Power problems pls help

[starphilosophy]

Motherboard light flicker on and off when the power button is pressed nothing else seems to get powerPls help

 

[InvalidError]

Either the PSU is blown or the motherboard is shorting out. Possibly both if the PSU failed and scrapped the motherboard in the process.

 

[starphilosophy]

How likely is it to damage the mother board

 

[ingtar33]

How likely is it to damage the mother board

when a psu blows it's a coin flip what can happen. it can start a fire and burn your house down. or it can kill everything (and I mean everything) in your computer, or it can take a part or two with it... or it can do nothing other then die.

Its basically roullet. You never know what will happen, what other parts may be destroyed or what ancillary damage a blown psu will cause. You basically have to replace the psu and pray that nothing else was blown.

This is why buying a GOOD psu is so critical. It's literally the only part in your system that will kill other parts AND one of two parts that can start a fire when it fails. The better PSUs tend to have redundancies built into them to limit the chances of critical system damage when/if the unit dies (no psu will last forever), cheap ones rarely do. So when you ask how likely it is, i'd say it's inversely proportional to the original quality of the psu.

find yourself a new psui off this list, from tier I or tier II. anything lower then that ranges from unreliable to dangerous. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html#xtor=EPR-8886

 

[InvalidError]

How likely is it to damage the mother board

It depends on what failed first.

On spectacular failures, it is usually something on the primary side and is often harmless. For progressive failures though, the output voltage can go wildly out of spec and fry everything before the PSU quits permanently.

 

[starphilosophy]

im mainly worried about the graphics card thanks for your help guys