Hi, I hope everyone is well.
About 2 weeks ago my pc died. There was an electrical disturbance (lights flickering and dimming for a good couple seconds) which I presume was either a surge or a brown out. So I immediately went to my pc which was still running and fine, and hit the off button to initiate shutdown. I turned my screen off so I didn't actually see it shutting down but it appeared to do so normally. I then unplugged it from the wall for 15 minutes. When I plugged everything back in there was a complete dead screen. My hdds and dvd-r seemed to come on as well as my fans, but everything else was dead. The next thing I tried was unplugging my screen from my gpu and into my on board graphics, still nothing. I unplugged everything from my mobo minus the ram and psu using on board graphics, still dead. I then took the pc to the garage where I sprayed it lightly with compressed air (using a water trap), took it back down and tried again, still dead. At this point I tried swapping and re seating the ram, no difference. At this point I'm sure either the cpu, mobo, or psu is dead. So I approach the cpu heats ink and i immediately notice it's loose, which i found odd since I hadn't touched it. I took it off and noticed the thermal paste had turned scaley but couldn't do much more at the time and put it back. I then tried 2 separate spare power supplies. Still dead. I should probably mention that before I sprayed compressed air into my case, the fan rpm seemed muh higher than after, another thing I noticed is that afterward it would auto shutdown after a few seconds. I took the pc to a specialist who plugged my cpu into a mobo of his which had the same pin configuration and manufacturer, still nothing. This after cleaning the ram, disconnecting the power switch and jump starting it, also applying new thermal paste.
I'm at the obvious conclusion I need to replace the cpu, mobo and ram but I'm left very confused as to what happened. I have surge protection but it's 2nd hand and I don't know for sure it works or how to check. My psu still turns on but I'm scared plugging a new mobo into it might cause problems. My psu is a corsair cs650m gold at 5 years old. It's not too bad of a psu to my knowledge but could there be any danger here in keeping it? I have no way of knowing if my other components survived either. Bear in mind the other spare psu's I tried did the exact same thing.
Should I keep my psu? Could everything else be dead?
Could someone give me some advice? Would be greatly appreciated!
About 2 weeks ago my pc died. There was an electrical disturbance (lights flickering and dimming for a good couple seconds) which I presume was either a surge or a brown out. So I immediately went to my pc which was still running and fine, and hit the off button to initiate shutdown. I turned my screen off so I didn't actually see it shutting down but it appeared to do so normally. I then unplugged it from the wall for 15 minutes. When I plugged everything back in there was a complete dead screen. My hdds and dvd-r seemed to come on as well as my fans, but everything else was dead. The next thing I tried was unplugging my screen from my gpu and into my on board graphics, still nothing. I unplugged everything from my mobo minus the ram and psu using on board graphics, still dead. I then took the pc to the garage where I sprayed it lightly with compressed air (using a water trap), took it back down and tried again, still dead. At this point I tried swapping and re seating the ram, no difference. At this point I'm sure either the cpu, mobo, or psu is dead. So I approach the cpu heats ink and i immediately notice it's loose, which i found odd since I hadn't touched it. I took it off and noticed the thermal paste had turned scaley but couldn't do much more at the time and put it back. I then tried 2 separate spare power supplies. Still dead. I should probably mention that before I sprayed compressed air into my case, the fan rpm seemed muh higher than after, another thing I noticed is that afterward it would auto shutdown after a few seconds. I took the pc to a specialist who plugged my cpu into a mobo of his which had the same pin configuration and manufacturer, still nothing. This after cleaning the ram, disconnecting the power switch and jump starting it, also applying new thermal paste.
I'm at the obvious conclusion I need to replace the cpu, mobo and ram but I'm left very confused as to what happened. I have surge protection but it's 2nd hand and I don't know for sure it works or how to check. My psu still turns on but I'm scared plugging a new mobo into it might cause problems. My psu is a corsair cs650m gold at 5 years old. It's not too bad of a psu to my knowledge but could there be any danger here in keeping it? I have no way of knowing if my other components survived either. Bear in mind the other spare psu's I tried did the exact same thing.
Should I keep my psu? Could everything else be dead?
Could someone give me some advice? Would be greatly appreciated!
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