Now to get into detail as to what happened to me. I was trying to get my ram to run at its rated speed 3,000mhz wasn't quite able to (I'm a noob to the PC world so I don't know what I'm doing) I enabled the xmp profile on bios which showed the speed would be at 2,933mhz 1.35v I left everything else to auto (timing etc.) saved and quit out of bios my PC then boots on and off roughly 4-5 times without any weird noises beeps etc. I kind of freaked out but said maybe that's normal.
I then go to the gigabyte app saw the system info say DDR was at 2,100mhz, so I said maybe that didn't work so I went into bios again and left the xmp profile enabled and manually set the speed to 3,200 still was at 1.35v maybe cranking to 1.38v or 1.41v, I still left the timings etc. to auto as I don't know how to play around with that stuff and when I saved and quit bios my PC booted on and off 4-5 times. I went into the gigabyte app saw that this time it said DDR was somewhere around 3,129mhz and I said ok it's going roughly 100mhz over the rated speed that should be no biggie but I tried to to continuously get it to exactly 3,000mhz or close so of course I repeated what I did several times which involved my pc doing a lot of the weird 4-5 times of turning on and off like I stated before and then I said I have 2 sticks of 8gbs of ram maybe they're in the wrong slots and so I found out they were, my mobo wants for DDR4_1 and DDR4_2 to be used meanwhile I had 1 stick in DDR4_1 and the other in DDR4_4. I was also trying to fix the LED lighting that my case has since it wasn't working due to it not being connected.
After all that tweaking which I had guidance on, I put my PC back onto my desk I plugged just the power chord into the power supply to see if I fixed the led lighting my case has, pressed the power button and that's when I heard a pop and saw a almost medium size spark shoot out of the vent next to where I plugged the power chord into the PSU, I didn't hear sounds of my PC booting or see any lights from my PC. I then unplugged it plugged it back in still no answer from my PC I used a different cable to plug into the power supply still no answer so I said well I guess I fried the PSU what I'm speculating is the power strip I had the power chord connected to that has 5 other things connected to it and on caused for my power supply to pop as I guess it couldn't handle everything connected to it but what's weird is everything that was connected to the power strip was still on and everything connected to it was still getting power it's just my PC. I tried a different outlet still no luck I also didn't see any smoke or smell anything weird I didn't bother smelling the inside cause I was scared and shocked. Didn't see any burn marks as well.
I then unplugged everything and issued a RMA now getting a new one what I'd like to know is the possible cause and how to get my ram to run at rated speeds below is exactly what this RIG has, also should I buy a power surge?Is there a possibility that I blew out other components from this happening? Any help will be greatly appreciated remember I'm a REAL NOOB understand a bit of the basics maybe less than basics lol but my dad is a computer wiz but I can't reach out to him all the time as he's busy. Just another thing to mention I played my first game Player Unkowns Battlegrounds and it was running horrible frames dropped game froze for 5 second sometimes longer and unfroze for a quick sec and the whole screen was just all glitchy looking now I know I have descent specs any advice as to what I should do?
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AB350 gaming 3
Video card: MSI Radeon RX 580 DirectX 12 RX 580 GAMING X 8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory Model GPR416GB3000C15ADC
CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 1500X 4-Core 3.5 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD150XBBAEBOX Desktop Processor
PSU: EVGA 700 WATT BRONZE 80 PLUS POWER SUPPLY
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400
1TB Samsung Internal hard drive don't know the exact specs
Windows 10 Pro
KEYBOARD: BAKTH Unique Premium Adjustable 7 Color Illuminated LED Backlight Wired Multimedia USB Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Set Combos Bundle + Customized Large Mouse Mat
Monitor: BenQ Zowie RL2755
I then go to the gigabyte app saw the system info say DDR was at 2,100mhz, so I said maybe that didn't work so I went into bios again and left the xmp profile enabled and manually set the speed to 3,200 still was at 1.35v maybe cranking to 1.38v or 1.41v, I still left the timings etc. to auto as I don't know how to play around with that stuff and when I saved and quit bios my PC booted on and off 4-5 times. I went into the gigabyte app saw that this time it said DDR was somewhere around 3,129mhz and I said ok it's going roughly 100mhz over the rated speed that should be no biggie but I tried to to continuously get it to exactly 3,000mhz or close so of course I repeated what I did several times which involved my pc doing a lot of the weird 4-5 times of turning on and off like I stated before and then I said I have 2 sticks of 8gbs of ram maybe they're in the wrong slots and so I found out they were, my mobo wants for DDR4_1 and DDR4_2 to be used meanwhile I had 1 stick in DDR4_1 and the other in DDR4_4. I was also trying to fix the LED lighting that my case has since it wasn't working due to it not being connected.
After all that tweaking which I had guidance on, I put my PC back onto my desk I plugged just the power chord into the power supply to see if I fixed the led lighting my case has, pressed the power button and that's when I heard a pop and saw a almost medium size spark shoot out of the vent next to where I plugged the power chord into the PSU, I didn't hear sounds of my PC booting or see any lights from my PC. I then unplugged it plugged it back in still no answer from my PC I used a different cable to plug into the power supply still no answer so I said well I guess I fried the PSU what I'm speculating is the power strip I had the power chord connected to that has 5 other things connected to it and on caused for my power supply to pop as I guess it couldn't handle everything connected to it but what's weird is everything that was connected to the power strip was still on and everything connected to it was still getting power it's just my PC. I tried a different outlet still no luck I also didn't see any smoke or smell anything weird I didn't bother smelling the inside cause I was scared and shocked. Didn't see any burn marks as well.
I then unplugged everything and issued a RMA now getting a new one what I'd like to know is the possible cause and how to get my ram to run at rated speeds below is exactly what this RIG has, also should I buy a power surge?Is there a possibility that I blew out other components from this happening? Any help will be greatly appreciated remember I'm a REAL NOOB understand a bit of the basics maybe less than basics lol but my dad is a computer wiz but I can't reach out to him all the time as he's busy. Just another thing to mention I played my first game Player Unkowns Battlegrounds and it was running horrible frames dropped game froze for 5 second sometimes longer and unfroze for a quick sec and the whole screen was just all glitchy looking now I know I have descent specs any advice as to what I should do?
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-AB350 gaming 3
Video card: MSI Radeon RX 580 DirectX 12 RX 580 GAMING X 8G 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support
Memory: GeIL EVO POTENZA 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory Model GPR416GB3000C15ADC
CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 1500X 4-Core 3.5 GHz (3.7 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 65W YD150XBBAEBOX Desktop Processor
PSU: EVGA 700 WATT BRONZE 80 PLUS POWER SUPPLY
Case: Phanteks Eclipse P400
1TB Samsung Internal hard drive don't know the exact specs
Windows 10 Pro
KEYBOARD: BAKTH Unique Premium Adjustable 7 Color Illuminated LED Backlight Wired Multimedia USB Gaming Keyboard and Mouse Set Combos Bundle + Customized Large Mouse Mat
Monitor: BenQ Zowie RL2755
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