I have had THREE (3) Antec power supplies fail in the last 9 months.

The first failure was August 2006, and was a PS that came with an
Antec Sonata case originally purchased in 2005 (I believe it was
a 400W PS). I replaced it with an Antec SP-450.

In November 06 I bought a second case, an Antec Sonata-II for a new
system. This system came with an SP-450, and the power supply
failed in February 07. I couldn't find the receipt so Antec
wouldn't replace it under warranty. I replaced it with a different
brand PS.

Then last week the replacement SP-450 that I purchased in August 06
started failing randomly. It would power up but within 5-10 minutes
the system would stop responding and lose monitor signal (but not
hard disk power). Replacing the PS with a Thermaltake 430W cured
that problem.

I do have the receipt for the replacement SP-450 I bought in August
06 so I'm going to try to get Antec to replace it. We'll see what
happens.

I've had one or more PCs since 1987, and in the 19 years prior to
August 2006 have seen exactly ONE power supply go bad (it was a
spectacular *BANG* and puff of smoke :-) Three bad Antec power
supplies seem to indicate a trend.

Anybody else having problems with Antec?

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Jim Garrison (jhg (AT) acm (DOT) org)
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On 20-Mar-2007, Jim Garrison <jhg (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:

http://www.pcpowercooling.com/home/ I have been buying these since 1998 and
have not had one fail yet. Not cheap.

Gary wrote:

Why not just buy two Seasonics for the same price or less? Very good
quality, and they use the same Teapo brand capacitors found in most
PCP&Cs.

On 21-Mar-2007, "larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly (AT) my-deja (DOT) com> wrote:

I tried them and had two fail.