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PSU gone?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:45 pm
by joe4holly
erm..  was playing gta 4  comp turns off and will not turn on, even changed the power cable. No life at all in it. Will my SSD be fine ?

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:22 am
by Comadevil
Well wait for a while and disconnect the power cable. Then it can turn on again.
SSD will be fine

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:09 pm
by joe4holly
Still no life  , not a single led even turned on. Strange thing is there was never a smell of a burned out psu.I pluged in my old psu but it did not have the correct number of pins and it had the smell of a burned out psu.

Time to order a new one , or could the whole motherboard , cpu and graphics card be gone as well ?

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:57 pm
by Comadevil
Well if no leds at all are burning then i guess the psu is broken or the fuse(?) of the psu is broken.

I don't think that the rest is broken except u got lightning puncture(?).

(?) means i don't know if it is the correct words

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:14 pm
by joe4holly
I swaped power cables / plug into the wall.  It was pluged into surge protector so lighting , power spike etc it should be safe from. The fuse box did not go, bit stange as it cut the power when a light bulb goes.

Thinking about it the psu is under a year old so it might still be under warranty.

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:34 pm
by Comadevil
The PSU itself has also a fuse

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:42 pm
by joe4holly
is it easy to get to ? I thought PSU are hard to get open

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:55 pm
by Comadevil
I don't know. I was never in the situation to check it, though if u open it, it voids the guarantee i presume.
So it is best to make use of the warranty.
Maybe u have access to a friends comp with a powerful enough PSU to verify if it is really the PSU

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 9:01 pm
by joe4holly
dose 20 or 24pin psu matter ? I got a old 500w 20 pin from my old desktop, still no life but could check again with it.

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:23 pm
by Comadevil
It will work only with an adapter cable and the 500W PSU should also have the additional connectors for the CPU power.

Re: PSU gone?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 6:01 pm
by joe4holly
Got a full refund on it today.  The same psu gone up £10 so looking at some others as well.