Here's the story. Before I left for Europe I had a nice desktop PC in the States a week ago.
I decided to bring it with me. I packed up the graphics card, Wifi card, hard drives and optical drives and took those as carry on making sure they stay safe but I put the case with the motherboard, psu and ram in my suitcase as checked luggage.
When I got to Europe, I noticed the case was pretty banged up. I put the computer back together and it wouldn't start.
More precisely it lights up but doesn't do anything. Monitor, keyboard, mouse don't respond.
At first I thought I didn't connect something, but everything was connected.
Then I thought the PSU might not be ready for 220V in Europe, but it's a OCZ StealthXStream II 500W PSU which does not have a manual power voltage switch and I assume does that automatically. It says on the PSU it should work up to 240V.
I checked if the ATX tolerance were off and all of them were around 1 Volt too high. I guess my voltmeter could be broken.
Or someone tossed my case too hard and destroyed the motherboard. But there is no visible damage.
So I can't decide if I need a new PSU or a new motherboard. I'm thinking it's the motherboard because I don't think a change to the input voltage would affect the output voltage like that and the case has dents so they had to throw my suitcase really hard. I had the computer case surrounded by clothes and filled with clothes.
Thoughts? Help?
My specs are:
MSI 870-G54
AMD Phenom II x4 965
AMD Radeon HD 7770
OCZ StealthXStream II 500W
I decided to bring it with me. I packed up the graphics card, Wifi card, hard drives and optical drives and took those as carry on making sure they stay safe but I put the case with the motherboard, psu and ram in my suitcase as checked luggage.
When I got to Europe, I noticed the case was pretty banged up. I put the computer back together and it wouldn't start.
More precisely it lights up but doesn't do anything. Monitor, keyboard, mouse don't respond.
At first I thought I didn't connect something, but everything was connected.
Then I thought the PSU might not be ready for 220V in Europe, but it's a OCZ StealthXStream II 500W PSU which does not have a manual power voltage switch and I assume does that automatically. It says on the PSU it should work up to 240V.
I checked if the ATX tolerance were off and all of them were around 1 Volt too high. I guess my voltmeter could be broken.
Or someone tossed my case too hard and destroyed the motherboard. But there is no visible damage.
So I can't decide if I need a new PSU or a new motherboard. I'm thinking it's the motherboard because I don't think a change to the input voltage would affect the output voltage like that and the case has dents so they had to throw my suitcase really hard. I had the computer case surrounded by clothes and filled with clothes.
Thoughts? Help?
My specs are:
MSI 870-G54
AMD Phenom II x4 965
AMD Radeon HD 7770
OCZ StealthXStream II 500W
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