- Jul 27, 2015
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I had a corsair cx 750 power supply for about two years. But about two weeks ago my computer would randomly crash when gaming. I figured it was a bad power supply so got corsair to send me a new one under my warranty. For about a week everything was great.
Yesterday I was playing mount and blade waveband (not a demanding game hardware-wise) and I heard a POP and my computer shut down. It then smelt like some weird chemical or burning. When I tried to turn it back on nothing happened. Not even my Mobo LED light came on. Naturally I suspected the PSU had failed (capacitor?)
So I went down to the store and got a EVGA 850w G2- plugged it in and now when I flip the on switch on the back of my PSU my Mobo green light starts flashing off and on while making a click click click noise.
I don't know if this PSU is defective too or if maybe my Mobo has problems. My PSU fan however DOES spin while the LED light is flashing and so does my cup fan.
No idea what the problem is- my first suspicion was I got another bad PSU but 3 bad PSUs in the span of 3 weeks seems like too big of a coincidence. Plus my PSU fan does spin once I flip the power switch on the PSU to on (without trying to power on my comp). I also find it weird my CPU fan spins without me trying to power on my comp as well.
My specs:
ASUS m5a97 Mobo
ASUS GTX 770 card
AMD FX 8350 CPU
EVGA 850w G2 (80 gold)
Ripjaw Ram 8gb (4x2)
Samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd
Any help would be immensely appreciated.
Yesterday I was playing mount and blade waveband (not a demanding game hardware-wise) and I heard a POP and my computer shut down. It then smelt like some weird chemical or burning. When I tried to turn it back on nothing happened. Not even my Mobo LED light came on. Naturally I suspected the PSU had failed (capacitor?)
So I went down to the store and got a EVGA 850w G2- plugged it in and now when I flip the on switch on the back of my PSU my Mobo green light starts flashing off and on while making a click click click noise.
I don't know if this PSU is defective too or if maybe my Mobo has problems. My PSU fan however DOES spin while the LED light is flashing and so does my cup fan.
No idea what the problem is- my first suspicion was I got another bad PSU but 3 bad PSUs in the span of 3 weeks seems like too big of a coincidence. Plus my PSU fan does spin once I flip the power switch on the PSU to on (without trying to power on my comp). I also find it weird my CPU fan spins without me trying to power on my comp as well.
My specs:
ASUS m5a97 Mobo
ASUS GTX 770 card
AMD FX 8350 CPU
EVGA 850w G2 (80 gold)
Ripjaw Ram 8gb (4x2)
Samsung 850 evo 250gb ssd
Any help would be immensely appreciated.
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