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Failing Psu?

Nothingbetter2d · 2009-05-19 00:18:59

hi when i turn my pc on i get upto 10 minutes before the rcd in the fusebox trips. i have unplugged everything in my room except the pc and various bits (monitors/speakers/bband router) it used to trip once every few days but now its every ten minutes could my psu be the cause?

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19-05-2009 1:18am

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hi when i turn my pc on i get upto 10 minutes before the rcd in the fusebox trips.

i have unplugged everything in my room except the pc and various bits (monitors/speakers/bband router)

it used to trip once every few days but now its every ten minutes

could my psu be the cause?

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#2 19-05-2009 3:11am
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Yikes. Might want to swap the "kettle cord" for a replacement, those can short out to a spectacular extent - amazing what havoc a simple piece of cable can cause...

Unless you had a desperately awful PSU to start with any kind of critical short would trigger its own protection circuit or at worst blow its fuse. This sounds like a bad cable to me (seen what they can do!)

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