neon Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 Hey I have just bought a new psu for a dell computer it is set at 115 by the switch on the back... is this right or does it need to be at the 230?
teejay Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 230, will go bang on 110. Why they send them out set at that voltage I don't know!
DAckroyd Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 should be 230 - just double check it's designed for UK and the model number matches the one you are replacing You will smell if you have the wrong voltage set
neon Posted November 13, 2009 Author Posted November 13, 2009 thought it was, just wanted to check, the origional psu that was in was set at 115 thought that maight have been why it went bang in the first place
DAckroyd Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 put some glue in the switch to stop them being flicked in furture
andy_nic Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 most new dell PSU's don't come with the switch anymore.
plexer Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 thought it was, just wanted to check, the origional psu that was in was set at 115 thought that maight have been why it went bang in the first place Yes if the little cherebs set it to 110 then turned it on it would kill it. Why can't they just all autorange on the voltage I do not know. Ben
neon Posted November 13, 2009 Author Posted November 13, 2009 Ok so i fiitted the new psu and set it to 230...got all excited pressed the power and... nothing happens... how can I tell what is wrong? Could it have wrecked the motherboard?
DAckroyd Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 very possible that it's blown the mobo, CPU, RAm
neon Posted November 13, 2009 Author Posted November 13, 2009 note to self make sure you switch it on hahaha its friday!
BTCC_Fan Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 note to self make sure you switch it on hahaha its friday! We've all done that before, either switched on at the PSU but not the mains or the other way round.
DAckroyd Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 think this is one for the things that make you go Dohhttp://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/44738-things-make-you-go-doh.html
timbo343 Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 put some glue in the switch to stop them being flicked in furture I spoke to dell regarding putting glue on the power supplies to stop this happening.. They said that if i was to do this then bang goes the warranty, so now if someone flicks the switch they pay for a new PSU. Simple.
DAckroyd Posted November 13, 2009 Posted November 13, 2009 how odd... we unfortunately have some fujitsu machines with silly PSU's (wrong size thing) and they won't replace under the warrenty if the switch is flicked so we've filled them with glue - the other thing to do is if there are metal tags over the switch they can sometimes be bent to stop movement
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