computer destroyed??? :(

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dangas1

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Hello, it all started 2 days ago as i was playing skyrim. bam! computer shutdown, i could start it but i couldnt play any games or be on the computer for long. then it started to crash more and more and get bsods and black, blank screens. had loads of crashes more frequently. I was freaked out. I ran memtest and had hundreds of problems. took out network cable, had no memtest errors. (I think the memtest zero errors was wrong.) I styed up late on night trying to run antivirus. I got all my important files on my 1tb hard drive USB thingy. (luckily just in time.) I went to sleep as i used clamwin to check my computer because of the memtst thing. and trojan when running spybot search and destroy before having BSOD right after pressing ok. zero trojans after cable unplugged :/
Then this morning. I thought my computer had fallen asleep automatically. but when i tried to turn it on, it didnt react at all, MOBO had lights but I couldnt turn it on at all. no fans or anything. I took cable out and in and turned my switch on and off. then tried to turn computer on. turned on for 1 second. Fssssssssssssss. turns off and i see smoke and a burnt smell. It came from where my hard drive and dvd and power button would be, but it could have come from anywhere else. I quickly took out power cable just in case. Now im here writing and completely fraked out. The stench still lingering in my room. I need to know how much of my computer may be fried. And any other help possible. Light still shows on motherboard if i plug the power cable in. but i wont be doing much more before I have any professional help from here. :(
 
OK so it sounds to me like your PSU exploded... what brand/wattage PSU were you using and what spec is this machine? Your motherboard is likely going to be toast even though it is still getting some sort of power, and the chances are your graphics card(s) if you had one is also going to be fried. Your hard drives may also be dead, but it's likely going to be your graphics card and motherboard that suffered the most. The CPU should be OK though. Got another PSU you can test with this system just to make it's working OK?
 
I have the same computer as my friend: http://www.computerforum.com/192483-my-computer.html#post1606441 except that i have coolermaster HAF 912. Using his PSU would be no problem at all, would it be completely safe for the PSU? MOBO is ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 my power supply is corsair TX 650W power supply, my gfx card was unlocked until i started having heating issues. i locked it and it ran fine ever since. my cpu was overclocked to 3.6 mhz. I had no problems with it ever. but still downclocked it back to 3.2 ghz as i was quite skeptical to overclocking. this was half a year ago though. and my computer ran smoothly until now. My hard drive is a 1 TB cheap hard drive that has had no problems at all.
 
Hmmm OK so it seems like your TX650 died on you. You mentioned your graphics card was overheating? Did you ever clean it out for dust, or clean the case fans out? You have a 6950 right?

If you use your mate's PSU on your system it shouldn't damage his PSU, but if your board is dead then the system probably won't power on. I'm going to probably say that your PSU died and then took everything else out with it. It shouldn't have happened, but it just has. Can you get a replacement from Corsair? Is the part still under warranty?
 
It was suffering from overheating while it was overclocked. I clocked it to normal speeds and all issues disappeared, that was around 4 months ago. I have had no issues with it ever since. Im pretty sure i can get a replacement
I havent cleaned my computer with a high pressure airpump, but have blown through it with a football pump. xD
I did chech the temperature from CCC and it was on 40-50 celsius. Max temperature is 90 Celsius. This was a few days ago, i frequently check temp after i had the overheating 4 months ago
 
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I think the overclock may have had something to do with it. What voltages were you using for the CPU and what thermal paste? If you can, get a replacement PSU from Corsair and this time don't overclock.
 
I dont remember the paste name. But the brand was high quality and it had excellent reviews. I have had my gpu and cpu at stock speed for almost half a year without any problems though. Then two days ago it just shut down while i was playing skyrim. All hell broke loose sknce then. I never changed voltage settings unless it happens automatically when overclocking.
 
dangas1 said:
Then two days ago it just shut down while i was playing skyrim. All hell broke loose sknce then.
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Yeah definitely sounds like you have some overheating problems either with your CPU, graphics card or PSU or all three.

OK I'd advise you take out your 6950, spray compressed air into it to get all the dust out, and then do the same with your CPU cooler. Reapply some thermal paste and then put both the CPU and GPU back to clock speeds and load optimized defaults in the BIOS once you have got your new power supply, and then just see what happens.
 
It shut down whilst running at clock speeds. It has been running at clock speeds for almost half a year. I have not had any heat problems in half a year. Im still going to shoot compressed air though. Im writing on my ipod. So the text is really messy, sorry
 
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It shut down whilst running at clock speeds. It has been running at clock speeds for almost half a year. I have not had any heat problems in half a year.
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OK in that case then the PSU is likely to fault as I've already said. I'm just gonna leave it at that.

Yes, do still use the canned air to spray out your machine.
 
What other parts can theoretically have been destroyed? ram, cpu etc. My gpu smells like toast. Can dust be a reason? Altough i had an old comp that had way more dust compared to its size. If i try to troubleshoot other components on my friends computer could his parts get fried?
 
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What other parts can theoretically have been destroyed? ram, cpu etc.
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OK so the GPU is probably dead if the PSU exploded. The RAM should be OK and the CPU should be OK too. The motherboard is also likely to be dead and possibly the hard drives too, as well as possibly the optical drives. Anything that plugs directly into the power supply is likely to have died.

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My gpu smells like toast. Can dust be a reason?
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Possibly. Host dust smells absolutely terrible, I know this from cleaning out customer's machines, but I imagine that the smell is probably due to an electrical fire/burn on the card itself going by your description. Hot dust doesn't really smell like toast if I'm honest. Electrical fires/burns do though.

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If i try to troubleshoot other components on my friends computer could his parts get fried?
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If you try your dead PSU on his machine then yes there are probably going to be problems with his machine too, but trying out components such as the hard drive and RAM etc on another computer with a working PSU is probably going to be the only way to see if they are really dead. You could try it, you're not likely to fry his system. Sticking a dead RAM stick into a motherboard won't ruin the motherboard and sticking a dead hard disk into a PC won't ruin the PC either, so you'll probably be OK to try out your parts on another PC.
 
I took out only gpu and hard drive and dvd using the psu which i checked if was ok. It was ok and I used the old psu. I had power to Fans, cpu, ram. Those seem to be fine. I am going to check the rest. Ok, all parts seem to be fine, including my psu. The gpu is definately at fault. May any of the gpu related psu or Mobo parts be destroyed because of the gpu explosion?
 
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dangas1 said:
May any of the gpu related psu or Mobo parts be destroyed because of the gpu explosion?
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So now you think your graphics card has died? If so, then your mobo and PSU will be fine most likely.
 
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I checked and my PSU was fine. All parts were running with my psu when i unplugged the gpu
 
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Right ok so you need a new graphics card then?? Everything else should be working fine too if the PSU is actually OK.

I thought it was odd a Corsair PSU should die, especially something like a TX650.
 
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