Hi all,
Looks like I've managed to fry my PSU. I bought a 22" Iiyama CRT off ebay a few months ago but when it arrived the colour purity was way out. I was due to be going down to the tip today, so I thought before I dumped it I'd whip the back off and have a quick play with the magnets on the back of the tube- I recently more or less fixed up an old telly that hed been dropped the same way, so I thought it was worth a go. Anyway, I downloaded a test pattern on my main comp, resized it to 1600x1200, then shut down and pulled all the wires out of the back so that I could carry it to the next room. I didn't bother hitting the power off switch on the PSU- that's never caused me any problems in the past. But, in the next room, the computer was completely dead; the green LED on my Asus mobo was just blinking rapidly. I unplugged all the components one by one- no joy at all. Eventually I managed to find the PSU tester that scan sent me as a freeby a while ago (quite possibly with the PSU, ironically) and plugged it in. It buzzed loudly and the 5V and Gnd lights didn't come on. After about 10 seconds they flickered into life and the PSU fan spun up, very reluctantly. The -5V light didn't light up but IIRC that's not part of the ATX spec any more? Plugged it back into the mobo- still nothing. I think it's dead.
It's an FSP 700-80GLN, bought from Scan's Today Only about 14 months ago. I'm not impressed with it, even if I should have switched it off before unplugging. So- can anyone recommend me a decent but affordable PSU? Currently I'm running a 45nm Core2Duo at 3.8GHz and a 4830, one HD, one optical drive, so really not a power user. I'm not bothered about modular or any of that, don't care about tucking away excess cables. However, on the off chance that I snap up a bargain 5850 or whatever in a year's time when the next generation is out, I wouldn't mind having enouugh juice and enough 8-pin and 6-pin PCIE power sockets for that (and maybe an upgrade to quad core at some point). I'm thinking a true 550-700W should be plenty for a couple of years?
I see there's a good selection of PSUs on again today:
http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx
....and I'm not going to hold it against Scan, though equally I'll buy from any reasonably reputable company. Can anyone recommend me a decent PSU? Budget's as little as possible really, under £50 ideally though I'll go to £60-70 if it's worth it. Quick replies appreciated, I wouldn't mind getting it ordered before COP today, as it's annoying not having my good computer working (posting from my old Athlon XP that's plugged into the telly downstairs).
TIA.