So i have this old computer from 2015 that i had build at the time and i was looking to sell it to a friend for cheap(it was working flawlessly until today...). I wanted to add a fan and put new thermal paste, which i did today. it worked fine for an hour, then it shut down on its own. I started it again, and 5 minuts later it shut down again. Only this time time it wouldn't start. No fan, no beep, but the led on the motherboard was lit.
I tried to understand what was going on and to make things worse, i foolishly pushed a button on the power supply unit, thinking it wouldn't hurt because the computer wasn't turned on and it actually changed the voltage to 115 and fryed my psu.....
Needless to say i feel like an absolute idiot today. I was probably too tired to do stuff but i tried anyway. My psu was rather high quality and i have a few questions:
Any help is appreciated
I tried to understand what was going on and to make things worse, i foolishly pushed a button on the power supply unit, thinking it wouldn't hurt because the computer wasn't turned on and it actually changed the voltage to 115 and fryed my psu.....
Needless to say i feel like an absolute idiot today. I was probably too tired to do stuff but i tried anyway. My psu was rather high quality and i have a few questions:
- What went wrong initially to cause this issue? i think it's either linked to the processor or the additional fan... probably the processor. I did a put a bit too much thermal paste.
- is the motherboard/cpu dead after the psu incident? There was just a spark in the psu and it went off.
- How hard would it be to fix my psu by changing parts? or maybe just a fuse? it was a xilence xp420. i'm really angry at myself and i'm considering taking a day to fix this. But then i have also the starting issue!
Any help is appreciated