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hawkeye177
06-20-2001, 09:13 PM
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Barney
06-20-2001, 09:22 PM
If the smoke comes out...

[This message has been edited by Barney (edited 06-20-2001).]
NDC
06-20-2001, 09:29 PM
You will notice that the computer will not power on. Either that your system will have frequent power downs during operation...
hawkeye177
06-20-2001, 09:30 PM
Smoke huh. Not good. What kind of damage can it do.
Barney
06-20-2001, 09:36 PM
It's bad for your lungs.
hawkeye177
06-20-2001, 09:43 PM
A computer does not have lungs Barney!!!
Damage to your computer.
Barney
06-20-2001, 09:45 PM
Oh, you mean what damage it does to your computer? Well, it obviously damages your PSU.
jad1097
06-20-2001, 10:33 PM
Barney, it's just too easy. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

V=IxR
jad1097
06-20-2001, 10:37 PM
If you do a search in the tech forum there is a great explanation of this.
hawkeye177
06-21-2001, 08:09 AM
So if there is no smoke I am fine.
acid_burn~187
06-21-2001, 09:39 AM
I'm not too sure about the smoke, never had it happen to me. But if you have a crappy supply, and your running like a 1.33 gig athlon with a GeForce 3 and like 4 7200 RPM drives and you find that the system will freeze all the itme for no reason, or just reset, or turn off randomly. It's cauz the supply isn't sufficient to supply the computer. If the comptuer is running stable, usualy it means that the supply is powerfull enough for the immediat system.

~Paul