aximbigfan

about a month back i bought an antec smart power 400watt. a few weeks later i returned it becouse of caps bulging and leaking. i got a new one thinking that the other oen was just defective, guess what, today the caps are leaking. antec sucks, i will never buy psus from them again. :realmad:


chris

athlonduke

they are normally pretty good..i've used them for years.

perhaps a bad lot? what model specifically were they?

mikeyp

ive never heard anything like this before ABF IS RETARDED

smicael

I've one in my computer and i've got no problem. Bad batch?

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mikeyp

my dad has had 2 difrent ones, no problems

control

ABF, sorry to hear about your troubles. However, congratulations on making a post I could understand on the first read.:approve: I'm not making fun of you; I just really appreciate it when people spend the little extra time to use reasonable spelling and grammar and I don't have to work too hard trying to understand what they're saying.:)

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cbs01

You seem to have bad luck ABF. In all my years dealing with computers, I've ever seen a power supply do those kind of things. Do you use any type of surge suppression or UPS. If you have bad power coming into you house, with a lot of spikes and brownouts, this might be what is causings all your power supply and other hardware problems.

Also, just as a safety note to others, be careful when opening a power supply. There is enough energy stored in some of those capacitors to do some real harm to yourself.

aximbigfan

i have dual surge suppression.
the spacific model num was sp400. no revions numbers that i could find. i am going to try a thermaltake (tt) and see what happen. i never had problems with the stock psu that came with my case (this is a custom bult pc) ...

chris

Rice Lover

I've used them for years too. have a Antec Smartpower 350W in my comp and it's been cranking for a year now. But personally, I have not been that impressed, I just don't think it puts out 350W. Buy an Antec Truepower and you'll have better luck

star882

Rewire the fans directly to 12v. It seems like the thermal engineers at Antec don't really know what they're doing.

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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.

If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.

kulnet

knock on wood, i haven't had any trouble with my thermaltake.