed's return from London. Now if I can just keep it this way.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Have you considered that maybe your mains electricity is a bit dodgy? What about putting a cheap UPS between the mains and your PC to smooth out any nasty spikes?

[andrewducker]

Could be. But Ed's machine has been fine for months, until we put in the new graphics card - so I'm going to blame his old power supply for not coping with the new card. I'm then going to blame myself for buying the two new PSUs far too cheaply, and I'm not sure about the PSU on my machine. It's been getting slowly dodgier as time's gone by.

Could be a bad mains setup. Or could be bad luck.

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Tagan make excellent power supplies.

[andrewducker]

If I can find a supplier in Edinburgh I'm sold!

[kashandara.livejournal.com]

Have you got any sort of surge protection at all?

[andrewducker]

Yup. On my machine, and on the TV/DVD player/etc.

Not on Ed's machine, but it was fine until the new graphics card, which indicates to me that hsi PSU couldn't cope with the extra load.

[douglasbryant.livejournal.com]

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20030609/index.html

here is some info about good power supply's