I Fried my Computer ),:

Technology and Gaming Help and Support
#21

It could be possible but from what your telling me I wouldn’t gamble on it. Usually when a computer power supply fuse blows it is because of electrical failure on the AC side of the transformer. It wont cost anything to take off a few screws and check tho.

Recommendations,

  • unplug it :retard:
  • leave it unplugged for a while (good few hours, overnight to be extra safe)
  • just before opening it bridge pin 14 (green wire) to ground(black) this should remove any residual voltage (don’t worry this is save, this simulates pushing the power button.)
  • look but don’t touch. There is no reason to be rubbing your fingers across the bottom of the board. If one of the caps still have power you could bridge just the wrong two pins and light your ass on fire.

Again My guess is that the fuse is fine (It is still sending some power to the board, usually the side effects of a blown fuse is no power whatsoever) and that the thing is borked. Get a new one from newegg, there fairly cheep. I recommend Antec, but Corsair is also equal in quality.

EDIT: Antec is having a sale right now

#22

Actually I fixed my PSU the last time it died (plugged it in a 200v plug while it was set to 100v, silly regional differences :frowning: ) by just replacing the fuse, since it’s usually the one thing that gets fried when you plug something in a higher voltage plug.

But yeah, like FireTime stated, if it’s still getting some power then it most likely means it’s not the fuse, since a fried fuse will interrupt the circuit and there would be no power at all.

#23

When my old PSU fried, it died.

#24

Alright, I’m finally done procrastinating. I haven’t been able to get a hold of another psu to test in my computer, but I’m sick of waiting so I’m going to buy a new psu. I have no idea to tell what kind of psu to get, so I looked at all the power connections in my pc and listed them, I don’t know all the technical terms for them so I’ve just described some of the cables.

4-pin Molex: 6
6-pin: 2 (3x2 pin cables that plug into my nVidia 9800GTX, my old psu only had one 6-pin so I used an adapter that turned two Molexs into one 6-pin)
4-pin: 2 (theses go next to each other into a 2x8 pin slot in the motherbaord)
a 10x2 and a 2x2 that go next to each other and plug into a big 12x2 pin slot in the motherboard

My old psu was 535 watt, but I was told the was a little low, so I would prefer something a little more powerful. I’d prefer something under 100 dollars.

#25

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341018 on sale and has a MIR + free flashdrive

#26

Well, that brightly coloured, in rich text deep meaning full post i made in the advance section went to shit after i saw you were purchasing a new one, fuck.

#27

So that has all the cables I need and then maybe a few extras?

Also, how can I tell how long a sale will last on Newegg?

Lol, sorry. I’m sick of having a broken computer and just want it fixed now.

#28

why do you need so many 4-pin Molex connectors? Rember that you don’t have to use the 2 molex to video card adapter because that power supply has a built in PCI-E powerline. If you need all 6 you may have to get a molex splitter as the one I posted only has 4.
1->2
1Sata->2
1->4

There is no way to predict sales lengths on new egg because they are (with the exception of special ones) based on item stock.If the sale does end $10 says another PS with the same specs will go on sale for the same price a few days later.

#29

My pal had this
he put the wrong kind of rom memory in
mobo had one red light on
seems that it was to note that it died
well if you are lucky the psu died
if not your mobo is rip

and btw i have the most awesomest psu ever
it has 1000watts and its modular
you even get a big cable kit with it

#30

wow, who needs this shit? :expressionless:
oh I forgot, those who bought 2 GTX480 cards…

#31

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I will never buy a cool master product again

EDIT: a similar power supply is an additional $10 off the original sale in the e-blast newsletter with a promo code

#32

I just realized my fans’ molex connectors work like christmas tree light chords and have a female and male on the end so the molexes shouldn’t be a problem. Does that PS you linked have the two six pins needed for the 9800gtx, or does the “PCI-E power line” make it so I don’t need them?

BTW Thanks a lot for all this help, and I apologize for my ignorance.

EDIT: lol, I figured it out, PCI-e is the 6-pin cable. I guess I’ll buy it right now then.

#33

Double post, but, I just got my PSU in the mail and it works great! Thanks a lot for all the help. But now I’m stuck with another problem that started before the computer fried. I can’t connect to our wifi. I think it’s a problem with our modem and the at&t people are coming over this Thursday to fix it.

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