re: Usual giveaway is either more noise or a LOT LESS noise
Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 7:21 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve C
(276 messages posted)
In this case there was no noise at all and the smell wasn't always there indicating
the complete stoppage of the fan and thus the overheating PS. My guess is that it
was slowing down to a crawl then eventually failing altogether. And my computer did
suddenly go to the BSOD, but not shut down completely. This is the second PS I have
replaced in six months, the other being on my older (3 years old) computer. It too
smelled of electrical burning and indeed it too was the power supply fan had stopped.
I am amazed though at how much the ps fan contributes to the cooling of the case
and cpu or should I say to the contributing of HEAT to the system without the exhaust.
Either way it is a lesson well learned by all. My video card also started acting
erractic, depixilizing, breaking up, etc. So this too would have been something someone
would be puzzled by in trying to figure out whether it was the video card or what.
The only reason I stumbled upon this is that I downloaded a hardware monitoring program
for my son's computer which was shutting down and it showed his temps were okay.
(That turned out to be of all things a defective off/on button). I loaded it onto
my computer and only then did I know my temps were that high. Lesson learned, monitor
your computer. My computer came with a system monitor but I believed I disabled it
for some reason, but I remember it always showed an erratic power fan reading, going
from zero to 25000 rpm. Maybe that's why I disabled it. (duh) It was trying to tell
me something but I had read too many times about unreliable readings and undependable
sensors and chaulked it up to that. Another lesson learned I guess. In summation.....erratic
video card, overheating cpu, BSOD, shutdown, unusual voltage readings (mine was 13.8),
etc. check your power supply.
Steve C
On Saturday, May 14, 2005 at 12:11 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>Also more typically for a majority, you don't even know at first that it is heat,
>just that the PC shuts down suddenly and you don't know why. When it's a psu fan
>going bad, it's typically a bad bearing, and those make a great deal of ugly noise
>when they are dying. Of course, my contribution to the thread presupposes that
the
>user is not hearing- disabled, doesn't it?
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>Occasionally, a bearing just gradually binds the fan shaft more and more tightly,
>so it won't spin up fast enough to cool the psu, let alone to help to exhaust the
>PC's heated internal air environment.
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