Pop/bang type noise from inside chassis, followed by picture flooding with green and pink lines? hel

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so i was just sitting at my rig, minding my own business (not doing anything intensive, machine nearly idle) and then i think i heard a bang (which sounds like it could have been a chip or a cap exploding) and then the screen filled with pink and green fuzzly lines, (but the picture was still visible, just made up of these lines) so i shut down the pc, unplugged everything, shoved on my antistat band and took a look. The motherboard all seems perfectly fine, as does everything on it.

I assumed that it would be the graphics card (as it was a refurbished unit from nvidia + the picture issue), so i booted the system using the onboard HD3000 graphics and all was fine.

I then put the GTX480 back in just to try my luck i guess, and to my surprise, it all started up fine, it runs stable (no overclock), benches the same as before, and gets straight 7.9's in the exp index, just like before.

Anyone have any ideas as to what may have happened?
 
Well this happened when my PSU blew up, only obviously it died and took my ram as well, but check all the heads on capacators, thats what blows :)
 
i am using the computer right now by the way, it still appears to be absolutely fine...

is it possible that it could have been a software problem? drivers or such..?

i said 'i think i heard a bang' rather than 'i heard a bang' because it is possible that i either imagined it, or it was just something falling over... i was wearing headphones at the time
 
acme15 said:
i am using the computer right now by the way, it still appears to be absolutely fine...

is it possible that it could have been a software problem? drivers or such..?

i said 'i think i heard a bang' rather than 'i heard a bang' because it is possible that i either imagined it, or it was just something falling over... i was wearing headphones at the time
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Or too much to drink? :P
 
Personally I wouldn't use it until you physically take the PSU apart and have a look to see if anything did actually explode inside of it. Are your rails all normal? Check in bios for the 12v 5v and 3.3v readings if you aren't sure of what I refer to.
 
Visually check the psu and gfx card. If you do take the psu apart be very very careful.

Is there any smell coming from the psu (sniff by exhaust) or card?
 
Welshdragon speaks a lot of sence there, The smell you should be sniffing for is much like scalextrix when it gets warm ( warmed copper smell is how I describe it otherwise ) if you smell that it's the psu that has gone.
 
well this was a couple of days ago now, would any smell still be there..? :L

i'm happy enough to build a computer or upgrade a computer, but when it comes to messing with individual parts i'm a bit nervous :L
 
the inside of the rig still smells pretty much how it did when it was new... that kind of, new plastic smell.
the exhaust from the graphics card and the psu still smells normal to me... (you know, the smell of a new component... just warmer)
i have deliberately blown up old hardware before (an old 250w psu, an AMD Sempron, a stick of SDRAM, and an old motherboard) so i know the horrible smell of burning/burst caps and the like, none of those smells are present.
 
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The GPU has just come out of warranty. >.<
I am going to re-seat the HSF soon to hopefuly reduce temps, I suppose I will also see if all the caps etc are in good shape.

Revival was half because of that, half because I wasn't really thinking and found this one when I was looking at my old threads to figure out when I built my PC.
 
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