Loud pop and pc won't start

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I was about 15 minutes into playing some Total War Rome 2 on my barely 3 week old pc and there was an almighty pop and the pc shut down and will not restart. I imagine it is the power supply but there are no dodgy smells or smoke. I haven't had anything like this happen before.

How should I handle this? As I am terrified it's just gone and fried a couple grands worth of components! Should I even attempt to power back up or might I risk damaging things?

The specs are:

PSU: Corsair AX1200i
CPU: Intel 5930k
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro H110
Motherboard: Asus X99-E WS
RAM: DDR4 16GB Corsair dominator platinum 2666
GPU: Galaxy GeForce GTX970 OC silent infinity black edition

The machine was behaving perfectly fine prior to it happening, I have yet to overclock it so everything was still running stock specs.
 
Got access to another PSU?

pull the PSU cables out and short the 24pins green wire to a black wire which will start it up.

But im going to have a guess that all the wires are black on that PSU for "looks"?

Thanks for the advice, unfortunately I don't have a spare and yes the wires are all black
 
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