Power Surge?

Welshy

Welshy

Welshy

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Hey guys.

A couple of weeks ago, I plugged my external hard drive plug into the same block of sockets on the wall as my PC. My PC then instantly turned off and wouldn't turn back on again. After a little troubleshooting I found that the PSU and motherboard were both dead and I'm in the process of RMAing them.

Now, it'll prove a little more difficult to troubleshoot the other components as I'll have to convince friends to let me try them out on their PCs! Does this sound like a power surge, in which case yes they are possibly all fried, or could there be another explanation?

Thanks
 
Perhaps it's dodgey wiring in the socket or something along those lines, could have shorted and caused some problems. Maybe worth taking the socket cover off and having a look (with the power off of course!). Does the socket work for other stuff? It'd be a large coincidence if the two things weren't related imo.
 
You mean every appliance you plug in that particular socket becomes faulty or maybe it is your psu? what other stuff you got plug into that socket?
 
I've got a extension cable with 4 sockets on it, which at the time had my PC, speakers, monitor and xbox plugged into it. They all still work fine (minus the PC obviously). Wouldn't be confident opening it up and having a look as I wouldn't have a clue what I'm looking for.

How much would you guys estimate it would cost to take the rest of my components to get tested a local PC shop? I've got a few parts that I'm not sure I can test in my friends PCs (don't think any of they have a board to support a quad CPU for example).
 
OK, I thought it was straight into the wall. For the record, I always have my pcs into surge protectors, they're cheap too, OCUK stock them.

I work at a local PC shop, and we'd base the quote on time taken. To test all the components could take a while, i'd suggest asking your mates nicely first!
 
I don't suppose there'd be a risk my friends motherboard if my CPU/GPU/RAM/HDD were indeed fried?

I'm a little new to broken PCs...
 
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