is it still safe

[aminal808]

Hi so I got bored last night and decided to try and plug in a old HD but when I turned the pc on the hd sparked and a bit of smoke came out. I unplugged it and plugged my hd back in and the pc still turns on as usual and nothing smells smokey inside the pc case. Now I was planning to buy a new gpu and ssd tomorrow, would it be still be safe to plug the ssd and gpu in? Is my system ok if everything still functions as usual?

 

[aminal808]

Im using a seasonic x660 gold rated psu if that helps

 

[Spectre694]

Sounds like that HDD fried.I would do a check with a multimeter real quick see what it is at to make sure it was just a bad HDD.

 

[aminal808]

Im pretty limited where im living at currently and doubt they have something like that to test the hdd.

 

[aminal808]

When the hdd fries, is the rest of the system usually still ok?

 

[Spectre694]

When the hdd fries, is the rest of the system usually still ok?

Usually if it fried because the drive was bad not due to a short or PSU surge. If you can't get a multimeter use Hwmonitor which will tell you aprox where the voltages are.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

The multimeter is for testing the PSU outputs it is more accurate than software.

 

[aminal808]

Ill be checking ina bit but would the pc still be able to function normally like that if the psu was to blame? Everything turns on and runs fine after the old hd fried

 

[Spectre694]

Ill be checking ina bit but would the pc still be able to function normally like that if the psu was to blame? Everything turns on and runs fine after the old hd fried

Everything is probably good but I can't tell you for sure.