Comment Fried *every* component except.. (Score 1) 1352
I used to run a computer shop several years ago. ('99)
We had a customer bring in his PC that was 2 weeks out of warranty.
The Power Supply had died, and it wouldn't boot.
On closer examination, it turned out that a capacitor had blown it's head, inside the PS, surging the rest of the systems. (no surge protector could protect this!).
It took out (literally frying)
-Motherboard
-2 sticks of 32meg SDRAM
-Hard Drive
-Floppy
-CDROM
-Soundcard (the main AWE64 chip was bubbled)
-Network Card
Customer was pretty pissed off, (2 weeks out of warranty!), and we built him a whole new PC, at our cost price, to keep him happy. (and naturally, it hadn't ever backed up his data)
So after building a whole new PC, he took the box home. Calls back in 20 minutes: it still isn't working!
Turns out that it also killed the Mouse and Keyboard at home!
The ONLY part that survived, was the Pentium II - 266 CPU.. good ol' Slot1, in a big black cartridge!
That CPU later formed part of a dual-cpu server, that is running to this day! (hosting my website! :)
RB
We had a customer bring in his PC that was 2 weeks out of warranty.
The Power Supply had died, and it wouldn't boot.
On closer examination, it turned out that a capacitor had blown it's head, inside the PS, surging the rest of the systems. (no surge protector could protect this!).
It took out (literally frying)
-Motherboard
-2 sticks of 32meg SDRAM
-Hard Drive
-Floppy
-CDROM
-Soundcard (the main AWE64 chip was bubbled)
-Network Card
Customer was pretty pissed off, (2 weeks out of warranty!), and we built him a whole new PC, at our cost price, to keep him happy. (and naturally, it hadn't ever backed up his data)
So after building a whole new PC, he took the box home. Calls back in 20 minutes: it still isn't working!
Turns out that it also killed the Mouse and Keyboard at home!
The ONLY part that survived, was the Pentium II - 266 CPU.. good ol' Slot1, in a big black cartridge!
That CPU later formed part of a dual-cpu server, that is running to this day! (hosting my website!
RB
