my psu exploded!!

[spacegrass]

I received a new hsf today, the artic cooling freezer 64 pro.

After a titanic struggle lifting off the stock a64 hsf and cleaning the residue, I was finally able to attach the new beast of a hsf.

I then checked to see if any cables had come loose in my heroic struggle, but everything seemednd to be in order.

So I reattached all the cables, however I had not turned off the switch for the psu at the back and also the mains socket was on (there was someone sharing my wifi connection so I didnt want to kick them off).

On inserting the cable for the psu, there was a loud bang accompanied by a bright white flash. After I had recovered and cursed to myself for being such a nit, I gently opened up the case, couldnt see any smoke just a smell of burning coming from the psu.

Since I am no pc builder I have not installed the mobo in the other pc to check it...is there a chance I have broken it?

Also the psu itself was quite cheap from a company called sumvision but it was 500 watts.

 

[spacegrass]

well I saw was a bright white flash, no smoke, and only a burning smell from the psu and nothing else.

I couldnt see any damaged circuits on the motherboard and the components looked ok.

 

[spacegrass]

I had a nightmare getting the clips off the retension bracket...maybe a smaller bracket than usual on my mobo.

 

[spacegrass]

I managed to find a very old 230v psu which it states is an athlon psu, however it only allows for a htt of 133mhz to be used.

Also there is a four pin square motherboard connector that the broken psu has but this old one doesnt.

 

[spacegrass]

are hiper psu's any good? they are recommended by amd and the 580watt model is pretty cheap from pc world.