not work). When you put your nose in the case and sniff around, as well as smell the power supply, do you detect any acrid oder? If so, something may have burned out. See if you can detect anything like that. A power surge may have done some damage while you...

be up and running again in a few days. Ill try the paper clip trick, but you think it's completely dead even though I still get some power? All this from a power surge?? jeezee Nexter wrote: "All this from a surge??" Hey, that surge could have fried your...

the case with it plugged in and the PC running (I know, pretty stupid but I was in a hurry) One of the power connectors caught on the case frame and shorted out the MOBO. Luckily everything else still worked fine. I power off and unplug the power cord...

supply. That is why I replaced the power supply. But the PC still reacted the same way after the power supply was replaced. So now I'm assuming that the damage went further than the power supply. Since the next component to get the power surge would be...

your power now stable ? If it is replug in the power supply and see if your system will boot up by pushing the power button. If it won't then there's a chance that the power surge fried something. PSU may be fried, but of course if you were using a nice UPS...

MoBo fried or possibly the case?. I think my Motherboard took a hit in a lightning storm through my ethernet port. I had heard a crackling sound during a storm but the lights in my house didn't even flicker which leads me to believe it wasn't a power surge...

Card) for his comp and installed it. Now the internet works on that computer. So what I think happened was the power surge fried the router and went through the Ethernet cables and fried the Ethernet port on both of our motherboards. Today I went and got...

Is my Antec PS giving me bad volts????. Well, some of you may know that my dad's PC died from a power surge that fried his PSU. So, we bought an Antec Smartpower 2.0 400 Watt PSU to replace it. However, as I am looking at the volts right now (through ASUS...

Computer Error. A power surge fried my computer. I replaced the motherboard, cpu chip, and video card. I have not installed the hard drive yet. When I turn on the computer I get the message, "Check your PC and Signal Cable." Does anyone know what this means?...