PSU Died

joelk2 · 24 Feb 2021 at 08:58

So I’m pretty sure my PSU died last night. Left my pc on last night. Quite often do. This morning there was a well funky smell and pc was off. From my untrained nose the smell seemed to be coming from the psu. How likely is it that the rest of my computer is borked?

joelk2 · 24 Feb 2021 at 09:55

pastymuncher said:
Depends on the psu. What make and model is it? If it's a decent psu then hopefully the safety systems will have kicked in. If it's a poor psu then it could be anything from you have been extremely lucky and nothing has fried to losing everything.

It was an Antec HCG 620w which I bought based on good reviews back in 2013, has been running fine since then.
I have ordered a new super flower 650w from ocuk so hopefully that comes tomorrow and I can get back up and running. Fingers crossed it’s just the psu that has gone.

joelk2 · 24 Feb 2021 at 13:31

pastymuncher said:
That's a good psu so hopefully it will have protected your other components.

Really hoping so.
Just for information, what would be the best way to fault find if not? Just replace each part piece by piece?

joelk2 · 24 Feb 2021 at 14:41

Just hope ocuk send out my psu for delivery tomorrow now.

joelk2 · 26 Feb 2021 at 12:57

phew, new psu arrived and all up and running.