My power supply blew up, melted the power cable to my dvd drive,

>>55797670
I once tried to hotswap a drive.
Actually twice.
The first time I didn't know you were suppose to do that.
The connector sparked up and a gun powdery smell was present.
We also broke the plastic piece of the hard drive that houses the pins for SATA power cable.
The hard drive (WD blue) still worked if you put the plastic piece in the female power connector and slotted in the bare pins.

The second time it was a Seagate barracuda and I didn't know the PC was on. Same thing as above but this time I had to create a jump wire with a copper wire to pass a fuse or diode or something on the PCB.
The drive worked after that.

Moral of the story, don't plug in hard drives in live PC's

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>>55798868

>>55797670
What hole?

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>>55799878
Are you blind anon?

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>>55798868
Here's the dvd drive, the only casualty.

>>55800871
Jesus Christ.

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>>55800925
The connector is melted.

lol, the psu didnt blew and that cap hasnt vented
the molex to sata converter catched fire and fucked the rest, it is a known problem

remove the psu pcb and take photos of it (back and top), you might be able to fix it

>>55800979
ps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TataDaUNEFc

>>55800979
I just bought a new psu. The old one was 7 years old - an enermax 82+. It's fine. I bought a 500w Evga, nice and cheap, will do the job.

>>55800286
Can't see shit, it's obscured by the flash. Also, that cap has a vent, it should not have exploded.

Take a better pic or it didn't happen.

>>55797670
>2016
>using dvd drive

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>>55803111
That's just the glue they use in PSUs. The cap looks fine. Something else must have happened.

>>55797670

>DVD drive

What do you even use it for?

I mean I could understand a bluray drive if you like watching your blurays on your monitor but what the fuck do you need a DVD drive for in 2016?

>>55798868
I thought SATA was hotswappable, at least in theory.

>>55803111

That's not ruptured, that's a glue they use to hold caps apart and prevent shaking.

>>55797670
Looks more like your molex to SATA cable melted, causing the PSU to blow up and inconveniently melted the cable that connects to your front panel.

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>>55797670
i'd be very very worried about any chest pain in your future.

the phumes emmited by these things are multitudes more likely to cause cancer than smoking cigarettes.

>>55800286
>>55797670
I don't see any exploded cap there. The part you marked is just two normal caps with some glue inbetween them to prevent them from fidgeting around.

I'm more inclined to say that the rat nest inside the power supply caused a short somewhere.

>>55804301
Yes, but if you plug in the cable JUST a bit off, the pins short (I think) and poof

>>55804996
>consuming is bad
nice meme there. picture worthy of 14 year old facebook girls' recognition

>>55805035
The ground pins are extended (or should be, perhaps on cheap cables they aren't) to prevent this.

>>55799878
I just saw >>55803111 and it seems it was just the glue they use for shock proofing the caps.
My apologies.

>>55805063
Well it happened both times on cheap PSU's so...

>>55805063
pretty sure the pins are extended on the drive, not the cable

>>55805047
LOL i would love for you to enlighten us all on how you came to the conclusion that
>consuming is bad
no matter how i look at it, i can't see how the picture represents that. but please do share.

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>>55805135
>i can't see how the picture represents that. but please do share.
really?

>>55805067
and i had already told you that on >>55800979
caps vent from the weakest spot which is either the scared top or the bottom rubber pad.
either way, fixing that would be way cheaper than buying a new psu, but i guess thats asking much of the /g/ crowd...

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>>55797670
>Hair, dust and shit everywhere
It is a complete mystery as to why this happened.

>>55805126
Actual hotswap SATA drive bays only let you shove the drive in straight and directly, so there's no chance of the pins going in the wrong order.

>>55805185
molex to sata adapters are a known fire hazard (one of these fuckers almost set fire to my office room)
see >>55801001

>>55801001
Follow-up video, he uses a microscope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyy_WOSdVc

>>55805260
I threw out all my molex to SATA adapters.

>AMD FX8320
>10GB Ram
>500Watt PSU
>Nvidia Geforce GTX 660

Everything is stock. System keeps shutting down on me while playing games and i suspect its my northbridge thats heating up but no monitoring tools are telling me the temps.

I used Open hardware monitor to log temps and everything and only my GPU is reaching 80C but im pretty sure thats not the problem because theyre designed to handle up to 100C. If GPU shuts down then i should return to desktop with generic driver but instead whole computer shuts down and restarts.

>>55805067
Apology accepted, you fucking homo.

>>55805317
Thermal shutdown temp is not nessecarily two seconds before it would have suffered permanent damage.

>>55805156
yes really... or are you too simplistic to be able to provide reasoning for your retarded assumptions?

>>55801001
thanks for linking this, afaik im not using any molex to sata adapters in my builds, but i definitely have a lot of them lying around. going to throw them out

>>55805126
Well then you suck dick. The connectors for SATA have L shaped keys so that you can't misalign the pins as you plug it in.

>>55805317
not true can also be under powered PSU causing crash.

500 watts will only power a few drives a mobo and like 4 fans, if you have any V card above a 6750 you will need at least 800w PSU or it will turn off when it draws to much power.

>>55805511

clearly you don't know what i am talking about. this is not about orientation of the connector, its about which pins make contact first.

