Can my power supply be repaired?

Question

I fix and sell computers, many of them I build. I built a computer a couple of days ago but I had a major problem when I turned it on. I connected the Berg connection to the floppy drive, and since it's a difficult connection I stuck it in very hard and I when I turned it on, the whole berg connection went red with heat and was smoking heavily. The floppy drive is dead, forget that, I later sold that PC with a new PSU + floppy drive. So with this PSU, the whole berg cable is burnt out. Is there a way I can fix this and use it?

Answer 1

No one in their right mind would waste time fixing a PSU. It's not worth the time and effort. Just throw it away. Since you're going to throw it away, might as well take it apart real quick with minimal care just to make sure it's not something super easy to replace, like one cylinder fuse or something.

Answer 2

Well, if the power supply still works and

1) you have either a bad PSU or an outdated PSU laying around

2) you are comfortable with soldering



Then you could either open both PSU's and move the Berg harness from the old/outdated PSU to this one OR just open this PSU, remove the Berg harness and get a Molex to Berg adapter to plug into a Molex connector of the PSU.



http://www.logicsupply.com/products/pwry_m2b



I guess the main thing would be to remove the original Berg harness (melted insulation and all) from the original bad PSU and go from there.

Answer 3

Have you tested the other connections to see if they are live? ( i suspect not ) To be honest with you i would bin it as they are cheap enough anyway and being an important part of the pc, you need it to be working 100%.I have had P.C's where they have failed to work as the psu has not been supplying the right amount of charge, although first inspection they seem perfectly fine.

Answer 4

Anything can be fixed. You just need to have the right testing equipment to determine what component has failed. There is a fuse inside, check it first.

Answer 5

Nope

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Those big boxes are kind of put together with no screws

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Spot welded something about the Federal regulations and not wanting the owners to open them and work on them

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There is one potential of getting Zapped by that little hot box

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Answer 6

PSU are generally not user serviceable

Answer 7

yeahsh