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So I was just on my desktop playing some games and then there was a storm and a temporary power outage in my house, when the power came back my tower would not boot. I don't know if something is wrong with power supply or motherboard. Can anybody help me?

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Please tell me that you had a surge protector. Otherwise you might have fried your computer and it's dead.

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Every important or gaming computer should have an appropriately rated UPS preferably with AVR, sudden voltage drops or shutdowns can be just as harmful as surges.

 

Take it to a professional for a diagnosis if you can.  

 

Some things you can do yourself is disconnect the power cord, and hold the power button for 5-10 seconds and retry.  If you can borrow a psu you can try ruling that out and those are relatively cheap regardless.  

 

If it is powering on but not posting try resetting the bios manually and try powering on with no hdds connected 

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How could I fix a fried computer? Do I have to replace the whole pc or just certain parts? (I was not using a surge protector)

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Did u smell any burning?  A surge will usually cause that.  Well a huge one anyways.

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No, no smell and I took of the back and front panel and no physical damage seems to be there.

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5 minutes ago, Asyc said:

No, no smell and I took of the back and front panel and no physical damage seems to be there.

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6 minutes ago, Asyc said:

How could I fix a fried computer? Do I have to replace the whole pc or just certain parts? (I was not using a surge protector)

If the computer is fried, you'd need to replace whatever parts were fried. Which in most cases would be all of them.

But as John said 

7 minutes ago, John Ellmaker said:

Every important or gaming computer should have an appropriately rated UPS preferably with AVR, sudden voltage drops or shutdowns can be just as harmful as surges.

 

Take it to a professional for a diagnosis if you can.  

 

Some things you can do yourself is disconnect the power cord, and hold the power button for 5-10 seconds and retry.  If you can borrow a psu you can try ruling that out and those are relatively cheap regardless.  

 

If it is powering on but not posting try resetting the bios manually and try powering on with no hdds connected 

 

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PSU: HPL-800BR-F14S(800W)

CPU: Intel i7 

Motherboard : MSI (Don't remember exact model)

GPU: Gtx 970

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Asyc said:

PSU: HPL-800BR-F14S(800W)

CPU: Intel i7 

Motherboard : MSI (Don't remember exact model)

GPU: Gtx 970

Surge protector isnt a must-have since high quality PSUs are meant to combat power surges as well. Sadly, this PSU is far from one of those.

 

Power surge has different chances of frying different components. Usually the motherboard and power supply will die, sometimes the CPU, graphics card and storage drives die. The fans are the least likely to break. Replace the power supply first, then test the rest of the parts.

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25 minutes ago, Asyc said:

How could I fix a fried computer? Do I have to replace the whole pc or just certain parts? (I was not using a surge protector)

Depends. Your PSU is mostly likely fried, and they are known to take other components with them when they go.

 

As @Jurrunio said, different components have different likelihoods of dying due to power surge.

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Depends. Your PSU is mostly likely fried, and they are known to take other components with them when they go.

 

As @Jurrunio said, different components have different likelihoods of dying due to power surge.

Try getting a new PSU and plugging it into the components. Test what components are still working. If you fried everything then you already have a new PSU so.....

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17 hours ago, Asyc said:

PSU: HPL-800BR-F14S(800W)

CPU: Intel i7 

Motherboard : MSI (Don't remember exact model)

GPU: Gtx 970

 

 

The fuck PSU is that lmao

 

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It is an 80+ certified psu ;-; but now when the power cable is connected and I hold down the power button a light near the CMOS battery that is labeled JBat 1 starts flashing?

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