Reply With Quotetake the psu out...take it to your pc shop and get a replacement based on the advice they give you.
Faulty Power Supply?
Sorry all, here I am again with another stupid question...
I have an acer aspire T300.
Over the last few months, intermittently,the thing won't power up at all. Sometimes it just clicks, the fan spins a few clicks, and it stops. Turning it on/of, pulling the power plug from wall and trying again gets it to go.Sometimes it never plays up.
Today the wife used the pc no worries, but when I came home, again wouldn't turn on...I mucked around, and around for ages, and nothing.
I figure it is the power supply on it's way out, and decide to undo the case, take it out, go to the shop tomorrow and get another.
Funny thing, with the power supply sitting atop the open cased pc, it is running again.
Do you think it is the supply?
On opening, the sticker on mine says
Model FSP200-60ATV
AC INPUT 100-127/220-230 6/3a 60/50Hz
When I try to see how much they are via ebay, and I put this into search, I see nothing like them.
What should I be looking for? One shop in Coffs said a normal p/s was $55, or it could be up to $150 if it were a 550watt thingo...
Open to all your valued suggestions please...thanks
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take the psu out...take it to your pc shop and get a replacement based on the advice they give you.
$150 for a 550Watt psu?
is it gold plated....
you dont need a $150 psu for one of those systems mate
a solid ~$60 thermaltake/coolmaster one will be fine... dont go for generic one though
pm me if you need help with one of those
Can you check the caps in it
When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all
depends on the $$$ amount you put on your life mateOriginally Posted by best4less
Can you check the caps in it
If you can't check the caps, Don't lol
When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all
just not worth messing around with psu's mate.
most people dont have the industrial tools to ground them either.
touching the wrong thing can be fatal
same with old crt tv's and monitors
pretty sure most of the techys here will agree with me on this one
My fingers will be well away...I won't dare touch it.
By the way...it's working fine....never missed a beat last night, and got home now, and it started first time again.
Fellas,
Just an update,as I believe when asking for help, and receiving advice, one has an onus to report progress.
The supply is working fine...I did remove it from the case and sat it atop the pc and it kept going...this had me intrigued. It worked like that for days solid.
I have not been "in" this pc case for aeons, the last time was about 18-24 mths ago to install a sat card and a new harddrive.
With the supply out and case open and power disconnected, I checked to see if everything inside it was seated right.
I put it back, and it is running true to form not missing a beat.
It's got me beat, but hey, it's working. Yeah, I know, having reported this, watch it throw a wobbly!!
Thanks fellas
Good on you, viewer for coming back with update.
The most annoying thing is when people ask for help, get few oppinions and vanish.
As far as your PSU goes it looks like a typical dry/cold solder joint most likely at the primary side of the PSU transformer circuitry, preventing it from starting.
If you don't have required skills and tools to check, then don't open it as was wisely advised earlier.
Sorry to say the fault will come back when you least expect it. Would be a good idea to buy a spare one and have it ready somewhere in a shed.
If/when it fails again keep in mind that some brand name machines (Acer, HP, Dell, etc) use nonstandard power supplies (I don't know if your machine is one of them as I'm not familar with that model). The connector may look like an ATX connector, but the pinout is different.
If you machine does have a nonstandard power supply connecting a standard ATX power supply will kill the motherboard and/or replacement power supply.
There's no good reason for them to do this other than to make people pay more for replacement parts.
It is much cheaper (well cheaper is relative I guess, but this is coming from someone who has repaired generic ATX supplies before because it was quicker than getting a replacement) to repair these power supplies than replace them if you know what you doing.
If you don't know what you are doing find someone who does. The filter capacitors on the primary side can hold a lethal charge even when the power cable is disconnected.
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