Should I be worried?

[renji5471]

Hello everyone, I have tried searching around for someone who has had the same experience as me, but I've had no luck. Recently (last night to be exact) I was playing a game with friends when suddenly my computer decided to turn itself off. It then started to try to turn back on (the fans and LED's in my computer turned back on, and I was able to see stuff on the screen), but I noticed there were a few sparks coming from the inside of the middle of my computer case. I turned it off and unplugged the power cord from the PSU and opened the side of the case to investigate, and I found nothing weird, so I blew out dust and moved the cables out of the way and tried it again and it seemed to be working fine. Should the sparking I saw worry me, or could it have just been some of the wires coming into contact with each other? I was thinking that it may have been my PSU starting to die on me, but the sparks I saw didn't occur near the PSU, and it was more like around my GPU/ harddrive. Also a few days ago my computer screens (I have a double monitor setup) went blank and after waiting for a couple minutes they didn't come back on, but after a quick computer restart they have been fine since (Unsure if its related to the sparking or not.)


My Build is:

ASRock Z87 Extreme 4
Intel I5-4670K CPU
Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
8 GB Memory (2x4GB)
Corsair CX 600M PSU

 

[20salmon]

I would be worried, you have a potential fire hazard here. Unplug the computer and do a thorough dust cleaning so nothing can catch on fire if more sparks were to come in the future. This is either caused by the motherboard or the PSU. I would contact costumer service for both products and see if they can shed some light on the issue.