Something went pop

[Craig_Thomas_Scott]

i'm not entirely sure if anyone can help me, really what i need is to be told how to start the troubleshooting process.

 

Anyways i started off playing the Witcher 3 the gameplay was smooth no signs that my computer was struggling with anything and then pop, i tripped the power in the upper part of the house when i flicked the switch back up everything else was working yet my pc wouldnt boot no power seems to be going into my computer even the green light on my mother board isn't on, nothing smells like burning or anything and i checked the fuse in the psu lead.

 

I'm at a loss as to what i can do next any ideas?

 

 

any help much appreciated

[Jade]

Stuff isn't supposed to 'pop' in a computer. Only things that should be making noise are fans and hard drives (and the internal speaker if applicable.) Sounds like a capacitor in the PSU or motherboard died.

[Craig_Thomas_Scott]

yeah, thats why i'm confused it doesnt look like anything on the motherboard imediatly though, i'll have another check, no idea how to check the electronics in the psu although everything is only a few months old my psu is a Corsair RM 850 if that helps?

[ChaseB]

So if it actually broke, than do these things.

Swap Power supplies (need to do this)

Remove all peripherals and GPUS

And Pray.

[iamdarkyoshi]

Send it back. First, just unplug everytning from the power supply, then jump the green wire to any black wire with a paperclip and if the fan runs in the power supply, then something else is wrong.

[Lord_Karango17]

yeah, thats why i'm confused it doesnt look like anything on the motherboard imediatly though, i'll have another check, no idea how to check the electronics in the psu although everything is only a few months old my psu is a Corsair RM 850 if that helps?

Had this happen to a buddy (it did not go pop for him), but we could not do much more than narrowing it down to the PSU...

 

Follow what others have said to narrow the list of things that could have gone bad (swap out the PSU/ check if the cpu/ gpu is good by putting it another pc/ etc...)

[Craig_Thomas_Scott]

the only problem i have is spare parts this is my first and only machine i have another 15 year old desktop but no idea whats inside i'll try swapping the psu's and see what happens

[blindpulu]

15 years old... dont try there is protection in psu for over voltage what will "burn" and make smoke and smell bad... if you take the psu out and smell it and it stinks like hell you know the problem, but why did it broke that is bad to say

[Craig_Thomas_Scott]

doesn't smell like there is anything horridly wrong with the psu although it has been some time since it happened