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My PC has been running completely fine for the last year until it tripped a circuit breaker tonight and now I think I bricked it. I have been playing the Spiderman game all week without any issues until I started to smell a burning smell tonight. Less than a minute later the circuit breaker...

so recently I bought new case lian li 216 and gammax deep cool aio cooler i took my motherboard and all my components to new case installed it and i pressed the start button motherboard and all the fans with rgb in aio was flashing for 3 seconds and went off and didn't power on again until i...

As I started up my first game today, within 5 minutes my pc shutdown then proceeded to spark and pop from around the CPU/GPU area. There was no smell whatsoever and the PC restarted without issue and no errors appeared in windows once I was logged in. Using windows normally there has been no...

Hi. few days ago we Bought a new pc and everything was good but unfortunately we plugged in power cord incompletely in psu. and when we turned it on, we heard a spark. after that we fixed the problem and now computer works very good , without any shut down or any problem. but can that spark...

Hi everyone, I'm very new to this and I'm in a panic. I picked up a used Acer x34a and it was working perfectly well. When I brought it home, I accidentally touched the power pin (I did not insert it) with an incorrect power adapter. I then saw a spark and a smell of burning. I am unsure as to...

Hello everyone, one day I was playing on the PC and suddenly the computer stopped, I tried to restart it and the spark jumped from the motherboard. I changed the motherboard, and again the same thing, it just started a little but, the monitor and keyboard did not started, then it stopped just...

If any of you has any knowledge about this please share. I have just bought the PSU model listed in the title and have been using it for 5 days. Today when i went and powered on my PC there was a loud bang and spark of electrixity (I'm not sure of the exact location of where on the PSU the...

I built my second custom pc. Once plugged into the wall I then turned it on at the wall then the back of the power supply. When I hit the switch on the power supply it sparked with a loud noise. My pc booted fine and seems to be running fine, I am currently installing games on it right now...

Hi all, Recently I built a new system, see parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/spagboll/saved/RhqrrH Used it for over 2 months now Noticed sparking whilst plugged in, but turned off - so I moved it to another socket It then made a spark sound while turned on, and no longer switches on at...

The power supply in question is Corsair TX-M 750 Gold 80+. Note that it is literally 1 month old. I was using my PC when suddenly I heard a loud banging noise and my PC instantly turned off. I tried turning the PSU on and off again, but when I'd try to turn it on, I'd hear a noise accompanied by...

Specs: RX 480 8GB i5-7600k 16GB (4GBx4) DDR4/3000MHz GIGABYTE GA-Z270X-ULTRA GAMING ATX 850 Watts - EVGA SuperNOVA 850 GQ 80 PLUS Gold I was just on YouTube and all of a sudden my PC shutdown and restarted back up immediately. But I noticed a burnt smell and looked down and saw a spark trail...

I plugged a fan into the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) and when I tried to power on the PC I saw some sparks and then I immediately unplug the power. My motherboard doesn't work anymore, Intel DH61WW. How bad it is and are my components good anymore?

when playing games my core clock will drop from 1040mhz to somewhere in the 900s or drop to 1000. When this happens the framerate lowers and i notice the stuttering. No overclocks. I'm just wondering what the deal is.

Looking for a nice heatsink to OC to 4-4.5ghz on my Fx 6300

Hey guys, I'm building my first gaming rig - well, the first one built by myself, and I'd like some feedback on the components I've chosen. I just want to check I won't be throttling any of the components, my cooling is efficient, particularly when overclocking my CPU, and whether my PSU will...