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Are you taking the pee?!?!!?. Your dad put that together and put a pissy little 420watt PSU in it!! . I hope he doesn't to it for a living or he wouldn't be making money :nerner:.
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he's actually a electrician, and has been for about 35 years. in his defence, the invoice actually says it's a 600W PSU, so i have no idea what the hell has happened there. but on the PSU case it self it does say 420.. in very very small, anti-old people text
i don't suppose that CCL place have any of this new fanlged PSU your on about? I planned on goin and picking one up today cos I kinda need it back in action.. i have work to do
I dont understand resetting the bios - I can't think of a single bios setting that would cause the PSU to blow a 13am fuse in the plug? Have I missed something?
You can persuade the CPU and RAM to take a higher voltage than they should by changing certain settings (though I was lead to believe they had become more idiot proof!)
My mobo lets me put 3.3 volts through the v-core on the processor when its norminal voltage is 1.3v!!
Mine comes up with a pre-BIOS voltage warning if anything is out by a large figure and wont let you boot without checking through the BIOS first. The most I've seen was 5.4V into a 1.3V core; it did not survive intact
Get the hoover out and clean out any dust that has accumulated over the components. I think dust and other bits of grot may conduct electricity. If I'm wrong though, at least you will have a cleaner computer.
Just took the mobo, cpu and ram back to the shop as one peice, they said they'd take it apart and test the components individually to pin point the problem.
One thing I did try was plugigng the usual 24 pin main power in to the mb, but not plugging in the 4 pin power for 'cpu_1'. Weird, but it doesn't blow the fuse- lights come on but nothing actually happens.
It's all under warranty anyway