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Had a weird week where every single PC came in with power supply issues
Last Wednesday alone I had three different desktops come into the shop all with the same symptoms - random shutdowns, won't boot, or smells like burning. One was an old HP office PC where the fan in the PSU seized up and melted half the wires inside. Customer said it was making a grinding noise for two weeks before it died lol. Then Friday a guy brought in a gaming rig he built himself, Corsair unit just completely dead after 6 months. No pop or smoke, just nothing. Has anyone else ever gone through a stretch where it's all the same component failing?
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fiona50229d ago
Man, tell me about it. I swear there's some kind of gremlin in the supply chain that messes with timing. Totally hear you on the furnace thing @troyjackson, same vibe. It's like when you get three dead mice in one week and then nothing for a year, just the universe being weird. At least with PSUs you can swap 'em out and be done, unlike that poor HP office PC with the melted wires. Fun times.
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troyjackson29d ago
Funny how that happens... it's like when you buy a certain car and suddenly you see them everywhere. Probably just bad luck with a specific batch or something, but it gets in your head after a while. Reminds me of how last winter every third person I knew had their furnace die in the same week - same with fridge compressors going out in the summer. Some stuff just seems to fail in waves, maybe from manufacturing runs or supply chain stuff. Either way, I'd take PSUs over water damage any day, at least those are a quick swap.
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