MasterBlaster76
ICC Chairman
I'm typing this on my nephew's laptop.
OK, so I went to turn on the PC, it turned on for a split second, then turned off and at the same time a few other electrical items in the room turned off as well. Sort of the thing that happens when you turn on a light and the bulb blows? It triggers one of the switches on the electricity panel downstairs - upon turning that back on, all the other devices are fine but the one that blew remains dead of course.
Going by what I've said, what do you think is the likely cause? My money's on the PSU - although it is a good PSU, a Corsair 650w. Also, I need to find out what the likelihood of any of the components being taken down as well, because if enough of them have it makes more sense to just buy a new PC. Otherwise I'll get it bought to my usual PC shop so they can sort it out.
If the PC is salvageable, then I'm going to take the chance to upgrade the GPU at the same time its in the shop, so any suggestions with a budget of around ?120-200 would be great. I hope the HDD can at least be accessed so I don't have to start completely from scratch. I was meaning to buy a backup external HDD for a while now, but the prices have been so high recently, I was waiting for them to come down.
Thanks in advance for any help.
OK, so I went to turn on the PC, it turned on for a split second, then turned off and at the same time a few other electrical items in the room turned off as well. Sort of the thing that happens when you turn on a light and the bulb blows? It triggers one of the switches on the electricity panel downstairs - upon turning that back on, all the other devices are fine but the one that blew remains dead of course.
Going by what I've said, what do you think is the likely cause? My money's on the PSU - although it is a good PSU, a Corsair 650w. Also, I need to find out what the likelihood of any of the components being taken down as well, because if enough of them have it makes more sense to just buy a new PC. Otherwise I'll get it bought to my usual PC shop so they can sort it out.
If the PC is salvageable, then I'm going to take the chance to upgrade the GPU at the same time its in the shop, so any suggestions with a budget of around ?120-200 would be great. I hope the HDD can at least be accessed so I don't have to start completely from scratch. I was meaning to buy a backup external HDD for a while now, but the prices have been so high recently, I was waiting for them to come down.

Thanks in advance for any help.