Fried PSU = Fried Mobo? - NEED Help / Advice!

[storge]

Hi All,

I am a newbie in the area of building PC's from scratch but never the less I gave it a go.

I am confident the motherboard, cpu and components were all installed correctly however im not so sure that while I was sleeving my PSU that i didnt get any wires mixed up (although I did of course great take care).

Anyway, I put everything together in the case and checked and rechecked everything, when I turned on the PSU it went *BANG* and sparked, which left it with only SOME of the power cords working. At the time it was plugged into the Motherboard, HDD, CD and DVD Roms.

I had NOT pressed the main power button on the PC case yet (just plugged the PSU in which was switched on)

So my question is, how can I ascertain that my motherboard, CPU and components are still working okay? I do not have access to another PSU to test it (plus I am afraid of further damage).

Is it at all possible that the PSU was just faulty and my motherboard survived? was it just a fuse that went in the PSU and no voltage went any further?

Has anyone experienced anything similiar???

ANY help / advice is appreciated, Thanks in advance, FYI the components are:-

*Abit AN8 Mobo
*AMD 3500+ 64bit CPU
*500 Watt Top Power PSU
*1Gb Kingmax Ram
+ all the usual bits.

 

[Hairy_Lee]

my guess would be that either the psu was faulty or that you had the voltage selector set to the wrong setting (thats if you are running on a 230 volt supply). judging by the nature of the failure you might want try and test your parts on another power supply if thats possible

 

[gamerman4]

I did fry a PSU when I didn,t plug the molex firmly into my HDD. I turned the power on and POP went the molex connector. I was like....f**k!! I thought I fried the HDD but the only thing hurt was the PSU even though the spark shot right next to my HDD.

The only way you would be able to test if the other components are alright is to plug in a new PSU and hope that the other one was just faulty and fried itself.