Recent content by KingOfTheStoneH

Just for clarity: I have now 100% certainty that it is the PSU: This morning I heard a loud bang and saw sparks coming out of the PSU with the PC still being turned off. Unplugged everything now and took the PSU out of the system. I currently do now know if any other PC parts have been damaged...

Thanks for the quick reply! I mistyped there, I actually meant the 8-pin for the CPU power supply on the motherboard. Is it even possible to have any of those issues with the PC being turned off? I ran it for two weeks without any issues.

Hi all, I recently build a PC and for the last two weeks, it was working perfectly fine. Today, while I was not at home, my girlfriend heard a small "explosion" and saw grey smoke roughly in the area of my PC. The power chord was plugged in and the PSU switch was set to "on" but the PC was not...