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Episode: 2590
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Title: HPR2590: Blowing a PC Power Supply
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2590/hpr2590.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 06:15:40
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This in HP are episode 2,590 entitled, blowing a PC power supply, and in part of the series, hardware upgrades.
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It is hosted by Tony Humeca Tony H1,212, and in about 4 minutes long, and carrying a clean flag.
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The summary is just a short show on how I managed to blow the power supply on my desktop PC.
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Greetings, how can public radio listeners? This is Tony Humeca again, coming all the way from Blackpool,
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to the UK. Originally this show was going to be about some new kit that I recently bought at my favourite computer auction.
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However, as luck or bad luck should have it, I fried the power supply on my desktop machine yesterday,
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as I was setting it up again after moving back to my office.
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The PC is an HP Compact Elite 8300 macro desktop tower with an i7 third generation,
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3770 3.4 gig CPU, and since I've upgraded it, now I've 16 gig RAM at a primary 256 gig SSD.
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It's my daily driver and I've been running it for a couple of years now since I bought it at the set auction.
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It's the best PC I've ever owned. Full specifications will be in the show now.
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As I said, I was resetting up my full rig after moving it back to the office upstairs after a temporary move,
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while I had a house guest. As I was plugging in the power cable, there was a flash in the crack,
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and a few expletives from me were uttered, and sure enough, when I switched off the power at the plug and reconnected the power cable,
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and tried to power on the PC, it was dead. I was hoping it was a power supply that had blown.
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And as I had a spare, I was not particularly concerned. However, only investigation HP have done the dirty with the design of the motherboard and power supply,
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and neither a standard ATX configuration. Priority hardware strikes for this baby.
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I was lucky as a few months ago at the auction. This picked up an I3HP using the same case, so I pulled out the power supply from this and fitted it to the I7.
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Luckily, it did turn out to be the issue, and the PC sprang into life when I had the power button.
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So I'm now left with a PC that works, but another one that's useless, unless I can find a power supply to match it.
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In the next match, it's next to useless except for spares, which is probably what it'll turn out to be.
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So the lessons learned, never connect the power cable when the socket is live.
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If your plug socket doesn't have a switch to isolate it, connect the kettle end of the PC to the PC first to reduce the risk of a short, like what happened to me.
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Also, never assume that second-hand PCs are standard, with the case or motherboard format, as you may have the problem sourcing spares, if anything goes wrong, does in my case.
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Not the first PC disaster I've had over the years, and I can.
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As in this case, usually get random, but although not when I break the BIOS on a load over X201 time, trying to clear a BIOS plusword, again, I was left with a box of spares, which actually gave me very ugly.
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So that's it for this episode, and it's Tale of WoW.
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I'll actually do another episode on the recent trip to the auction, and mind you laptop shortly.
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So this is Tony Hughes, signing off for HECK Public Radio.
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For now, bye!
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