Power Surge fried my power supply

[Prancer]

When my house remodeling project was over, I brought my computer into the room and got it connected to the power cord, which in turn was connected to a 6 outlet power strip. The computer had no other peripherals plugged into it. The computer box sat in the room for about 45 minutes while I was making room for the monitor and cleaning up the room, when all of a sudden I heard the computer turn on all by itself. The fan on the power supply started humming. When I heard this, I unplugged the power cord and went about my business cleaning the room. A couple of days later, when I brought in the monitor, I hooked everything up but found that the computer won't turn on.

I have a 850Mhz Athlon on an ASUS mobo inside a FongKai case. Does anyone have any idea what happened to my computer? The only thing I could think of is that there was a big power surge and it somehow went through my still working power strip and fried my power supply.

I don't want to order another power supply untill I can confirm that the p.s. got fried.

thanks

 

[HappyPuppy]

Stick your nose up to the power supply fan and sniff. Smell burnt? PS is fried. Or, pull the PS out, open it up and visually inspect for burnt or melted components/circuit board. If the PSU is fried, you'll smell it, or, conversely, if you can smell it, it's fried.

A power surge got my father-in-law's PSU...................and his MB, and his CPU, and his HDD, and his graphics, sound and modem cards. The only thing I was able to salvage was the case.

Have a nice day.

 

[yeuemmaimai]

nothing like the smell of burnt silicon yummy ehehhe when i was in school, people used to take diodes and stick them in the 120V line and watch then glow like a light bulb for .01 sec and burn out