Daston Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Hope one of are tech wizards can help with this cause I am stumped. Changed my gfx on Saturday and PC was running sweet. Came down this morning to find one of our fuses had tripped cutting power to downstairs. I flicked the switch back and turned on the TV and kettle etc. I then sat down to read my emails hit the power button on my PC and nothing totally dead. Took the panel off to check all the connections and they are all how I left them. Tried the kettle lead and that's all fine so I looks like the PSU died. However how can this be as my PC was shut down last night and there was still power when I went to bed. Here's the spec Ernmax Noise Taker 650W PSU Asus SLI Deluxe AMD FX-53 2x 80gb SATA Hard drives 2gb Geil RAM XfX 7900 GT 6x fans I am sure the PSU has enough grunt to supply this set up. Any help would be great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Sounds like the PSU defiantly. Even though your PC is shut down, theres still power going through the PSU, sometimes even the mobo for the clock etc depending on make and model. Its a good idea to have a surge protector on the plug to the pc because of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Yeah it's plugged into a surge protector. Could it just be a faulty PSU? If so what can the damage be (dead mobo,cpu gfx?) as I have never seen this happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edd_t Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Sorry to say a variety of things! you could be lucky with just the PSU going bang. but over jobs i've been to i've seen a surge knock out a mobo quite easily. just change the PSU first of all, see what happens from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 doh! Well my G/F's pc is in the same network so will be pinching her parts to test it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guru Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I would change the PSU to your gf's but I would unplug a few bits unless it's a decent PSU..... If it did hurt anything else the list could be big one........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leelbuk Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Mine did that, went on holiday and came back and it was just a dead PSU. I expect M'board should be fine if PSU did its job (most are designed to fail without taking the motherboard with it if possible) but is possible still. Next after that its hard drives and finally CPU. Out of all the computers I have fixed due to faulty PSU's I have never known the CPU or Graphics Card to be affected. Lucky in your case with those expensive components you have! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daston Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 well my psu is dead every thing else is fine so running on a back up 500W psu at the mo until I send my Enermax back to be fixed/replaced/refunded. Plus managed to tip the base unit (stainless steel case) on my little toe ripping the nail off so now bleeding all over the place. God I think its time for a beer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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