Its not old enoug to have one of those switchs on the rear of unit so no quie that easy? and thoughts?

footnote: just wants some options on how to go about it

what do you mean by 'powersurge' ?

What in the f*** are you trying to with a psu exactly... perhaps a bit more info would help

want to play a practical joke on a good friend of mine who always ask for help with computer s*** but never offers to pay :P
want me to build a pc for him

have an old clunker psu i want to kill and was just wondering if there was an easy way to surge it.

show him the working system then do the old switcharoo

here is a tutorial





I hope you understand cos I don't

From watching stargate I know you can put literally any power source on a feedback loop to create an explosion and if that don't work... reverse the polarity.

last edited by thermite at 18:41:23 28/Jan/10

Short any number of the 12v rails and see what happens. or look for the fuse (either clear glass or ceramic tube) and try to blow it.

what if you slide the switch to 110v o_O

thats what I assumed the switch on the rear he was talking about, ie it's switchedmode.

Its not old enoug to have one of those switchs on the rear of unit so no quie that easy?

oh i thought he meant the black on-off switch duhh woops

ahaha



I farted while watching that, then forgot, and thought I could smell that board sparking.




last edited by thermite at 18:46:18 28/Jan/10

Step1: Don't f*** with 240v power systems AT ALL if you don't know what you're doing.
Step2: Take the computer case to someone who knows what they're doing and ask them to install a cheap fog machine in it so when they turn it on smoke pours out from every hole
Step3: Laugh

if only this was done with a high speed camera

i just mean like could i run it on a circuit board with a power drill or something would that be enougn to over do it or what

You want to make the computer trip the switches in his house? What the hell are you trying to do EXACTLY. Saying you want to "surge" a power supply is f***ing confusing. Are you trying to destroy the PSU? Burn his house down? Just make the overload switches in his house go off? My computer is a huge beast and at the wall it only uses 300 watts, to make a normal computer trip an overload switch you'd have to do something drastic to it, 2400watts is the most you should put through one circuit.

Seriously, don't go f***ing with this stuff if you don't know what you're doing. What starts out as a prank ends up with you paying to get his house rebuilt from a jail cell.

If you want to be a mean prick do what I did to my brother, put the windows shutdown command in the "run" registry key. As soon as windows loads that it shuts straight back down again.

last edited by whoop at 19:06:27 28/Jan/10

Melt heaps of solder all over the circuit board, so it doesn't blow until he actually uses it

Oh and if you build him this fabulous PC and put a s***ty PSU in it and intentionally make the PSU blow up you might also blow up whatever else is in the PC so if this is meant to be a time delay thing that works at first and then blows up you'll probably end up pwning the entire PC.

That's a good point
you're probably just best to disconnect the 12v leads that connect to the motherboard and drives, but hot glue them in place so they don't fall out.

Just chop a few wires and fill with magnesium

or fill it with thermite? see what I did there?

From watching stargate I know you can put literally any power source on a feedback loop to create an explosion and if that don't work... reverse the polarity.

f***ing lol.

This sounds like an incredibly unsafe idea, I agree with whoop.

Either build it properly or don't do it at all, don't be a douche.

trying to replicate a power surge killing a psu so i can look into it further for R&D purposes i cant really say much sorry

hahah :P

grab the psu & attach a 2metre length of copper rod to it's case. goto a golf course & drop the psu with rod attached on the ground in the middle of a field during a thunder storm. now it's time to play the waiting game.. or hungry hungry hippo if you have it.

Given any thought to the damage this may do to your house wiring?

smoke machine was a good idea