Bang... there goes the psu but what else

breedalot

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my pc stopped loading in to windows yesterday first i tried to reinstall and repair the os thinking it was a software issues but that didn't work so i tried swapping out components my bios has memtest built in so i ran that and it showed errors in the ram so i swapped that out and nothing.

i then disconnected all the drives but nothing there ether so cpu or mobo were left (i am using an on board gpu at the moment)

so i swapped out the cpu and.... bang and a flash my psu had blown i am not sure why and i have already ordered a new one but i am not sure if this was the original problem or due to me (i don't think i did anything wrong and i have repaired lots of PCs)

i am guessing that my mobo (brand new) may be blown and the memory(also new) and the cpu my spare so not new! it was a hyper psu if that helps but what do you think will be dead? i wont find out till the new psu arrives!
 
Depending on the store you might not be able to RMA, i had a similiar situation and they didn't RMA because they said i could be making a fraudulent claim from a bad overclock (since it was fried).

I'm with ghislainG on this part, if it literally blew up you could search for phsical damage first which i'm sure you probably already did.

All that i've read about hyper leads me to believe it is a bomb brand, but based on the explosion? that you witnessed i would guess that the electricity didn't make it over into your other components or you would have smelled the damage more than anything.

EDIT: For clarity purposes i meant to say in the last paragraph that if your room was very saturated with the smell of fried components or that you could hear sizzling, i don't think anything else was damaged
 
ok so the hhd led comes on solide and the power led does to. the fans come on and stay on. the mobo error leds stay off which means a cpu or memory error or general configoration error. the ethernet ports do flash away fine but the keybord just has know leds working and there is no image on the screan i think the mobo has gone is there anything worth trying i have reset the bios jumper and taken the ram out and i get no beeps ether way!