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IT WASNT THE PSU

 

IT WAS MY FUCKING 400$EVGA GTX 1070

 

FUCK!!!

Wow.  Well, there's a good chance you're in warranty at least.  If you didn't OC it.

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So I was using my PC and it crashed and I smelled smoke coming from it. my whole room smells like smoke, most of which from what I can tell came from my power supply.

 

 

What the fuck do I do; will it catch fire?

 

more importantly: is all of my data gone now?

 

MY FUCKING GTX 1070 CAUGHT FIRE AND ONE OF THE DIODES BURNED OUT. I AM REALLY FUCKING MAD. 

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Replace the PSU and hope that it didn't take out anything else in its self-made funeral pyre.  If you have a warranty I'd contact the manufacturer to see what you can get from them.

 

In the immediate future, disconnect the power from the PSU.

 

Likely one of the capacitors fried, most times good PSUs are designed to kill just themselves and not forward on the power surge.

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1 minute ago, PineyCreek said:

Replace the PSU and hope that it didn't take out anything else in its self-made funeral pyre.  If you have a warranty I'd contact the manufacturer to see what you can get from them.

IT WASNT THE PSU

 

IT WAS MY FUCKING 400$EVGA GTX 1070

 

FUCK!!!

OFF TOPIC: I suggest every poll from now on to have "**CK EA" option instead of "Other"

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Just now, babadoctor said:

IT WASNT THE PSU

 

IT WAS MY FUCKING 400$EVGA GTX 1070

 

FUCK!!!

Wow.  Well, there's a good chance you're in warranty at least.  If you didn't OC it.

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1 minute ago, babadoctor said:

IT WASNT THE PSU

 

IT WAS MY FUCKING 400$EVGA GTX 1070

 

FUCK!!!

so send it in it should have a warranty 

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Just now, Vernw3 said:

so send it in it should have a warranty 

i bought it 7 months ago

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Just now, babadoctor said:

i bought it 7 months ago

ok dont they have like 2 years

My Personal Computer

 

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz (OC 3.8) 6-Core Processor

Cpu cooler DEEPCOOL Gamer Storm CAPTAIN 240EX WHITE 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC ATX AM4 Motherboard 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz RAM 8x3

Storage: SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 256GB SATA III

Storage:SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 500GB SATA III
Video Card: RTX 2060
Case: NZXT - S340 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: EVGA 550 B3 550W

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Monitor: Acer XF240H 24" TN Free-Sync ,144 Hz 

Keyboard: Corsair k95 RGB platinum

Mouse: Razer basilisk

Headset: Hyperx cloud alpha pro

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2 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

Wow.  Well, there's a good chance you're in warranty at least.  If you didn't OC it.

i did not oc it

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Just now, Vernw3 said:

ok dont they have like 2 years

They'll probably want a receipt or invoice information, but evga's good with warranty repair/replacement...at least in my experience.

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Just now, VenomZ_ said:

rip, I had a similar situation where I almost fried my psu by putting the cpu cable in the mobo the wrong way 

how does that happen it blocks it from going in the wrong way 

My Personal Computer

 

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz (OC 3.8) 6-Core Processor

Cpu cooler DEEPCOOL Gamer Storm CAPTAIN 240EX WHITE 
Motherboard: MSI - B350 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC ATX AM4 Motherboard 
Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000MHz RAM 8x3

Storage: SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 256GB SATA III

Storage:SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 500GB SATA III
Video Card: RTX 2060
Case: NZXT - S340 Elite (White) ATX Mid Tower Case 
Power Supply: EVGA 550 B3 550W

Peripherals

Monitor: Acer XF240H 24" TN Free-Sync ,144 Hz 

Keyboard: Corsair k95 RGB platinum

Mouse: Razer basilisk

Headset: Hyperx cloud alpha pro

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6 minutes ago, PineyCreek said:

They'll probably want a receipt or invoice information, but evga's good with warranty repair/replacement...at least in my experience.

ok so I rma'd it online

 

i seem to have to ship it to them

ok

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Riperoni in monies. I nearly blew up a fan once and almost fried my CPU I put the cooler on wrong. Also is it bad if you run hardware on fluctualing rails? I rma'd a psu for that but idk if anything was hurt

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Bet you got one of the cards that was in the bad batch; except yours waited until now to go boom. Just open a ticket with EVGA, they'll work it out.

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I had a gtx 950 a while back which also caught fire, also an EVGA. I did get my money back, but it did take quite a while unfortunately.

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