Computer went boom!!!!

camel lips · 03-01-2008, 03:45 AM

I had a elderly lady bring me a computer today and said she was playing a card game on it and it let out a loud boom.

I havent tried to power it up,she said it would not power up.Its pretty clean on the inside.no big signs of dust in the proccessor or the MB.No black markings to suggest something blew up.

I pulled the HD and it seems to be working fine in a external drive.

Any suggestions where to start?Power supply?

INTELCRAZY · 03-01-2008, 03:48 AM

Power supplies pop pretty loud when a capacitor kicks the bucket...

camel lips · 03-01-2008, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by INTELCRAZY

Power supplies pop pretty loud when a capacitor kicks the bucket...

So its the power supply or a capacitor on the mother board???

Ive got a good power supply that came off another computer.Should I try it first?

ThatGuy16 · 03-01-2008, 03:58 AM

Look closely at the board, a blow capacitor is normally pretty obvious. If you don't see anything, my guess is that its the power supply.

INTELCRAZY · 03-01-2008, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by camel lips

So its the power supply or a capacitor on the mother board???

Ive got a good power supply that came off another computer.Should I try it first?

The power supply contains capacitors, too. Probably about 4x the size of any on the motherboard... I was speaking of the capacitors in the PSU.

StrangleHold · 03-01-2008, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by camel lips

So its the power supply or a capacitor on the mother board???

Ive got a good power supply that came off another computer.Should I try it first?

Look for a blown capacitor on the motherboard, if you dont see any try another power supply

03-01-2008, 03:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
camel lips Gold Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 278	Computer went boom!!!! I had a elderly lady bring me a computer today and said she was playing a card game on it and it let out a loud boom. I havent tried to power it up,she said it would not power up.Its pretty clean on the inside.no big signs of dust in the proccessor or the MB.No black markings to suggest something blew up. I pulled the HD and it seems to be working fine in a external drive. Any suggestions where to start?Power supply? __________________ Fixing laptops is my hobby. edwardamason@yahoo.com

03-01-2008, 03:58 AM	#4 (permalink)
ThatGuy16 Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA Posts: 5,047	Look closely at the board, a blow capacitor is normally pretty obvious. If you don't see anything, my guess is that its the power supply. __________________ CPU: C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz 1.23v HSF: Apogee GTX MB: Gigabyte X38-DS4 Ram: 2x2GB G. Skill DDR2-1068 HDD: 320GB Seagate PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700w OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit GFX: HD3870 @ 837/1152 LCD: LG 22" L226WTQ My Old 3DMark06: 20008 =(

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INTELCRAZY banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 6,060	Power supplies pop pretty loud when a capacitor kicks the bucket...