My computer went boom!
The Computer made this loud noise (Boom). Moments later I began smelling fried circuits, I was strangely calm when dealing with this. Turned off the surge protector, unplugged all the cables from the back of the computer and set the computer aside for observation and cool down.
I had feared that the Motherboard, GPU, CPU or HDDs had been lost as well. I replaced the (3 year old) PSU and held my breath as I hit the power button... light indicators & fans turned on, video output came up and the system went through a Power On Self Test. Windows booted up relatively fine and my data was accessible.
I'm not sure what exactly caused the PSU to go out like that, perhaps age (no overclocking on any of the parts) or a large dust bunny got into the PSU somehow. Computer was located on the floor, which I may have to rethink this now. I survived, "suffering" only a few hours of downtime this past Friday
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I had feared that the Motherboard, GPU, CPU or HDDs had been lost as well. I replaced the (3 year old) PSU and held my breath as I hit the power button... light indicators & fans turned on, video output came up and the system went through a Power On Self Test. Windows booted up relatively fine and my data was accessible.
I'm not sure what exactly caused the PSU to go out like that, perhaps age (no overclocking on any of the parts) or a large dust bunny got into the PSU somehow. Computer was located on the floor, which I may have to rethink this now. I survived, "suffering" only a few hours of downtime this past Friday
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