Sad News

[Ajax_Undone]

:( Hey everybody during a system backup to an external Hard Drive My power supply blew a capacitor and fried my entire computer ($2,000USD) Strait to crap...

The external I was backing it up to is OK it was WD World edition 2TB External I only had about 500MB of the first ISO on it b4 it blew...

My mother board suffered the worst damage blowing all 38 Capacitors and 12 of the 247 resistors strait to crap!

The hard drives are scared and are unreadable (I am sending them to a Specialist to have the data retrieved if possible)...

So to make a long story short I wish I a had video of it (it was kind of kool to watch)

Anyhow I lost all the NSIS script to build the installers...

Poop right! Well it happens and I am out $2,000 dollars...

Anyhow I have an old computer (about 3 years old) that I am on right now... So not totally screwed just yet...

Figured I'd tell you why the development of newer installers has ceased b4 it actually becomes apparent...

[Inventive Software]

Is it a generic PSU job, or a branded one? If branded, I'd consider ringing them up and sending them the dead one saying "this is what happened, make sure it doesn't happen again". If it's generic, don't ever use them on expensive equipment!

$2Ks worth of equipment and several years of data. Again shows the importance of backing things up. Ironic that you were doing it at the time!

[Ajax_Undone]

LOL yeah!
I build my own PC's For 3D Development and Gaming (oh and for work as well;))

[MfA]

If you have a decent brand PSU you will probably at the very least be able to get the PSU replaced (my corsair has 60 months warranty, I would hope it has quick acting diodes on the output which would fuse before blowing 38 capacitors on my motherboard though). Small comfort, but it's still a decent chunk of change.

[Ajax_Undone]

Well I have written a claim against the Power supply manufacturer regarding this failure on the part of the Power supply killing my entire computer. They said they need picture evidence that such occurred... So I took some pictures and sent them. I've yet to hear from them since. They said if I prove my case I will get the entire value of the computer (To Date) back on warranty, and they are going to pay for the Data recovery on my Hard Drives... So about 1,700 USD + 900USD for the Data recovery... So all is well that ends well.


It will be about 3 weeks b4 I will get the information back from the data recovery place...

[Ranguvar]

Wow man, that's terrible... I feel for you completely; I would die if I lost the data on my hard drives :(

But I'm still too cheap to do external backups xD

[RickA]

Sorry to hear about this Ajax. You have my sympathies. :-(

Rick

[Wombler]

Woah that's bad. Reminds me of the day a guy in the office here thought he'd change the voltage setting on the power supply to see what would happen.

Flicked the switch and bang.

Anyway best of luck with the data recovery and I hope it's not too expensive.


Wombler

[CruNcher]

Yeah must have been a bad day for you sorry to hear hope they can recover everything, i have good experience with Seagates Data Recovery Service in the Netherlands.
Not that heavy expensive (sure Data Recovery is costly they know you need the Data but they have so many in the queue they make it for a good price compared to the Competition) and you get the know how of a Hardrive Maker one of the most reliable imho :)

[Ajax_Undone]

Received notice that they will be compensating for all mentioned. They said that they were sorry for the loss I experienced and if there was anything else I needed just ask...

I would like to take this time to say: OCZ Customer service is awesome!

[DigitAl56K]

Awesome news!

I've had a couple of cheap PSU's blow before but fortunately no major damage - it's always a scary experience though when you first restart the system. These days I spend the money on nicer units.

Glad it worked out. Nice one OCZ :)

[CruNcher]

Tough todays PSUs capacitors are pretty secure if they blow up i remember an older PSU capacitor exploding it was like in a Disco the whole room was filled with toxic fume in minutes, tough i had luck the neighbours didn't alarmed the firefighters i opened the Window closed the room and got outside as fast as i could, and hold my breath when it happened.

[Mug Funky]

condolences on the data. from the thread title i thought someone had died :eek:

it's a little concerning that the design of the PSU allowed for such a massive surge. you'd think losing a component like that would just immediately cut power, but i guess the right kind of melting could turn a capacitor into a single piece of metal.

i'm glad now that when one of the PSUs blew up on my telecine that it didn't take anything else out with it.

[Sharktooth]

Ajax, i wish i knew you had an OCZ PSU, mine went on fire too.
OCZ PSUs are known to "explode" or burn... recently i have swapped it (after almost a disaster) with a Corsair PSU. Hadnt any problem since then.
Enermax or other good brands will do the job too.
However i think OCZ is going to fix the defect ASAP since those things are happening to too much OCZ customers.

[Ajax_Undone]

My main drive was encrypted using true crypt AES256 :angry:

The data on it looks hopeless I gave my recovery disk and key to them earlier today... So we will see what happens.

[Ajax_Undone]

Yeah 99% recovered...

plus about 2 TB of jargon... Working threw copycats and blanks got about a week worth of sorting now...

[FragmentsRevised]

wow you are right a video of that would have been something else to watch....sorry for your loss. All good gadgets bite the dust at some point.