Loud sound, an dead comp

Grotzyy

Grotzyy

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So an hour ago I read about a cool thing to do on WoW, where you put in a code like /code blahblah 180 to make your flying mount able to fly upside down instead of stoping at a certain axis.

Well, I did it, an after I hit that axis, my computer made a loud POP sound, and died. The thing is, my computer is plugged into a surge protecter, and everything on the surge protecter died. An nothing is working on it anymore, my alarm clock, my cell phone charger, nor my comp. But if I plug my clock or phone charger directly into the wallsocket, they work, but my computers PSU cable does not.

So i am guessing my PSU died? From just using a coding in WoW? An it killed my surge protecter also? Im really confused.. my comp doesnt power up, i can try to use another PSU, but currently dont have one near me.
 
If it had a burning smell, yeah your PSU went. That's quite odd that it killed your surge protection board.. What board was it? Some of those boards that claim to have surge protection is like a lie, because they can only take a very small short or surge. The first thing you want to do is get another PSU to make sure that it didn't take other parts with it when it died. When PSU's die, they can short out other components like RAM and CPU's. If it was only your PSU consider yourself lucky because everytime one of my PSU's has died I've lost a component like a CPU or graphics card.
 
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Must have been one helluva surge to protect everything plugged into it, AND fry your PSU! The only other thing I can think of is that perhaps your surge strip was old... one that's more than a year or two old is starting to get useless, because the components inside that absorb the surges (called "varistors") slowly die as they accumulate lots of small surges over time. An old(er) surge strip would then protect small items like chargers, clock radios, etc, but be useless for protecting a large item like a PSU.
Tom
 
Well i built my comp around last august, so the protector is less then a year old when i bought it.

But if the pulse came from my PSU, how could it kill the surge protector? I know the surge didnt come from my wall socket, because my monitor is plugged into the bottom outlet and its fine. Did it have anything to do with WoW? I find it kinda weird it decided to burn out right as i hit that point i wasnt suppose to in WoW, like that small exploit against the WoW code was enough to kill my PSU and the protector it was hooked into?

I didnt smell anything though.
 
It wasnt WoW, unless right then a little more power was needed from your CPU and that amount was enough to kill the PSU.
 
But does power even go that way? From the PSU to the surge protector? If there was a surge it should go from the wall socket, to the surge protector, up to my computer, not the other way around.

But i cracked open the PSU and the fuse was blown. It was a 600w psu Rosewill but they dont have any more 600w on newegg, ill have to get a 550w.
 
No. The only place a surge comes from is from the power lines, not your PSU.
Your fuse blew? Why not replace it? If the fuse keeps blowing, THEN replace your PSU. Fuses can be pretty fragile and can blow quite easily.
Tom
 
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