MY PC Nightmare

All right, so i cant help but tinker, but this time i think i finally learned my lesson. I bought some nice blue cable sleeves and went to work and then when i plugged everything back in i realized that i frgt to turn off or unplug my PSU. I tried a million things and finally took it to a local store were they told me that i fried the Mobo. Its a gigabyte S5 with a AMD x2 4200 (AM2) processor i RMA'ed the Mobo and am waiting for the replacement when i had a sudden thought. How do i know that i didn't fry the CPU as well? Everything should work fine w/the new Mobo right?

Wait, what were you using the blue cable sleeve on? PSU cables? HD/CD cables?

How can you not notice that the PSU was still running, or the fans spinning? Or are you saying that you had the PSU plugged into a wall socket?

I've changed components with the PSU still plugged to a wall socket, for grounding. Not turned on, just plugged into a socket. Hell, I've had the PSU switch on "ON" (but not running) and change stuff on a motherboard, and not have it fry.

What did you try? How do you know that you didn't fry or pop a capacitor in the PSU itself?

Just curious...

**edit**
Could you even power up the fans in the system? If not, you might have tripped the breaker of the PSU (some PSUs have breakers inside of them).

Oh, okay. I wasn't too sure what you were sleeving up.

I've had that same thing happen to me, but I didn't fry anything (plugging in the big motherboard connection, and have it quickly turn on then off).

If the guy you brought your system to smelled something, that doesn't automatically mean motherboard, unless you notice some capacitors blown up or a burnt resistor. My PSU blew up once (when I was tinkering around with it) and it smelt to kingdom come for a good hour.

Well, I hope the motherboard fix does the trick for you. Good luck.