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[madshot31]

Hey FBGs, I just recently moved overseas and am now in the land of 220 volts. You can see where this is going. My girlfriend in all her helpfulness, she actually was trying to be nice, decided to plug in my PC tonight while I was ordering her xbox power supply units for over here. She experienced her very first PC part sizzle sound of doom. I know we had to switch the voltage on the PSU on the back of the PC to 220v but I hadn't realized she was setting up the computers. The PC wont boot up and my guess is the power supply got fried from the extra volts. Do you guys think it could be something more? Also, how easy are PSU to replace? I have never replaced anything inside a PC but am pretty crafty with electronics in the sense of researching and tinkering enough to make things work.

 

[TheIronSheik]

Hey FBGs, I just recently moved overseas and am now in the land of 220 volts. You can see where this is going. My girlfriend in all her helpfulness, she actually was trying to be nice, decided to plug in my PC tonight while I was ordering her xbox power supply units for over here. She experienced her very first PC part sizzle sound of doom. I know we had to switch the voltage on the PSU on the back of the PC to 220v but I hadn't realized she was setting up the computers. The PC wont boot up and my guess is the power supply got fried from the extra volts. Do you guys think it could be something more? Also, how easy are PSU to replace? I have never replaced anything inside a PC but am pretty crafty with electronics in the sense of researching and tinkering enough to make things work.

WE ARE!!!

 

[Harry Manback]

It should be a pretty easy replacement...put it this way.

I've done it more than once, and haven't broke anything.

 

[madshot31]

It should be a pretty easy replacement...put it this way.

I've done it more than once, and haven't broke anything.

Good to hear. How you doing Manback?

 

[dozer]

Yeah, you can do it. It's been a while, but I remember it being one of the easer things to replace. It could be in a spot that requires you to remove a couple other components, but just take a picture or make a sketch so you can put it back together.

 

[madshot31]

If I'm buying a new power supply online do they come in different physical sizes? Would I have to watch out for anything like that, or just get the power supply amount I need?

 

[Harry Manback]

If I'm buying a new power supply online do they come in different physical sizes? Would I have to watch out for anything like that, or just get the power supply amount I need?

They do, you'll have to find one to fit your case size.

 

[Harry Manback]

It should be a pretty easy replacement...put it this way.

I've done it more than once, and haven't broke anything.

Good to hear. How you doing Manback?

Not bad! Gonna rip some Destiny in an hour or so.

 

[madshot31]

It should be a pretty easy replacement...put it this way.

I've done it more than once, and haven't broke anything.

Good to hear. How you doing Manback?

Not bad! Gonna rip some Destiny in an hour or so.

We just got the giant package from back home, now we have Dead Rising 3 here.

 

[madshot31]

Okay, I have opened up the PC and found the PSU provided power for a 24-pin ATX mainboard, 4-pin ATX mainboard, and 3 SATA cables. When looking online for a replacement I can't find any with the 4-pin ATX mainboard, but have found many with 4-Pin Peripheral connectors. Are these compatible?

 

[Bri]

Okay, I have opened up the PC and found the PSU provided power for a 24-pin ATX mainboard, 4-pin ATX mainboard, and 3 SATA cables. When looking online for a replacement I can't find any with the 4-pin ATX mainboard, but have found many with 4-Pin Peripheral connectors. Are these compatible?

First you gotta look for part number on the old and just re-order that.

If no number, is this a custom PC or a typical one like HP, Dell, Gateway etc? If the latter, look up a power supply for that model.

ETA- DIY electronics people save computer power supplies and consider them valuable. I've seen RFID doors wired with them and alarms at houses and....you might find it cheaper to order the same computer as a parts computer off ebay and take the power supply out of that.

Parts computer posts usually list bad motherboard or bad cpu which of course you don't need so who cares.

 

[Bri]

Here's a huge pic, but it'll give us something to discuss and probably best it's big

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Vp6_blown_capacitor.jpg

The black cylinders are capacitors on your motherboard. On the left, see the flat top? Those are good. On the right, see how they sort of bubble up and aren't flat? Those are bad.

That grey swirly piece....doubt that happened so we'll just ignore that.

Check your capacitors. You said you're a tinker-er so this is an easy solder job and those cost like 10-25 cents from mouser

 

[madshot31]

Okay, I have opened up the PC and found the PSU provided power for a 24-pin ATX mainboard, 4-pin ATX mainboard, and 3 SATA cables. When looking online for a replacement I can't find any with the 4-pin ATX mainboard, but have found many with 4-Pin Peripheral connectors. Are these compatible?

First you gotta look for part number on the old and just re-order that.

If no number, is this a custom PC or a typical one like HP, Dell, Gateway etc? If the latter, look up a power supply for that model.

ETA- DIY electronics people save computer power supplies and consider them valuable. I've seen RFID doors wired with them and alarms at houses and....you might find it cheaper to order the same computer as a parts computer off ebay and take the power supply out of that.

Parts computer posts usually list bad motherboard or bad cpu which of course you don't need so who cares.

I believe it is a Dell Vostro 460 Mini Tower. I am not sure beyond the Dell Vostro part because it was given to me and doesn't contain any other decals while the product key brought nothing up on there webpage. It has a 350 watt power supply that is Model # L350PD-00.

 

[madshot31]

Here's a huge pic, but it'll give us something to discuss and probably best it's big

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Vp6_blown_capacitor.jpg

The black cylinders are capacitors on your motherboard. On the left, see the flat top? Those are good. On the right, see how they sort of bubble up and aren't flat? Those are bad.

That grey swirly piece....doubt that happened so we'll just ignore that.

Check your capacitors. You said you're a tinker-er so this is an easy solder job and those cost like 10-25 cents from mouser

Capacitors look good. When it happened there was no smoke and only a very very faint wiff of electric smell when I open it up.

 

[Bri]

Okay, I have opened up the PC and found the PSU provided power for a 24-pin ATX mainboard, 4-pin ATX mainboard, and 3 SATA cables. When looking online for a replacement I can't find any with the 4-pin ATX mainboard, but have found many with 4-Pin Peripheral connectors. Are these compatible?

First you gotta look for part number on the old and just re-order that.

If no number, is this a custom PC or a typical one like HP, Dell, Gateway etc? If the latter, look up a power supply for that model.

ETA- DIY electronics people save computer power supplies and consider them valuable. I've seen RFID doors wired with them and alarms at houses and....you might find it cheaper to order the same computer as a parts computer off ebay and take the power supply out of that.

Parts computer posts usually list bad motherboard or bad cpu which of course you don't need so who cares.

I believe it is a Dell Vostro 460 Mini Tower. I am not sure beyond the Dell Vostro part because it was given to me and doesn't contain any other decals while the product key brought nothing up on there webpage. It has a 350 watt power supply that is Model # L350PD-00.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-OEM-Dell-PS-6351-4DF-RoHS-L350PD-00-9J0VD-09J0VD-350W-Power-Supply-/251502545476

 

[3C's]

As mentioned, the PS itself should have a part number on it somewhere.

 

[belljr]

PS are easy peasy. Just get one similar using the part number. Check out newwegg

 

[madshot31]

Thanks for helping guys.

 

[belljr]

Did you order one yet?

 

[madshot31]

I put in a offer on a new one on the UK ebay, since I just moved over here. I never did find a different power supply that had all the correct parts besides the original because of the damn 4-Pin ATX(aka P4), or else I could have amazoned others really easy.