[Urgent help NEEDED] My PSU was releasing smoke...

[callmadz]

this is what happened

- I was playing counter strike, using MIS AB the temperature of CPU was around 38 degrees Celsius and the GPU was around 50 (ish), the last time I checked while playing

- there was a smell of something burning in my bedroom for 20 minutes. I had my window open and I thought it was form outside.

- Suddenly all of my PC turned off

- I opened the PC and doubted the power supply, I then smelled the fans and it was the same burning smell

- I removed the PSU and bought a good PSU this time, I bought corsair 750W modular

- then I fitted it back into the case and the PC starts up fine, i see the splash screen...but none of the fans turn on

- I have corsair h80 and 7950 and three 120 mm fans, but none of them turn on (except for the PSU fan)

what can I do none of my fans work...I think it was a short circuit in my PSU or something


At the time of this happened I had this setup
FX8350 @ stock settings
Asus m5a78l-m/usb3
7950 @ stock
kingston 64gb ssd
1tb HDD toshiba
H80 water cooler
corsair vengeance 16gb @ 1600 mhz

most importantly this stupid power supply- http://www.amazon.co.uk/HEC-Compucase-G7-Modular-Extreme/dp/B008N9FEFQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423243765&sr=8-1&keywords=g7+modular

Is there any thing I can do to get my fans running again? please help I have a lot of course work on it

thank you

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Probably damaged the board also.

 

[SkyBill40]

What Bird said. If your PSU was on the way out, there's a chance it may have taken some things with it.

 

[callmadz]

What Bird said. If your PSU was on the way out, there's a chance it may have taken some things with it.

ok my cpu and motherboard is gone...

what about my ram and graphic card? are they still alive?

 

[callmadz]

Probably damaged the board also.

is my gpu and ram gone too??? 🙁

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Could be all , may be just a couple of components , damage varies on this type of thing.

Won't know till they can be tested.

 

[callmadz]

Could be all , may be just a couple of components , damage varies on this type of thing.

Won't know till they can be tested.

one last question

I heard that...

if there is a short circuit everything in my pc is mostly gone or is fine.

"My friend told me that lets say my graphic card has short circuited and then I insert the graphic card to a new pc , then that pc will also short circuit. this is same for every component"

is that true?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

MOST of the time the CPU is unaffected.

Boards and cards are usually the ones taken out.

 

[callmadz]

MOST of the time the CPU is unaffected.

Boards and cards are usually the ones taken out.

ok this is the last one!

shall I try my ssd/hdd on another computer? I have my data on there that I need crucially to pass my exam.

will it do any damage to that computer too? I'll use a new sata cable to connect it

 

[SkyBill40]

It's likely your HDD is fine. Same for your SSD. Your old cables are likely fine, too. If anything is toasted, it's probably the board and that's where the damage stops. Sometimes not seeing that every situation is different, but you're probably fine to just get a new mobo. Well, at least start there and then piece it back together and see how it works out.

Good luck.

 

[sora]

OP, I think the motherboard was probably damaged and maybe the GPU.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Boards and cards are usually the ones taken out.