Lame...

[maynard]

so I'm sitting there on my PC, enjoying my last night off work, playing some skyrim when a half a foot wide electrical flash shoots out the back of my PC followed by a "POP" noise that scares the piss out of me and fries the entire fucking thing.....

I be a sad panda...

[StarsMine]

And this is why you never skimp on a PSU, ever.

at least I assume your PSU is what did this.

[maynard]

And this is why you never skimp on a PSU, ever.

at least I assume your PSU is what did this.

I'm not sure... but the thing has been running for like 5 years now lol... and gamed on quite heavily... it's paid it's dues.... it's just a few days after xmas is a really lame ass time for this 2 happen.

I'm quite sure that most if not all of the PC is totaled... the amount of current that shot out of the PC, and through it was crazy, ive never seen anything like it... it was like this.

[Spasm]

I'd change the PSU anyways if your lucky thats all that got damaged, if not so lucky prolly guna need anew comp.

[StarsMine]

yea a good psu should have the safty features that would make it so it only blew that out. hopefuly the rest is fine, might have blown the mobo, depends on what rail blew.

[maynard]

yeah.. replaced power supply... still wont fire up.

guess ill just start shopping for PC parts.

[XX0wnsXY]

hopefully you can get back and running soon!

[ZERO]

was about to say I had this occur from a very old psu that got too much dust and started a fire but luckily it was a good psu and did not allow the damage to spread to the computer. The real reason for a good psu is that when it does fail b/c they all will at some point it will not take your computer with it.

Hopefully some stuff will still work, maybe it just blew the motherboard out.

[StarsMine]

well if its 5 years old, the CPU isnt worth saving for personal use, same if the ram is ddr2, hopefully you can save the GPU, Disk drive and HDD. Case I assume is unless your looking to get a new one.

[Assassin]

Yeah hopefully it didn't fly through your mobo and fry the rest of it too. Gl bro.