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I fried something... Help!

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Jakerz

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Ok I feel like a complete fucking idiot but anyway, I was trying to troubleshoot to see if my disk drive was bad, I had it out of the case and was going to hook it up to the psu with a spare cable, well the cable I grabbed wasn't what I thought it was and it shorted the psu out. Now the system won't come on, and only the blue LED is on on the mono, and the red E is glowing, nothing else...


Specs

Cooler master HAF 932
EVGA Classified Mobo
I7 920 @ stock
ATI 5870s x2
Corsair 750w psu
6gb of ram

So I'm wondering what all I fried now... I guess the way to tell is to put a new psu in and turn it on? Guess everything could be toast huh?

Thanks
Jake
 
You can see if it's the power supply if you unplug the PSU atx connector from the motherboard, short the Green wire and any black and see if the PSU fan starts up.

You could then use a voltmeter and check voltages on each line and evaluate the PSU.
 
Thanks, I tried that and the psu is gone as well as the freaking Mobo... It's got a little burnt spot on it at the bottom.

I guess there isn't a way to check the CPU? It's a socket 1366 so it's an older one, newegg doesn't even carry those Mobos anymore, I don't want to buy a new one and the find out my CPU is blown and be stuck with a useless board lol

Jake
 
The motherboard may have survived, the problem may be just at the point where the burn is.
If the tracks on the motherboard havent burnt away, it could be fine.

The only way to check the CPU is to try it.


I'm surprised the PSU died though, the protection should have shut it down prior to major damage unless it wasnt a complete short circuit.
Can you tell us exactly what you did?
 
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