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I turned my computer on and there was no noise at all, no lights and the smell of something burning.
I'm assuming that this is very likely to be my PSU frying so I shall be shopping for a new one. My one that fried was 400W so I guess I should replace it with another 400W one, or is it better to go for something more powerful?
Also, is there anything else to bear in mind when shopping for power supplies? And how easy are they to fit? I've fitted hard drives, ram, graphics cards, cd drives before so I'm not a complete novice, but I'm by no means an expert at putting together computers, so anything I need to bear in mind when changing that over would be grand.
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Make sure the fan side and 'fitting' side are in the same places as on your previous one. I bought a new PSU and they were arranged differently to the one I was replacing, meaning I had to have the casing open with the PSU sitting on top of it, which wasn't a particularly elegant set up.
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They're pretty easy to fit - you'll have to disconnect some small 4-pin plugs from the back of your hard disk(s), CD/DVD drive(s), and possibly graphics card, and one large one from the motherboard. Once everything's unplugged, undo the four screws that attach the PSU to the case and slide it out. Screw the new PSU in and plug its cables in to the bits mentioned above. Five minutes max.
Learn from my mistakes and avoid cheapo value brands (like ebuyer's £5.99 wonder). I can't actually remember which the good brands are, but I think Antecs are okay. You should expect to pay £30+.
Oh and 400W on the side of the box doesn't actually mean it's a true 400W PSU. It's the same sort of marketing as used on crappy stereos in Dixons - 1200W BASS POWER the stickers announce, but it's some sort of theoretical combined peak output than means nothing in the real world.
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Excellent. I shall take my old one out after work and trek up to PC world to see what wonders they have there. Hopefully it hasn't fried my motherboard as well as dying itself.
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if it is a raccoon then be prepared for further damage to your Hard Disk Drive spindle. It contains a substance that these animals consider delicious, and you may need to visit an accredited hard drive repair specialist, in order to retrieve your treasured picture file memories.
your picture file memories might include files called ".JPG", ".GIF" and less commonly ".PNG" and ".TIF"
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I think you've confused my European computer with a North American computer Kanye. I don't think the releases over here suffer from raccoon attacks as frequently.
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Although eggs was a possibility I considered, The burning smell definitely smelt like burning metal and plastic and no cooking egg at all. There is a lot of dust inside my computer mainly because I rarely have the side on it. I'm not sure that is a healthy way to maintain a computer.
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So not only is my PSU dead, it was never even hot enough to properly cook an egg? It's lucky I never used it to cook dinner really as I could have been really ill.
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Imagine that! A probably still mostly transparent egg, covered in dust. I would have to be really hungry to eat that.
I'm really hungry right now and would love to dash off to lunch, but I just got an e-mail from someone who I was meant to be meeting at 11 and I completely forgot to turn up as I was busy so now I need him to e-mail back to let me know if he's free at all today before i can go anywhere. The perils of modern day life!
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You'll all be relieved to hear that he e-mailed me back and was fine with me going to meet him. On the way back from that I got a jacket potato with chilli for £1.88. It was pretty good.
I have 2 1/2 hours left of work and apparently people are coming over tonight which is going to cut into my computer fixing or playing civ or just sitting around in my pants time.
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I'll be spending this evening quietly celebrating last nights' Philadelphia Phillies victory. Possibly in a pair of CiH's pants.
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I actually watched some of that game last night, as I was up at a silly hour o'clock refusing to go to bed.
Earlier in the evening I had been in Sheffield watching Level 42 play. We had free tickets, so, er, y'know, what the hell. It was good fun. Mark King's bass is so bling it has LED's embedded in the frets.
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I have left over Thai green curry for lunch. I’m really looking forward to it, but there are some people having a meeting in the lunch room at the moment.
Tonight I have set aside as my sitting around in my pants night, but like an idiot I have miss-timed this and have just sent back all my lovefilm discs! So I will have to think of something else to do while sitting around in my pants.
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Now I am only married part time, I spend a lot of time sitting round in my pants. Of late, my sitting round in my pants time has involved reading a lot of PG Wodehouse, which I sincerely recommend you do, Abby, if you find yourself short of pants sitting based entertainment this evening.
I had a brie and tomato wrap for lunch, and a bag of crisps. Neither delivered on their fatty joyous promise, and now I feel somewhat leaden and pot bellied.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: Better/Worse than the original?
better control system, but apart from that, after spending about six or seven hours with it, I'm still only messing about with the early animals, almost all of which are from the original game.
Some other additional features, such as an element where you can place pinatas into competitive mini games, aren't making much sense to me yet.
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quote: Oversocialization can lead to low self-esteem, a sense of powerlessness, defeatism, guilt, etc. One of the most important means by which our society socializes children is by making them feel ashamed of behavior or speech that is contrary to society's expectations. If this is overdone, or if a particular child is especially susceptible to such feelings, he ends by feeling ashamed of himself. Moreover the thought and the behavior of the oversocialized person are more restricted by society's expectations than are those of the lightly socialized person. The majority of people engage in a significant amount of naughty behavior. They lie, they commit petty thefts, they break traffic laws, they goof off at work, they hate someone, they say spiteful things or they use some underhanded trick to get ahead of the other guy. The oversocialized person cannot do these things, or if he does do them he generates in himself a sense of shame and self-hatred. The oversocialized person cannot even experience, without guilt, thoughts or feelings that are contrary to the accepted morality; he cannot think "unclean" thoughts. And socialization is not just a matter of morality; we are socialized to conform to many norms of behavior that do not fall under the heading of morality. Thus the oversocialized person is kept on a psychological leash and spends his life running on rails that society has laid down for him. In many oversocialized people this results in a sense of constraint and powerlessness that can be a severe hardship. We suggest that oversocialization is among the more serious cruelties that human beings inflict on one another.
I'm preparing to lead an anti-cybernetics revolt.
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I think I may be oversocialised, which explains my constant terror that I may say or do something that upsets someone else.
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I'm only married at the weekends now, Cherry-boy. In the week I live the life of the decadent spinster of the parish.
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Earlier in the evening I had been in Sheffield watching Level 42 play. We had free tickets, so, er, y'know, what the hell. It was good fun. Mark King's bass is so bling it has LED's embedded in the frets.
First proper gig I ever went to was Level 42, and bloody good it was too. And I've just seen they are touring Holland in February next year - I may well have to go along!
Olympus E-420 with a pancake 25mm (50mm equiv) prime lens. Super dinky small and the nearest thing to my old OM-10, and which takes my old Zuiko 50mm (which now becomes a 100mm) f/1.8 lens.
It's the smallest DSLR out there, and with the pancake has been called a street-shooter's dream. I'm still getting to grips with it, and it's my first digital SLR so I can't really compare, but I'm very, very happy with it.
Have also been using Lightroom 2, which is having more of an effect on my photos than the camera, I reckon. It's fucking ace, and has retouching tools, which Lightroom 1 didn't.
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