Hi Mike, Thanks for the positive wishes resolution wise. Your reddit link leads to a page stating my request has been blocked due to a network policy. One deeply unfortunate thing about reddit is their decision to block most, if not all third party applications and tools for reading posts there. Personally frustrating as I used to find great Harry Potter fanfiction that way! Ahem, in any case, can you summarize the wisdom for me? Cheers, Karen On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, Mike Holloway wrote:
Hi Karen,
I've never had a problem using prevailing wisdom like that which you'll find in the following Reddit link when last I built my two workhorse PCs and had to consider power supply capacity: https://old.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/o3bjbn/how_do_i_choose_a_psu/h2b2...
The situation as you describe it sounds quite stressful, wishing you a swift and effective resolution.
Mike
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On Thursday, July 18th, 2024 at 4:19 PM, Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi wise souls of computing. One of the creative problems going on with my recently built computer is that the fan in the power supply no longer works. Nor can I use the power button to actually turn off the machine anymore. When it gets too warm in fact, I must flip the switch on the supply in the back..its scary, but so is overheating.
While I am still hunting for sighted help to fix the mess my prior contact left behind..the cd rom is disconnected too, I want to plan properly for the power supply replacement. I have several, including at least one still in the box. I am quite sure that the power supply capacity is too low for the several things the machine is doing, I have three hard drives in the unit, several internal boards in use those kinds of things. Is there a guide, or rule of fun, for determine how much power capacity a supply should provide based on how much work the computer processor will be doing? With appreciation. Karen
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