First post, by mr_bigmouth_502
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In my main desktop, a 2.8GHz Pentium Dual Core E6300 Wolfdale with 4GB of DDR2 and a Radeon HD 4650 512MB, I have an FSP Group Saga+ 400R power supply. It has served me faithfully for the last four years, but lately I've been noticing some anomalies. About a couple weeks ago, I started hearing some "coil whine" emanating from it, but I figured it wasn't a big deal. For about a week I didn't use it for whatever reason (sometimes I'll get "bored" of one machine and I'll use another for a while 😜), but I went to turn it on earlier today, and it didn't even want to post. A small amount of power was going through, which I could tell by my fans spinning slowly and my case lights shining dimly, so I turned off my power bar, turned it back on and tried again. It did the same thing for about half a minute, then it started running normally. 😜 I'm actually using this machine right at the moment, and so far the only other weird thing that's happened is that I can occasionally hear some faint clicks coming from the PSU.
Is it a bad idea for me to keep using this machine without replacing the power supply? If this machine dies on me I can probably carry on using my Alienware laptop, though I don't like that machine as much for whatever reason. 😜