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--- Quote from: spystyle on December 03, 2004, 02:13:49 am ---Just replace the power supply fan, it's less expensive, takes less time, and is guarenteed to work. --- End quote --- I agree. I had a PS fan fail on one of my PCs once. I opened it up, pulled out the fan, looked at my pile of leftover PCs in the basement and quickly found a replacement fan. If you don't have any other 'dead' PCs lying around, then buy a $15 case w/PS, pull the fan and hang on to the case for the next replacement part you might need (molex connectors, wires, PS connections, LEDs, power switches, power plugs etc etc etc) |
| Ken Layton:
I've fixed tons of game power supplies over the years. I replace the bad fan with a new one from Jameco Electronics (www.jameco.com). Their part number 16993CP works in a great many power supplies and it's only $7 (sometimes it's on sale). |
| Tritoch84:
Thank you! And the case that only excepts half height cards is the one I already own, it's a gateway 300s. I want to replace the fan, but I can't find any sites that sell the fan except the one you mentioned. I'll give it a look. Speaking of cases that only take smaller cards, I had to do some virus hunting one day and had to put in an older PCI scsi controller card, and found that it wouldn't fit, at this time, I was highly annoyed, and was at the end of my rope. So I just grabbed some plyers, and bent the whole case back, so I could fit in the card, and then fix my problem. Good thing it bent back after I fixed the problem, and good thing gateway makes cheap CHEAP cases. (I'll never buy a gateway again, but then again, I didn't buy this one, either.) |
| spystyle:
You want to replace the fan but cant find it on-line you say? Does it look like the PSU pictured below? If so it may be an 80mm or 60mm fan, yank the dead fan and bring it to your local computer shop, I'm sure they'll have one for $5 |
| spystyle:
and this is the computer you have? |
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