Hey
Earlier today I was playing a game and suddenly the monitor went black and my PC shut off almost immediately. As I looked towards my PC I felt a smell as if something was being burned and quickly switches off the power supply on the back (as well as taking the power cable out), then opened the case up and there was a minor amount of smoke rising too. I have not attempted to start it since.
As far as I can tell the smoke was coming from the power supply. What I'm wondering is what to do now. After googling a bit I've seen some people claim all parts will be broken in the PC, while others say to just swap the power supply.
Is it reasonable to buy a new PSU and install it, then try to boot the PC up then, and if that still fails accept that more of the PC is broken? What is a good way to go about this?
Thanks
Earlier today I was playing a game and suddenly the monitor went black and my PC shut off almost immediately. As I looked towards my PC I felt a smell as if something was being burned and quickly switches off the power supply on the back (as well as taking the power cable out), then opened the case up and there was a minor amount of smoke rising too. I have not attempted to start it since.
As far as I can tell the smoke was coming from the power supply. What I'm wondering is what to do now. After googling a bit I've seen some people claim all parts will be broken in the PC, while others say to just swap the power supply.
Is it reasonable to buy a new PSU and install it, then try to boot the PC up then, and if that still fails accept that more of the PC is broken? What is a good way to go about this?
Thanks