Did PSU fry my whole PC?

[haider95]

I got done playing some GTAV and was talking to my friends on steam when my PC turned itself off unexpectedly. I initially thought a mains switch had flipped and thats why it went off as its happened once before. Couldn't get PC to turn on after that, started breadboarding, removed all ram and my GTX970 until all that remained was PSU (EVGA GS550 Gold standard) and Mobo (Asus H81M-PLUS). PC would turn on for a split second and then turn off. Nothing worked so I went to my friends house and borrowed his old Dell PSU. Plugged it in to mobo and cpu socket and the fans fired up immediately and stayed on but the motherboard didnt give me any "No ram" beeps. Is it safe to assume that the EVGA PSU fried my system? what are the chances that the mobo/ cpu/ gpu/ ram are dead?

 

[Ryan_78]

its a high quality PSU it wouldn't be my first to say its the PSU. It is from a reputable brand and High quality. But also check the rest of the system. does it boot up into windows and allows you to watch youtube on the dell PSU? I mean if everything works fine, then jump the green wire from your 24pin connector to any adjacent black wire on your EVGA unit and turn the power supply on. if it doesn't spin up then its dead. you can check online for the paper clip method. anyways I know EVGA PSU are supposed to come with a thingy that clips onto your 24pin to jump it

 

[haider95]

its a high quality PSU it wouldn't be my first to say its the PSU. It is from a reputable brand and High quality. But also check the rest of the system. does it boot up into windows and allows you to watch youtube on the dell PSU? I mean if everything works fine, then jump the green wire from your 24pin connector to any adjacent black wire on your EVGA unit and turn the power supply on. if it doesn't spin up then its dead. you can check online for the paper clip method. anyways I know EVGA PSU are supposed to come with a thingy that clips onto your 24pin to jump it

thanks for the reply. The guy who gifted me this PC is really freaking out as he believes that the PSU may have taken everything else in the PC with it. Whats the possibility that it could have done that? I didnt hear any loud noises come from the PSU, it simply shut down without any warning. Im hoping the other components in the PC are fine and its just the PSU. Unfortunately the Dell PSU wont power the 970 as it has no 6 pin connectors and I dont want to use the EVGA any longer as Im gonna be RMA'ing it tomorrow.

 

[Bearmann]

Does Dell still use proprietary wiring for their PSU's? I wouldn't hook up that Dell anymore.

 

[haider95]

Does Dell still use proprietary wiring for their PSU's? I wouldn't hook up that Dell anymore.

Update; used friends PSU and GPU and got PC to post. Thankfully it didn't fry anything, it was definitely the psu. Will be RMA'ing it soon

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Yep use that handy 5 year warranty. Any unit can fail.