Absolute bullshit.

>>55805573
Which will be the ground pins due to the connector shape.

>>55804224
>what the fuck do you need a DVD drive for in 2016?

Um... watching DVDs perhaps?

>>55805589
unless you insert it slightly crooked

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Poya

>>55805486
lmao. okay here it goes. if you look at the picture first you notice the colors and 'material'. the background color is the colour of sewage and speaks of opression. black spray on the wall = symbol for the disstatisfaction the regular person feels in the system outlined in the middle. obviously ' join an adventure' is ironic, and they don't actually mean the things below are good (again, black spay and also the font choice show this clearly). With that in mind, we set out to read about the 'adventure' outlined for us - ' work, buy, consume, die' obviously this paints a very grim picture of the average life. since we're focusing on 'consume', i ignore everything else and skip straight to it. the tv with the static (static especially strong symbol) = the emptyness of mindless consumption, which leads to no fulfillment in your life and then comes death. obviously consumption in this picture = bad

>>55805601
newfags don't know what dvd's are.... they just know torrents, literally my little cuzz asked me last time we where at Walmart what was in the DVD boxes because he though you just download all movies online now XDXDXD

>>55805291
Now this is interesting. I never would have thought someone would go to the trouble of taking these things apart.

>>55805624
wall of text
tl;dr

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>>55805430
>>55805430
>>55805533

Yea, ok, i guess ill buy another PSU and hope this doesnt happen again. These are the temps. Video engine load is also at that because i use steam in home streaming.

>>55805612
Which you can't, because of the L shape.

>>55805655
ur loss. if u can't understand the pic then ur either underage or really stupid

Got a reasonably nice and brand new power supply, it's buzzing a bit loud

I could take the top off and try to glue down whatever is vibrating, or I could rma it

What do

>>55805670
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ya temps look normal, you would know if you had a temp issue because it wouldent allways go straight to black, it would wigg out showing all kinds of glitches in the screen then cut to black. also a good PSU tester never hurts to invest in.

>>55798868
New mobos actually support hot-swapping drives. But be careful thou, I almost burned my PSU three times down because of HDD's metal case. God fucking bless those anti-surge and short circuit protections.

>>55800966
The connector was faulty and had a short, not the power supply.

>>55800871
where the fuck does all that carbon come from? The plastic connector?

>>55805412
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>55805687
how i perceive the image has nothing to do with consumerism.. fact that you believe there's only one way to "understand" the image, and that you only focus on "hurr durr consumerizm iz bayud" without any logical reasoning behind such presumptions makes you a fucking moron.

>>55805687
can't understand your logical fallacies of the image.

but hey i suppose that makes me the idiot because you can't convey a logical argument for your idiotic interpretation of said image

Got a question what do I need to wirelessly access a device with a laptop that I normally plug it in too. I'm sure I need some sort of gsm or gprs module and I'm fine with getting 2 sim cards if I have too

>>55804301
The SATA connectors themselves are NOT meant to be hot-swappable. Supporting the feature doesn't necessarily mean that it was meant to be done with regular SATA cables.
What the hot-swapping feature was meant for are SATA port multipliers or externally accessed SATA bays with some means of powering down the drive through a physical switch. I have a SATA port multiplier that uses two SATA cables and a molex connector for power, but has three 3.5" bays that can fit inside a dual 5.25" bay. All three of them are hotswappable, but the drives need to be disconnected completely in order to remove them from the trays. The drives should NEVER be powered on or running if you remove them from those bays.

>>55805990
i would really love your opinion on the image.
>hillarious adventure of a lite-time
>no family
>no friends

>>55805990
retard misses the point
>>55806036
retard misses the point

>>55798868
Bruh my job was hot swapping hard drives, how the fuck do you fuck up that badly, I've never had that happen

>>55806167
really?
>insert stupid gif of some ugly hoe nobody knows

>>55805777
A few people have said, but either way I'm not so inclined to keep it in my house. It melted some of the front I/o cables near it too, so I guess I'm not reusing the case either. It's no big deal, just the case, psu and dvd drive.

Bought a new psu, hooked out an old case, and who the fuck needs DVDs these days right.

With regards to the capacitor, it has paint peeling and a fucking hole in it. That's a pretty big alarm bell. Besides its only a 425 82+ enermax, it's 7 years old and I've put components on it above its means.

I left my room, came back, smelled burning, and was like 'Oh, that just happened then.' I thought g would take some amusement in the giant scorch mark.

>>55804996
Ive had like 3 shitty power supplys blow up in my room, and i dont have cancer.

>>55806247
It has happened to more people than you think.
Be careful, anon.
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/395227-connect-sata-power-cable-sata-hardrive-burn.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/287990-32-hard-drive-burnt

>>55806392
I'll be sure to get a drive bay next time, just in case

>>55805782
Most plastic is made from oil, which is carbon.

>>55806391
lung cancer is very hard to find (until it's too late and you have a giant mass in your lungs the size of a goldball). you can have ten xrays and still die from it without finding out why until it's too late

if you believe breathing in burning plastic doesn't cause cancer you need psychiatric help.
if you're telling the truth i hope you see doctor asap if you find any symptoms

>>55806452
or just turn your PC off when you do it :^)