Computer powered off. Not powering back on.

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thebliX

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Ok so earlier today there was a thunderstorm here and the powerwent off 2-3 times. My friend was also effected by this. Later on tonight he was playing WoW and his computer started to smell like it was "burning[his words]" and then it make the power down noise. Now he cannot turn it on.

I went over there and had him try to turn the computer on for me, listening for any fan noise and or hardrive starting up. I heard nothing. So i had him open the case and push the power button. There was about half a turn on the CPU Fan and nothing else. Now my guess is the PSU.

I am going over there tomorow with my backup PSU to test this theorty out. If anyone else has any ideas on why this could be happening i would really appreciate a reply.
 
Definitely the PSU. Swap it out for a known working one just to be sure.
 
Do what you said, go over there and test your backup psu on his rig, hopefully lighting didnt take his rig with it :( but let us know if that works!

soulsaver_8229
 
Ok thanks for the replys. I'll be going over tyhere in a bit. Hopefully it is just the PSU and nothing else.
 
Ok so I tried the PSU and it did not work. I am out of ideas. Any one else have any insight on this matter please reply.

Thanks.
 
thebliX said:
Ok so I tried the PSU and it did not work. I am out of ideas. Any one else have any insight on this matter please reply.

Thanks.
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Well, he said it smelled like it was burning. You should figure out where that smell came from (using your nose) and you will probably find the source of your problems.

-Skystalker
 
If you have not done so, I would clear CMOS and try. It's scary how often that can fix things. And that's with the good PSU hooked up.

 
What's the brand of this PSU which presumably died?
 
The PSU was by either Max Power or Power Max. I ended up putting my backup cpu/mb in his rig to see if it could have been his mb, and it worked just fine with my mb/cpu and his ram/hd so im guessing it was either the Motherboard or the CPU. Oh well. It was a pos p4 1.7 on a ecs mobo, needed to go.
 
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