Hi everyone,,
Ok so ill try and describe my situation as best as I remember.
Firstly about a month back while playing a game on my desktop my computer suddenly shut off, it restarted on the next attempt but upon doing so I noticed the cpu fan was not spooling up.
Then I investigated the heatsink checking for thermal overload and sure enough I could have cooked an egg on it. I immediately shut down the pc [Working fine but cpu fan gone]
So the next day I installed a new fan and fired it up and we were back to normal, or so I thought until a few days in when playing a game a loud pop came from the back of the pc and everything went bye bye.
Damn its the bloody PSU I thought..I scanned the rest of the pc and nothing smelt burnt or no caps had popped, I decided i would open up the PSU and check for damage, nothing seemed out of the ordinary but it was a pretty big pop that time the pc went dead so I kept inspecting. Found the internal PSU fuse to be burnt or black enough that I couldn't see through the clear glass.
So I decided to buy a new PSU which arrived this morning, So out with the old and in with the new,
crossed my fingers and turned the system on.. GREAT.. It came back to life and off I went playing games, 5 mins in and POP system shuts down. Now I'm in trouble I thought, attempts to restart in vain, not a single light or movement of any kind.. Blew the trip switch on the breaker too.
Did a continuity test on the fuse for the PSU Chord and its not blown ..
Bummer guys... I dunno what to do now
Heres the system specs
Old supply was generic cheap PSU 600w
New PSU is Corsair 500w cx50
Mobo Ma770de
2x4 GB Kingston hyper X 1300 ddr3
CPU. AMD Phenom x4 960t black edition
GPU Sapphire HD6850
HD western digital caviar blue 320Gb
Thanks for reading
Paddo
Ok so ill try and describe my situation as best as I remember.
Firstly about a month back while playing a game on my desktop my computer suddenly shut off, it restarted on the next attempt but upon doing so I noticed the cpu fan was not spooling up.
Then I investigated the heatsink checking for thermal overload and sure enough I could have cooked an egg on it. I immediately shut down the pc [Working fine but cpu fan gone]
So the next day I installed a new fan and fired it up and we were back to normal, or so I thought until a few days in when playing a game a loud pop came from the back of the pc and everything went bye bye.
Damn its the bloody PSU I thought..I scanned the rest of the pc and nothing smelt burnt or no caps had popped, I decided i would open up the PSU and check for damage, nothing seemed out of the ordinary but it was a pretty big pop that time the pc went dead so I kept inspecting. Found the internal PSU fuse to be burnt or black enough that I couldn't see through the clear glass.
So I decided to buy a new PSU which arrived this morning, So out with the old and in with the new,
crossed my fingers and turned the system on.. GREAT.. It came back to life and off I went playing games, 5 mins in and POP system shuts down. Now I'm in trouble I thought, attempts to restart in vain, not a single light or movement of any kind.. Blew the trip switch on the breaker too.
Did a continuity test on the fuse for the PSU Chord and its not blown ..
Bummer guys... I dunno what to do now
Heres the system specs
Old supply was generic cheap PSU 600w
New PSU is Corsair 500w cx50
Mobo Ma770de
2x4 GB Kingston hyper X 1300 ddr3
CPU. AMD Phenom x4 960t black edition
GPU Sapphire HD6850
HD western digital caviar blue 320Gb
Thanks for reading
Paddo