PSU meltdown, need help recovering! - Page 3

**gvblake22** · June 19th, 2007

What you think may be a melted processor is likely just the thermal interface material. Try twisting the processor off the base of the heatsink and carefully cleaning it up with some 99% isopropyl alcohol and Q-Tips, but bet your processor is fine.

Panda Man · June 19th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by snickers12

But just had a thought - reckon it might have affected my GPU??? that would be awful if i have blown my graphics too.... i'm gonna check with someone elses motherboard but cant til later in the week...

Its possible, but I doubt it. Try it another PC if you can.

EDIT - And what blake said :P What thermal compound did you use? The stock pad? If so, that's supposed to melt, and probably just did its job too well

snickers12 · June 19th, 2007

what about the GPU... reckon that could be affected?

**gvblake22** · June 19th, 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by snickers12

what about the GPU... reckon that could be affected?

As Panda Man mentioned, it is possible but not likely. If something was fried by your malfunctioned PSU, it is most likely just your motherboard, but you can never know for sure until you test the parts. All the more reason to make sure you buy a quality, reliable power supply.

snickers12 · June 19th, 2007

but my power supply has been working for the last 3 years!!!

RangerXLT8 · June 19th, 2007

to test the PSU, yank it form the PC. Then take a fan, optical drive ect and plug them into the PSU. Take the 20-pin connector, run a wire between the pins of the green wire and any of the black wires. Make sure the power switch is in the on position on the back of the PSU. Shorting the wires should turn the fans and spin-up the optical drive if the unit is good.

Elysium · June 19th, 2007

I'm thinkin' that you blew your mobo.

**stinger608** · June 19th, 2007

I don't know if anyone mentioned this or not, so if one of the other guys did, I am sorry for repeating it.

Have you tried reseting the CMOS to set your BIOS to factory default????

I had a customers system fry the psu, and thought that the mobo was shot as well, but all I did is reset the factory default in the bios and it booted up no probs.

Maybe install the cpu and heatsink, one stick of ram, and the video card, jump the mobos bios to default and give it a shot

June 19th, 2007	#21
gvblake22 Modder-ator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe Desert Posts: 6,480 Blog Entries: 1	Re: PSU meltdown, need help recovering! What you think may be a melted processor is likely just the thermal interface material. Try twisting the processor off the base of the heatsink and carefully cleaning it up with some 99% isopropyl alcohol and Q-Tips, but bet your processor is fine.

June 19th, 2007	#23
snickers12 Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 10	Re: PSU meltdown, need help recovering! what about the GPU... reckon that could be affected? Pentium 4 3.0 GHz socket 478 CPU 80 GB hard drive 1 GB SD DDR RAM Nvidia 7600GT AGP x8 Graphics SIS648FX MAX DDR ATX MB

June 19th, 2007	#25
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June 19th, 2007	#28
stinger608 Silence..Or I kill you! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the Zone! Posts: 2,834 Blog Entries: 1	Re: PSU meltdown, need help recovering! I don't know if anyone mentioned this or not, so if one of the other guys did, I am sorry for repeating it. Have you tried reseting the CMOS to set your BIOS to factory default???? I had a customers system fry the psu, and thought that the mobo was shot as well, but all I did is reset the factory default in the bios and it booted up no probs. Maybe install the cpu and heatsink, one stick of ram, and the video card, jump the mobos bios to default and give it a shot

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