Blown Power Supplies

Can a CPU burn out a power supply? I got a case MB/CPU from a person who went thur 2 power supplies and was sick of dealing with the problem. This week I took the CPU out and put it in another working system. About 8 hrs later the PS was dead.

 

Your cpu is certanly not the problem. i never seen a cpu blowing up a power supply, you would be the first.
If you post system specs here it would be a big help to determine the cause

 

I can certainly recommend NOT buying a cheap power supply . . . last March (a date that haunts me) I was happily building my new system - I bought the Intel D865GBFL board, the P4 3Eghz processor, a GB of 400mhz ram . . . the works. I blew my entire budget on this build. The case I purchased came without a power supply, but I decided to use a 450W P4 ATX supply I had from a previous P3 build (brand "Real PC Power Titanium series" - it had 3 fans and they were adjustable, and I got it cheap). It had worked flawlessly for the P3 system since 11/2003, so after checking the requirements of my new components I opted to re-use this PS. All went well till about midway in loading the O.S. (XP pro) . . . then it blew up. I'm speaking in literal terms here . . . it did blow up! Not like a bomb, but I heard a loud POP and a "ting, ting" sound - and the system just died. A forensic examination revealed a component in the PS blew and the "ting ting" sound I heard was half the shell of this component hitting the exhaust fans in the PS. No idea why this happened . . . the PS met all the requirements. Bad day.

 

The power supply blew a capacitor.

If in your old P3 system, you where not using this power supply to its full potential, then when you did need all that power that it could have, or should have been able to provide, it was not able too.

I only buy good, brand name power supplies. Antec, Enermax. There are a couple of others.

Maximum PC magazine did a torture test on some power supplies a while back. They may still have the article up that you can read. It is good reading for all that want to build systems, that will require a lot of power.

Navy-ATCS
HAFND

 

I'll do that. Thanks.

 

The exploding psu is no myth,you should see the tekky I now when someone returns a duff psu,"Picture someone lighting a firework"

In some cases not only has the psu exploded but it has taken the case with it,like sticking a firecracker into tin can.lol