Nice of Silverstone to brush you off... I'll remember that. Definitely contact head office; there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to pay for a replacement. They're distributor in Australia is less than helpful which I'll feed back to Silverstone. I've found some US sites that stock the PSU an...

borrible wrote:I have a general question about these PSUs
either the picoPSU or the PW-200M / V ....
..... And a SilverStone LC11 case, where I want to replace the PSU.

Am curious if you tried anything here. My PSU has failed and am looking for the quietest replacement for the LC11M.


Regards,

Arrikhan

Guys, My PSU has failed in my Silverstone LC11M and my local distributor (Australia) tells me Silverstone doesn't sell them seperately, and as it's out of warranty .. there is nothing I can do. Local distributors in Australia are known to lie blatantly so I've got a call direct to SilvestoneTek to f...

Firetech wrote:Here's an ongoing Oz Powermeter thread
Post #4 also fully links to the Jaycar meter @ AU$40.

The Jaycar meter is apparently back in stock now too ..

Arrikhan

For those out there that bought this case, have you got power up to work via a remote control? This isn't working for me and I was wondering if power on events needed to be triggered on internal USB connections rather than external ones maybe? ... or is there something else to it?

Regards,


Arrikhan

hmsrolst wrote:My 300W has only a single fan, but it may be that the design has changed. As I said in my earlier post, it was a lot quieter than the 240, although not quiet enough. I switched to a PICO and, of course, it's silent.

A PICO??? Can you elaborate?


Arrikhan

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Copper wrote:The most I have done is make an image.

Considering the I-RAM is my only storage device, I'm thinking restoring to is going to prove to be a problem !!


Arrikhan

Has anyone tried to backup the image (using the gigabyte tool) on a less than 4GB configuration, then restore the configuration to a larger memory configuration?

Does it work? ...

Arrikhan.

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reyn116 wrote:I can't seem to find any black and white Nexus fans here in Aus, pccasegear.com have the orange 1s only

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[Just Checked] Seems they only stock Orange 120mm, and the rest are black...

Arrikhan

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