hubcap1324
IS-IT--Management
Well I am a Network tech not a PC tech and it may show here......
I leave my pc on almost all the time, well I woke up this morning and that familiar noise I hear every morning wasn't there, my pc was silent. I disconnected the PS from the motherboard just for fun and still no power. The LAN light lights up though but no fans try to power or anything. Obviously it sounds like a PS so I go to Best Buy and purchase a Dynex 500W ATX PS. (My original PS was 420) I plug everything in checked my connections, plug it in and hit the power button. I see fans start to spin and for a seconf I thought all was well, then everything stopped, and a loud pop, then smoke....lol.
System Specs:
Custom build unit MSI MS6570 Mobo, AMD CPU 2600+
3 hard Drives, 1 DVD Burner
Nvidis GeFroce 4 Video 256MB
2 case fans
Incase you are wondering I did ensure the switch on the back of the PS was set at 115 for US....
I am kind of afraid to do much else here like try another PS. Doesn't seem possible to me that an issue with my mobo or cpu could make a PS pop and smoke like that but like I said I am not a PC tech. Possibly a bad PS from Best Buy? It looks like a standard ATX PS. Motherboard issue? CPU? I am kind of stumped here now and hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction....
I leave my pc on almost all the time, well I woke up this morning and that familiar noise I hear every morning wasn't there, my pc was silent. I disconnected the PS from the motherboard just for fun and still no power. The LAN light lights up though but no fans try to power or anything. Obviously it sounds like a PS so I go to Best Buy and purchase a Dynex 500W ATX PS. (My original PS was 420) I plug everything in checked my connections, plug it in and hit the power button. I see fans start to spin and for a seconf I thought all was well, then everything stopped, and a loud pop, then smoke....lol.
System Specs:
Custom build unit MSI MS6570 Mobo, AMD CPU 2600+
3 hard Drives, 1 DVD Burner
Nvidis GeFroce 4 Video 256MB
2 case fans
Incase you are wondering I did ensure the switch on the back of the PS was set at 115 for US....
I am kind of afraid to do much else here like try another PS. Doesn't seem possible to me that an issue with my mobo or cpu could make a PS pop and smoke like that but like I said I am not a PC tech. Possibly a bad PS from Best Buy? It looks like a standard ATX PS. Motherboard issue? CPU? I am kind of stumped here now and hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction....