psu fried ?

[tautvydas]

tl;dr : psu spits sparks , its done for,  what the likelihood  of other parts working if i get new psu ?

okay so my old pc (probably 7+ years old) just went down in sparks, literally psu shot out some sparks and pc shut down. it had a nasty smell so i'm guessing psu is done for, but will other components will be working ?
the psu fan has stopped working around 3 years ago but since it worked fairly quiet and cool i kept it
i mainly care about HDD  and other stuff would be nice but mainly HDD

it was an 500GB HDD
Penium dual core
GT9500 512mb
and cd-drive not working



 

[Guest]

Only way to check is to test with a power supply you know is working, sadly. There's a chance that some components would've fried with it, but I doubt everything is dead.

[Shreyas1]

There's always a chance. Try checking with a different psu? This is also why u backup drives and keep tabs on psu, especially if it's a low quality one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tautvydas]

1 minute ago, Shreyas1 said:

There's always a chance. Try checking with a different psu? This is also why u backup drives and keep tabs on psu, especially if it's a low quality one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i'm just gonna take it to a shop and see what they will tell.

also its kinda hard to backup stuff from pc that cant read flash usb drives. some data is in cloud but free options are very limited.

but to be fair that psu held it stuff considering it was my first pc (prebult shitty and overpriced as i learned latrer) and survived longer than my new one without any problems

[EnergyEclipse]

 

24 minutes ago, LeinadTM said:

Only way to check is to test with a power supply you know is working, sadly. There's a chance that some components would've fried with it, but I doubt everything is dead.

My only issue with believing other components are not fried would be the system's age, it may not have technology to combat a sudden power surge or alike, as the specific motherboard doesn't advertise any think like such.

 

It does sadly not surprise me to find the PSU fan failed concerning the dust build up around the drives and the case's floor.

 

Spoiler

I'd have curiosity to know whether possibly the dust became 'magnetised' although incredibly unlikely? https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/265332/can-non-magnetic-dust-particles-become-magnetic-if-their-particle-size-is-decree

 

[mariushm]

Computer is probably fine.

 

Most likely a capacitor or a mosfet  or a diode blew up in the power supply which caused a short circuit which blew up the power supply's fuse and that killed the power supply but prevented any components from being damaged..

 

If you're lucky the power supply could be fixable quite easily if you're handy with a soldering iron.

 

If you're willing to go this route, take out the power supply and open it up, blow the dust out of it and take some clear pictures of the insides and maybe I can pinpoint what failed and tell you what to buy to fix it

 

[tautvydas]

1 hour ago, EnergyEclipse said:

 

My only issue with believing other components are not fried would be the system's age, it may not have technology to combat a sudden power surge or alike, as the specific motherboard doesn't advertise any think like such.

 

It does sadly not surprise me to find the PSU fan failed concerning the dust build up around the drives and the case's floor.

 

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I'd have curiosity to know whether possibly the dust became 'magnetised' although incredibly unlikely? https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/265332/can-non-magnetic-dust-particles-become-magnetic-if-their-particle-size-is-decree

 

i guess that's lazy on my part, i actually used to clean both pc at the same time but i thought what the hell it survives 100% loads without overheating i wont bother this time maybe another time , well i guess that cost me

[tautvydas]

1 hour ago, mariushm said:

Computer is probably fine.

 

Most likely a capacitor or a mosfet  or a diode blew up in the power supply which caused a short circuit which blew up the power supply's fuse and that killed the power supply but prevented any components from being damaged..

 

If you're lucky the power supply could be fixable quite easily if you're handy with a soldering iron.

 

If you're willing to go this route, take out the power supply and open it up, blow the dust out of it and take some clear pictures of the insides and maybe I can pinpoint what failed and tell you what to buy to fix it

 

appreciated but i wont do that, considering i barely passed my electronics course this semester and i have never held soldering iron in my hands but if youre right new power supply should do the trick and my college stuff is saved