Right, so basically what happened was I was gaming late at night without a care in the world... Then my PSU overheated, now I was concerned so I left it off and went to bed.
Around 11 hours later I tried to turn it on, which I shouldn't have, at first nothing happened. It was silent and no power seemed to get through. I stood back for a second to think of who I could take it to. Then it blew up... I didn't see what part it was but now I know it was the PSU. There was a flash and a bit of smoke. I turned the power off and left it a while.
After around an hour or so I took it apart and realised it smelt funny, turns out it was just the PSU and not any other components. I took the PSU out and had a look inside it, now I'm not familiar with the inside of a PSU so I was walking into unknown territory here and there was no one else who could look at it as I live in a small village, I also need my PC back very soon.
What I found on the inside didn't look too bad, I've seen the inside before but I didn't know what the bits were for. Turns out something had been smashed, it was made of plastic/glass and looks like one of the AMPS you find inside a plug. It looked like it melted (Caused from the overheating) then exploded since it would have ruined what ever goes through it.
From my basic description here, do you think there could be any further damage to the system? I need it soon so I need to know if I should just buy myself a new PSU or if there is anything else I should check and note. Thanks guys!
Around 11 hours later I tried to turn it on, which I shouldn't have, at first nothing happened. It was silent and no power seemed to get through. I stood back for a second to think of who I could take it to. Then it blew up... I didn't see what part it was but now I know it was the PSU. There was a flash and a bit of smoke. I turned the power off and left it a while.
After around an hour or so I took it apart and realised it smelt funny, turns out it was just the PSU and not any other components. I took the PSU out and had a look inside it, now I'm not familiar with the inside of a PSU so I was walking into unknown territory here and there was no one else who could look at it as I live in a small village, I also need my PC back very soon.
What I found on the inside didn't look too bad, I've seen the inside before but I didn't know what the bits were for. Turns out something had been smashed, it was made of plastic/glass and looks like one of the AMPS you find inside a plug. It looked like it melted (Caused from the overheating) then exploded since it would have ruined what ever goes through it.
From my basic description here, do you think there could be any further damage to the system? I need it soon so I need to know if I should just buy myself a new PSU or if there is anything else I should check and note. Thanks guys!
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