i was having some trouble with my pc last nite, i found a fix which was to remove the grahpics card then put it back in but it happend again today and i did something very very bad.... i flicked the volatage switch on the back of my psu and i heard a pop and saw a spark.... now the pc wont turn on will i be able to replace the psu? or is the whole PC fried
PSU FAIL`
- Thread starter ekam
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yeah that one
Was probably a poor PSU anyway, a decent one auto-senses between 110v and 230 v. Use this as a opportunity to get a decent PSU.
yeah it was but i had some decent parts in that PC hope i didnt waste my money.... and fry the lot
well i had blue screen, i restarted and the windows logo comes on saying laoding etc, that screen had white dots all over it, when it got into windows th resolution 800 by 600 it didnt recognise the gpu it says device cannot start code 10
Ah, unfortunately you killed it
Time for a new PSU. You will be very unlikely to be able to do an RMA replacement. You can try but you will have to pay for outward postage and they may bill you if/when they figure out what happened.
If you can tell us your PC specs we can specify you a good replacement.
As for whether the rest of the system is dead - you won't be able to tell until you have a working PSU to test it with. Just make sure you don't try and turn the PC on again with the bust PSU, i'd take it out of the case ASAP.
i kinda pressed the on button again when the pop happend but ive un plugged my pc now
i got 2 gig ram @ 800 mhz
geforce 8800GT
250 gig hdd
intell e8400 processor