Hi, and thank you for reading this.
So the backstory: My pc was struck by lightning a few weeks ago. After that it wouldn't start. I bought a new set of components, but stupidly (trying to save money) tried to combine them with some of the parts that were affected by the lightning strike (hdd and psu). The system ran fine for a few days, then started giving bsod errors ("memory_management" was one of them, another was "attempts were made to write to read-only memory"; there were some others but they were more obscure). I ran memory diagnostic and it turned up "hardware problems". Something a tech guy noticed was the psu fan would slow down and speed up, and he said that was very bad. I tried another psu and saw that the voltages in bios were more stable (previously they would waver pretty constantly by about .01-.02 volts), but by this stage I had uninstalled the OS and was trying to re-install off of a flash disk. This isn't working as it claims there are corrupt files (I've done this before with success).
Is it possible the old psu has damaged my components beyond repair? Do I need to replace everything or should I start with the psu and hdd? Did the psu harm some files on the flash disk and I simply need to repeat the boot disk setup and start over with a new psu?
Note: I tested the RAM in another guy's computer and it worked fine on a single boot up.
My pc also had an APC surge protector at the time of the strike.
Here are the specs:
Motherboard: MSI-FM2-A85XA-G65
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 250GB (ST3250310AS)
CPU: AMD A10 5800K
RAM: Mushkin Silverline 2x2GB Low Voltage 1.55v DDR3 1600
Cooler: Coolermaster Blizzard T2
PSU: Gigabyte 585w GE-P585-C2
So the backstory: My pc was struck by lightning a few weeks ago. After that it wouldn't start. I bought a new set of components, but stupidly (trying to save money) tried to combine them with some of the parts that were affected by the lightning strike (hdd and psu). The system ran fine for a few days, then started giving bsod errors ("memory_management" was one of them, another was "attempts were made to write to read-only memory"; there were some others but they were more obscure). I ran memory diagnostic and it turned up "hardware problems". Something a tech guy noticed was the psu fan would slow down and speed up, and he said that was very bad. I tried another psu and saw that the voltages in bios were more stable (previously they would waver pretty constantly by about .01-.02 volts), but by this stage I had uninstalled the OS and was trying to re-install off of a flash disk. This isn't working as it claims there are corrupt files (I've done this before with success).
Is it possible the old psu has damaged my components beyond repair? Do I need to replace everything or should I start with the psu and hdd? Did the psu harm some files on the flash disk and I simply need to repeat the boot disk setup and start over with a new psu?
Note: I tested the RAM in another guy's computer and it worked fine on a single boot up.
My pc also had an APC surge protector at the time of the strike.
Here are the specs:
Motherboard: MSI-FM2-A85XA-G65
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 250GB (ST3250310AS)
CPU: AMD A10 5800K
RAM: Mushkin Silverline 2x2GB Low Voltage 1.55v DDR3 1600
Cooler: Coolermaster Blizzard T2
PSU: Gigabyte 585w GE-P585-C2
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