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    PSU ticking sound

    Recently my Antec Truepower Trio 650W PSU has developed a quiet repeating ticking sound and I'm guessing its the fan, is this something to be worried about? I don't want my PSU potentially frying all my PC components.

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    Re: PSU ticking sound

    have a look inside (i.e. peer through the fan mesh and see if you can see and wires getting in the way, if you can, then get a cable tie or somesuch and poke it out of the way

    just be careful if you use a metal object as the caps will retain some juice for a while...
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    Re: PSU ticking sound

    ...also check for a timer counting down....

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    Re: PSU ticking sound

    Hehe well I'm pretty sure it was the PSU, however today it wasn't anywhere near as audible, so I think I'll just keep an eye on it (or an ear) and hopefully it won't reoccur.

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