I bought a PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad about a year ago. Just this past thursday, it went *poof* while I was out. I came home to a very quiet living room, my computer had shut down while I was gone. I tried turning it back on and while it did power up, the motherboard was giving me a POST error code about the P/S. Fine, I thought, these things happen, so I swapped in my old 535W Enermax and tried to boot, but I got a POST code about the CPU voltage. The Silencer doesn't pass muster on a power supply tester and it's making a static-y clicking sound when powered up. I think either the P/S shorted out and fried my motherboard or the motherboard shorted and fried the P/S. Unfortunately, it also seems to have taken one of my 7800 GTX cards with it
Have any of you ever experienced damage/failure to other hardware as a result of a power supply failure? What is my RMA course here, will the mobo/gfx card manufacturer replace stuff that fries while under warranty if it isn't that device's "fault" ? I called PC Power & Cooling and they told me about their RMA process, but they didn't know whether or not I'd have any recourse if their PS fried my other hardware. Any thoughts/ideas/insights?
Have any of you ever experienced damage/failure to other hardware as a result of a power supply failure? What is my RMA course here, will the mobo/gfx card manufacturer replace stuff that fries while under warranty if it isn't that device's "fault" ? I called PC Power & Cooling and they told me about their RMA process, but they didn't know whether or not I'd have any recourse if their PS fried my other hardware. Any thoughts/ideas/insights?