Hi Wagner


>By exploding you mean a SMPS capacitor just ruptured?
>There is no other thing in there to "explode".
>A ruptured capacitor will definitely drop the voltage its output voltage,
>so no further problem could be done, the power supply itself will shutdown
>due lack of "power good return line" from the motherboard.
>


Yes, post mortem revealed a totally ruptured capacitor.
This explosion occured right after I pressed the ON button and believe me, the
power supply did not shut down.
It kept going, but the PC did not boot.

I had to replace the motherboard, CD-ROM and CD-RW drives plus the power supply.

I agree with what you say about the data back-up process, but do all PC users
*really* have to always be ready for exploding power supplies?

Alan

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