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My desktop wouldn't boot today - no pre-POST beep, no keyboard lights, no display - just drives spinning up.
Deep joy. Pretty sure it's the PSU - it's only a dinky little thing on this, and it may well be that the new SSD and multiport SATA card I fitted in Feb have pulled it over the edge - particularly since I managed to get it to boot by unplugging the DVD and data HDD drives.
Oh...elephant...new PSU time - and that means hassle because a standard PSU won't fit in that space, so it's a new case as well. It's currently working fine, with just the DVD drive unplugged but it's in bits all over my desk!
A quick check online, and it's only a 200W PSU - so it's quite possible I've been stressing it for a while since the graphics card alone is around 100W 
Oops...must get a current clamp adapter for my multimeter...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Even if you had to get an external PSU, you should be able to put in in a case of some sort and graft the cables in
Open heart transplant, been there, done that
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: Open heart transplant, been there, done that
Really?
There are people out there right now, with a special pager, just waiting on the call (for either themselves or worse, their child), just hoping against hope that they survive long enough for that fateful beep meaning a heart has become available.
They might not like the joke.
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You can't even parse a simple English program very well. What makes you think the computer (as programmed by people) will do better?
Euphemism is the word/idea you needed here - joke doesn't fit..
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Easiest is probably a standard case with 500W PSU, and swap the whole guts over. It's an Acer half height at the moment, but it looks like uATX format M/B and having a full height case would reduce the Heath Robinson factor in there to a more "coherent" level. I'm looking at cases and PSU's now.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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much neater than my franken graft suggestion 
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Oh man, it's like 7/11 happened on your computer 
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Morning Donald!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You know, Barack Obama gets a bible quote on his Blackberry every morning. I think I can start a service of providing a Trump gaff every morning to your mobile. I'll be richer than Trump 
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You'll certainly have a rich supply vein to choose from!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I read your comment on my phone, and have sprayed beer out of my mouth onto the steering wheel
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Sorry, but you shouldn't drink and drive 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: you shouldn't drink and drive
and he shouldn't play with his dammed either!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The sole reason, I ditched all Desktops I had. I had a bunch of them at home and at work. I just hate fiddling with this particular issue. Sheer time waster. I started disliking Desktops very much, long ago.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I've got a rumbly in my tumbly
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There was a time when Christian was the single highest poster in this forum, with a stellar reputation. And he had nothing but problems in his life and online - the world was out to get him. I'm seeing some parallels here.
This space for rent
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That's even weaker than my wives old dell desktop. She bought it because it was no hassle... 
Then she found it wasn't good enough for her games she wanted to play so I got a GPU since it only had integrated. Then there was the little problem of lacking connectors of sufficient size of the psu. Was a 350W but only had a few 4pin connector and I think I needed a 6 or 8.
200W isn't even half a HP. You should get at least 800W psu because more HP = more speed which should result in better overall performance and speed of your work? ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
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Lloyd working at MNET in Brisbane here!
For whatever reason an internal new product I am working on must use the database server in Adelaide! 
(Only 6000 km away!...)
Today our sales people are demoing this new product to a bunch of government people.
For some reason, let's call it Murphy's law, the Adelaide IT people apparently decided that today was a also good day to shutdown the database server VM my new application is using....
The rest, as they say... is (unfortunate) history... 
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Picture[^]
William : Lets do the scene where Luke finds out who his real Father is
Harry : F*** off William.
modified 19-Apr-16 20:24pm.
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Is it just me or does the garage at Windsor Castle look a little rough?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Such a surreal scene. All it needs is Ricky Gervais smiling in the background.
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Harry would kick Will's ass all the way to Jericho, Star Wars or not.
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Took them 10 years to write.
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Good God!
Their documentation is actually readable!
They must be cr@p programmers, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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