[Leaplist] how badly did I screw up this time?

[Kyle Gonzales]

See if you can take the system to a computer store, and have them put
in a 110V PSU to test the computer.  My guess is that you SHOULD be
ok, and the PSU took the brunt of the damage.  It's not like lightning
struck the system.

On Nov 26, 2007 5:02 PM, andrei raevsky <raevsky.andrei at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear LEAPers,
>
> Now I really screwed up.
>
> I had an old computer which I brought from Switzerland which had a 220V
> power pack.  When I came to the USA, I bought a transformer which fed it the
> needed 220V (I also had some other old stuff from Europe feeding off this
> transformer).  Finally, today I decided to change the power pack and put a
> US one instead of the old Swiss one.  I put it in, checked all the cables
> (except, alas, one) and turned on the power.  The fan turned for about 2 sec
> and everything when dead.  Turns out that I managed to check all the cables
> except the friggin power cord which I forgot to disconnect from the
> transformer and connect to the wall socket.  So what I did was that I feed
> 220V into a 120CV power pack :-((
>
> The US power pack is dead, I checked with a power pack checking device
> (whatever that's really called).  My transformer's fuse is burned, but all I
> need to do is put another fuse in it.  My question is: how much damage did
> my stupidity do to the rest of my computer?  Should I spend the money for a
> new power pack, or is it likely that motherboard, proc, RAM and whatever
> else is also fried?  How much of the increase from the expected 120V to the
> delivered 220V will the power pack pass on further to the rest of the
> computer?
>
> Many thanks for any info,
>
> Andrei
>
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