need help

L4177312 · Post by **L4177312** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:44 am

i was moving one of my harddrives into another computer and one of the connectors from the powersupply somehow hit one of the pins on the motherboard. i saw a huge spark from the back of the psu and maybe a small one from where it hit the pin. when i tried turning it on nothing happened. im not really sure whats damaged or not but im letting the psu sit unplugged for awhile, if it doesnt come back does anyone know how i would fix it? or maybe the motherboard if its not the psu? guess that will teach me to unplug the power next time

thanks

Fallen_Knight · Post by **Fallen_Knight** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:38 pm

Hopefully you just blew a fuse in the PSU and nothing else.

if your up for it open the PSU and check to see if the fuse is blownm or just get a PSU from another mahcine and try that.

GamingGod · Post by **GamingGod** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:51 pm

if the power supply is blown then you might see scortch marks. If you do that is a bad sign

ez2remember · Post by **ez2remember** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 4:30 am

Leave it for a while switch off and unplugged. I short circuited my PSU once too hee hee.

But it never had the sparked you described it just cut off and would not turn back on. I left if for a while and grounded it too. Then swtiched it on and all was okay.

But your problem may be more serious..

L4177312 · Post by **L4177312** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:12 am

luckily it was just the psu that died. i had it unplugged for about a day and when i tried to turn it back on nothing happened. everything seems to be running fine with the backup psu. ill open it up this weekend to see what got fried. thanks for your input