Yesterday, I touched the case of my gaming rig and there was a small static shock, that caused my computer to shut down immediatly.
Now it doesn't boot, the best I can do now is unplug the power cord, wait 5 sec, plug it back and when I try to turn it on, the fans connected to the motherboard will spin for a very brief time and the decorative lights will go on for a sec. The the fans of the psu and those connected directly to it will stay on and the usb device seem to get some power. Everything will stay that way until I shut down the psu.
Now what in the hell happened? I checked everything that might cause a contact with the case but I found nothing. What should I do? I didn't have time to canibalize my other computer for parts to do some tests yet but I have no idea where to start. If it was the ram,video card or cpu the fans would at least stay on, right? Now I'm not sure what kind of damage static would cause to the motherboard and psu.
The case is a thermaltake soprano in brushed aluminium and steel, the psu is a enermax 550 watt I think and the motherboard is a gigabyte for an Amd cpu, sorry i dont have the exact model since I'm not at home.
Once i find the problem, should I dump the case so it dont destroy my system again, or maybe just try to ground it?
ps. sorry for eventual bad english
Now it doesn't boot, the best I can do now is unplug the power cord, wait 5 sec, plug it back and when I try to turn it on, the fans connected to the motherboard will spin for a very brief time and the decorative lights will go on for a sec. The the fans of the psu and those connected directly to it will stay on and the usb device seem to get some power. Everything will stay that way until I shut down the psu.
Now what in the hell happened? I checked everything that might cause a contact with the case but I found nothing. What should I do? I didn't have time to canibalize my other computer for parts to do some tests yet but I have no idea where to start. If it was the ram,video card or cpu the fans would at least stay on, right? Now I'm not sure what kind of damage static would cause to the motherboard and psu.
The case is a thermaltake soprano in brushed aluminium and steel, the psu is a enermax 550 watt I think and the motherboard is a gigabyte for an Amd cpu, sorry i dont have the exact model since I'm not at home.
Once i find the problem, should I dump the case so it dont destroy my system again, or maybe just try to ground it?
ps. sorry for eventual bad english