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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.