Graphics card lights up but computer won't turn on.

[Looking4Llamas]

Hey guys, last night I was playing a game of counter strike and out of nowhere my screen turned to black but all of the case fans were still running. When I held down the power button to turn the computer off, nothing happened so I turned it off at the mains. When I opened it up the PSU was extremely hot. I've tried reseating the mobo cables, ram and graphics card. When plugged in the light on the graphics card does light up. Is this likely to be a fried PSU? I'd also like to add that I've had this psu for a good 5 years now.

 

[Woody1999]

Can you send us your system specs please? PSU included.

It looks like a bad PSU, it might have died on you at last.

Woody

 

[Looking4Llamas]

I'm running an AMD 8320 8 core cpu with a stock heatsink fan, a MSI 970A-G43 mobo, an Asus AMD readon 7850 graphic card, 8GB of corsair Xms3 RAM, a 750GB HDD, 60GB ssd and the PSU is a cheap Storm one, 600W I believe, which is also why I suspect it failed. Thanks for your help and I apologise for the poor formating as I am writing this on my phone.
EDIT: I've inspected the PSU label closer and it turns out it's a Storm LPK19-30

 

[Woody1999]

Almost definitely the PSU! Storm are a tier 5 PSU manufacturer, should be avoided at all costs. That PSU would be more useful as a door stop rather than as a power supply.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Before you splash out on a new one, however, have you any other power supplies you can try? Also, have you tried breadboarding your system?

Woody

 

[Looking4Llamas]

Apologies for the late reply. I am planning to take my PC to a local shop to see if I can test one of their PSU's. I'm not very familiar with what bread boarding is but I will put some research into it. Thanks for the help.

 

[Woody1999]

Okay, sounds good.

Breadboading is the act of stripping your PC down to the basics, and slowly adding components to the build until it no longer boots (or POSTs). You should start by having just the motherboard, CPU + cooler, and a single stick of RAM installed. Seeing as you have no integrated graphics, you will need to use your graphics card as well.

You should have the motherboard sitting on top of it's box, and a motherboard speaker to listen for beep codes. Here's an example with a bit too much stuff plugged in:

Woody