Problems with the power suply.

[ethanwestick]

Hello community of "Tom's Hardware".

I have a relative old computer (from 2008). One day, when I press the "on" button it "exploded" with a very loud noise and then it smells like smoke. I have detected the problem: the power supply. When I plug in the mother board's light's on and the power supply make a lot of smoke.

Then I search for a new one, but I'm not entirely sure that just this will resolve the problem. If you know the answer please tell me. Thank you very much for your time.

 

[aeko97]

Hello community of "Tom's Hardware".

I have a relative old computer (from 2008). One day, when I press the "on" button it "exploded" with a very loud noise and then it smells like smoke. I have detected the problem: the power supply. When I plug in the mother board's light's on and the power supply make a lot of smoke.

Then I search for a new one, but I'm not entirely sure that just this will resolve the problem. If you know the answer please tell me. Thank you very much for your time.

What happened with you makes me sad because I don't know just how bad it was. If your PSU went RIP in pepperoni then it's most likely that some other parts of your computer went RIP as well. You'll have to check that. At that point, even if not many things are damaged, your computer is pretty old (mine is as well) and I'd invest on a budget PC with recent parts (2013-2015)! I said budget pc because I don't know how much you can afford alright? But if you have the money go for something better of course, if you need any help with it let me know!

 

[sizzling]

You need to tell us exactly what you have, the only thing to do is buy a new PSU but there is a good chance other components have been damaged too. If it's a 2008 PC you may be best to look at a new PC instead of putting money in such an old PC

 

[ethanwestick]

Thanks you all for your fast responses. I will buy a new one. I just want the files from that computer but meah. Nothing very important.
Again, thank you very much. Hope you to have a good day.

 

[sizzling]

For any HDD you can get caddies or cables so you can plug into USB sockets on another PC. That way you should be able to get your files off as long as the PSU didn't fry the drive