Fixing a fan in a PC power supply
In my infinite wisdom at the age of 13, I decided to do a bit of DIY repair on my PC, which had an amazingly annoying buzzing broken fan.

I kept the pc plugged in (to earth the chassis), but switched off at the plug and the switch on the pc power supply itself.

I then unplugged it all, opened the power supply up, changed the fan. Before putting it all back together, I had a brainwave;

"Why don't I just plug it in to test it all works before putting it all back together?"

I checked it was all switched off, plugged the cable in and then switched everything on for the test.

It didn't work, but I noticed the cable was loose in the PC socket, so i pushed it in.


20 minutes later, I awoke the other side of my bedroom, with a seriously sharp pain in my right hand.

I looked down to find my finger and thumb were *bright* red and throbbing a little. Ouch.

I switched it all off again, and retraced my steps.

In order to plug the cable in properly, I had to steady the power unit, unfortunately for me, I decided to use the capacitor on the back of the plug to do so, with my finger and thumb.

I tend to put things back together before testing now.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 10:06, Reply)