Today I turned my PC on and waited for the usual "zzzzzzzzzz, tick, tack, beep!". They didn't take place. The HDD activity light wasn't working either, and the PC speaker failed to beep when it should have done so. The only life signs were given by the dull roar of the many coolers inside the box.
Not the first time this happened. After retrying this several times, I arrived to the conclusion it was time to open the case (for the second time in around a week) and see what's up. The other times I solved the problem by just unplugging the main motherboard power cable, using an air "pear" to blow clean air on the connector, and plugging it back in, but this time that didn't work. Plugging some of those on another PSU did make the disks run and the PC speaker beep, though. OK, the aging 470W Vitsuba supply had gone boom, even thought it faithfully served the computer for about five years without any (major?) inconveniences, and it was time to replace it. With the time loss and all the cable-fiddling that implied.
*fast forward*
My computer is now running on a 700-watt OCZ for overclockers.
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