Recent content by troys1989

I didn't actually think I fixed it, it was more to provide a context of the situation and how things had happened. It would never last longer than 30 or so minutes before and for some reason it worked for 4 days when I plugged it in, just wanted to express that - since I'm a super newb I wasn't...

So a friend of mine built my pc for me (I don't know very much) and it worked fine for a period of around a month or two. I then began experiencing a shut down and the bios screen would pop up saying that a surge was detected in the psu and it shut down the computer. I bought an external surge...