comp popped now pooped,

skurnicki

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Oct 2, 2014
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I'm truly stumped I was playing on my PC and I heard a pop smelled a burnt smell and then my comp shut off I searched for blown caps and there is non that I can tell also there's power from the psu cuz my USB devices still power up when I turn on the back switch please help
 
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5V output can still work even when the 12V output has failed. Check for blown fuses or resistors in addition to blown capacitors. If the protection did it's job the capacitors are still safe.

Buying a new power supply is the safest option. Though it could be a computer component that shorted that caused the power supply to fail.
Smell the PSU. Does it smell burnt?

Sounds weird. But smell around your PC. It could be the GPU also.

If you can´t make out any visual causes for the problem like dust on the coolers or burnt capacitors or something like that, I´d try to boot it up with a minimal configuration. Only PSU, motherboard, CPU and one RAM stick. If you have no onboard graphics, you also would need to connect the GPU.
 
5V output can still work even when the 12V output has failed. Check for blown fuses or resistors in addition to blown capacitors. If the protection did it's job the capacitors are still safe.

Buying a new power supply is the safest option. Though it could be a computer component that shorted that caused the power supply to fail.
 
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