have i done damage to my psu

jhny p · May 21, 2013

hi all,, not shore if ive damaged anything but the other night I was fidilling around in my gaming rig and pulled the uv light switch inside witch was loose and part of the switch touched the metal inside my case and blew the psu,, pc went off instantly,,,turned it back on fine afterwards but gaming now there seems a lot less performace than there before my dosy miss hap????anyway my question is what sort of damage could it have done to my pc? had anti surge suport on in the bios if that helped..????????

bryonhowley · May 21, 2013

Well what you did would be called a short not a surge there for anti surge protection would have nothing to do with it. Beyond that it is hard to tell what damage you could have done and depending on a lot of factors if damage extends beyond the PSU. With any luck it may have just tripped the short protection built into the PSU and shut it off. If that is all that happen the lesson learned do not play around inside the case with your rig powered on it is not really a good idea for any reason.

jhny p · May 21, 2013

bryonhowley :

Well what you did would be called a short not a surge there for anti surge protection would have nothing to do with it. Beyond that it is hard to tell what damage you could have done and depending on a lot of factors if damage extends beyond the PSU. With any luck it may have just tripped the short protection built into the PSU and shut it off. If that is all that happen the lesson learned do not play around inside the case with your rig powered on it is not really a good idea for any reason.

jhny p · May 21, 2013

thanks for the quick response,,,i no its definatly lesson learned,,wont be doing it twice that's for shore,,,,yeh I hope it did trip the switch rather than carry threw into mobo and cpu,, but only time will tell.it did switch instantly off so hope so, I think its done something as my games bf3 have gone very jumpy,, like I get stuck when running then release constantly cant see anything properly its like playing wilst an eathquake,,,i was overclocking at the time and overclocked the bclk/pcie to 103.0 wondering weather its messed with the pci express bus,,, do u now anything on overclocking and is it a good idea anyway to overclock that setting to 103.0??? I also hope I havnt fryed my evga 680 sc as its only 4 days old,,,,

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