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psu blew up

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druvenile

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i turned on my comp and the psu sparked and smoke came out , why would it just short out? it worked before...i am pretty sure it fried the cpu...any clues?
 
probably just a bad capacitor, i've seen many of them just pop like that before. there's a chance your cpu is okay
 
I suppose there could be many reasons.

Power supplies are probably the most common cause of system problems and component failures.

I hope your parts aren't toast... good luck!

-Skystalker
 
what power supply was it?
also there is a similar post like this over at anands...are you from anands? :p
 
i put a new one in, 350 antec, boots up fine, starts beeping like an alarm after it says veryfying dmi pools..the beep goes high/low repeating. it reads FF and does not do anything after this point...oh yea it reads 67c idle in bios, isnt that hella hot?
 
druvenile, welcome to the [H].

Please try to keep a single topic in one thread. I've merged your two threads on the same subject. ;)
 
Originally posted by druvenile
i put a new one in, 350 antec, boots up fine, starts beeping like an alarm after it says veryfying dmi pools..the beep goes high/low repeating. it reads FF and does not do anything after this point...oh yea it reads 67c idle in bios, isnt that hella hot?
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yea, thats very hot. Isn't the threshhold for a P4 like 70 or 72 or something?
 
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