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Right, bit of a disaster...
I turned the PC on this afternoon and all was fine, and set it running folding@home. I left it alone to grab some lunch and it turned of the screen as normal. I came back to check, wiggled the mouse to get it to turn the screen input back on, and all was well - for about 20 secs. Suddenly all power died. To be honest, i presumed it was a power cut, but noticed that the screen was still on. The PC then started to turn on again (not under my influence - like a power cut had taken place), at which point, i heard what could best be described as a 'pop' sound, and power died. I quickly tunred off the mains power, and i have a feeling that there was a bit of a funny smell in the air. The thing also tripped the ring main - all of which gives a pretty good indication that the thing has died.
My question really is what should i do? I dont really want to try and turn the PC on again in case its dead and it frys some of the other components. I also do not know how to tell if the rest of the insides will be alright - how likely is it to have taken out some other parts of the PC? The PSU is well within its warranty (only a few months old), so i can RMA. I dont have another PSU to hand, so would have to buy a replacement for testing.
The PSU was a 620w corsair modular supply (the red one!). The PC had a Q6600, a 9800GX2, a couple of disk drives + hard drives and a few extra case fans - nothing too much really. A power meter indicated it was pulling less than half of the PSUs rated wattage under full load, so i doubt it was caused by overloading. When i first bought it it made a strange squeaking noise, but was told by the retailer that if the power rails were stable then i would not be able to get it replaced... shame, because i guess it actually was faulty!
Thanks, any advice would be appreciated.
I turned the PC on this afternoon and all was fine, and set it running folding@home. I left it alone to grab some lunch and it turned of the screen as normal. I came back to check, wiggled the mouse to get it to turn the screen input back on, and all was well - for about 20 secs. Suddenly all power died. To be honest, i presumed it was a power cut, but noticed that the screen was still on. The PC then started to turn on again (not under my influence - like a power cut had taken place), at which point, i heard what could best be described as a 'pop' sound, and power died. I quickly tunred off the mains power, and i have a feeling that there was a bit of a funny smell in the air. The thing also tripped the ring main - all of which gives a pretty good indication that the thing has died.
My question really is what should i do? I dont really want to try and turn the PC on again in case its dead and it frys some of the other components. I also do not know how to tell if the rest of the insides will be alright - how likely is it to have taken out some other parts of the PC? The PSU is well within its warranty (only a few months old), so i can RMA. I dont have another PSU to hand, so would have to buy a replacement for testing.
The PSU was a 620w corsair modular supply (the red one!). The PC had a Q6600, a 9800GX2, a couple of disk drives + hard drives and a few extra case fans - nothing too much really. A power meter indicated it was pulling less than half of the PSUs rated wattage under full load, so i doubt it was caused by overloading. When i first bought it it made a strange squeaking noise, but was told by the retailer that if the power rails were stable then i would not be able to get it replaced... shame, because i guess it actually was faulty!
Thanks, any advice would be appreciated.
