[sllug-members]: Zapped power supply

[David J Iannucci]

I hope someone here can give me some advice :-) Yesterday I opened up my
wife's tower PC and decided to clean out some of the dust while I was in
there. While using a compressed-air can to blow some of it out, I
accidentally turned the can at an angle and blew some of the propellant
liquid straight into my power supply.

Well, shortly after that the machine would run for a little while and
then suddenly power would be cut. This happened twice before I decided
not to chance any further damage :-/  I've opened up the power supply,
and find there's some dried white foamy stuff on some of the
capacitors(?). Don't know if that's normal and was there previously,
but I can't imagine there's anything reasonable I could do to salvage
the thing.

The p/s is a Foxlink FTPS-0302 350W supply.  The machine originally came
from University Surplus and I'm thinking of going up there tomorrow to
buy another cheap machine to cannibalize the p/s, but if anyone has any
advice on a better way to deal with this, or a better place to buy a
compatible p/s, or if you've got one lying around that will work for me
that you'd sell cheap enough, I'd like to hear from you :-)

My wife is really tied at the hip to this machine (running openSUSE 10.1
but was planning to reinstall it with Ubuntu :-), and no matter what,
I've got to get something up and running for her again soon :-)

Thanks,
Dave