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October 7, 2013 10:53:39 AM

Hello all I just want to say that I suck at all of this so if this is worded poorly blame it on my lack of knowledge. Anyone one night while playing a game on my pc which at this point was built in... Probably 2009? Anyway while playing suddenly it just turned off as if there was a power failure but everything else in my house stayed on. I could faintly detect the smell of burning plastic so after taking my pc completely apart I deduced the smell was coming from my PSU (480w Black Steel) which seemed to have a blown capacitor. Bummer so I got a new PSU only to discover that my motherboard was completely fried as well (no display, computer wasn't booting at all so no post). Fed up with the bullshit I just decided to gut it and order all new components which came today. All except for my graphics card that is which is coming tomorrow so I threw it all together with my old one, carefully, watched like a million YouTube videos but it wasn't too much trouble but when I powered it on the dreaded no signal detected appeared on my monitor and the VGA light on my new asus m5a99x motherboard is solid red. Basically what I am asking is, is it really possible for my blown PSU to have fried my old video card AND mother board?

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October 7, 2013 10:59:50 AM

sure is possible. you will know for sure when your other video card comes.
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October 7, 2013 11:00:05 AM

Sure that's possible. Sounds like you had a really cheap psu before. Looks like you learned your lesson about skimping on the psu right?
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October 7, 2013 11:05:17 AM

hope not.look on the bright side,you probably were itching to upgrade anyway.lol
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October 7, 2013 11:07:09 AM

So it really is possible? What a bummer I was so mad. Hopefully tomorrow when I get the card I can forget all about this if I see no signal one more time I may explode.
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October 7, 2013 11:46:22 AM

It is possible and I just repaired a friends rig from the same thing. The PSU died and took the motherboard and GPU with it. Luckily that is all it took because a PSU can take the CPU and even the ram with it.

So it does not happen again what make/model PSU did you get for the new system? The thing to remember is the PSU is the heart of the system so when it goes it can take basically anything attached to it out.
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October 7, 2013 11:49:29 AM

Simular happend to me last night, my PSU blew made a bang, PC went off, when I put another PSU it all booted back up though.
Depending on the CPU when it fails it will surge protect your PC components, however cheap PSU's are unlikely to do this.
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October 7, 2013 7:29:00 PM

I got a Corsair TX650 to replace it. Definitely seems to be a far superior build quality. The reviews are iffy on it but I have a few friends who swear by it and corsair is at least a brand I have heard of haha. I wouldn't know if it affected the CPU because I just bought a new one outright.
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