Help - Did I Screw My Pc!!

[mogster]

Okay, there was a voltage switch on the back of my new PC that stated 210, I flipped it across and *pop*+smoke, despite the PC being turned off, it was still connected to the mains.
It's a weird sirtec brand, but the site does say;
Over Power Protection
Over Voltage Protection
Short Circuit Protection

I now know what the switch does, and we've bought a truepower 2.0 PSU, but will my PC be okay?????
Please say yes.

[Betamax]

Oops.

Hard to say really. It might have just blew the crap out of the psu, or the spike could have went further. Only way to be sure is to try powering it up w/ a new psu.

[mogster]

and when I do tonight, what happens if it has?
will it write off the new psu?

[Celine]

If you're lucky, only the PSU is fried. If you're the 9th caller, you get to buy a new motherboard too.

[mogster]

well, I find out when my Dad fits the new PSU in a couple of hours.
If the m/b ain't working, I'd just RMA the motherboard and say "sell motherboards that work!".. not buy a new one...
cus it's a new pc, as you can see the specs below VVV

Ooh, he's back, time to fit it!
Is it only the m/b that can go wrong? the psu is connected to EVERYTHING. Like the SATA HDDs : (

[General Plot]

Other more likely components to get hurt would be CPU, RAM and anything plugged into the PCI-E, AGP and/or PCI sockets.

[mogster]

Well, he's not fitting it until he's had his cup of tea : (
Any visible damage if so?

Yay, the fans are spinning, we havent actually connected the monitor yet.

Okay it works, but I still have the same one problem that I had before I blew up my PC. Here's the e-mail I sent to ECS;

I havent had time to play with my new PC, as after having it on for a while, the system bios told us the system was at 42*C and spun up the CPU fan after a while, it was nice and quiet to start up, but after a while it just gets noisy. The CPU is reported nice n cool, just the system seems hot. It seems cool on the inside, my Dad did say the heatsink with "ECS" written on it was rather warm, don't think the heat is coming from anywhere else... The graphics card has it's own fan, it's got a system fan, a PSU fan, and CPU fan!
So do you have an idea? Could the bios be lying and be disabled? Whats under the "ECS" heatsink, is it the bios?

[andré]

i dont understand. is your computer freezing up or emitting warning beeps? 42C for a system temp doesnt seem bad to me. I think mine is at 38. If your computer is running normally, then don't worry about it. the heatsink sits on top of your CPU chip (which will run way hotter than 42C). the bios is just software that reports on the status of your motherboard (not something you really want to mess with too much).

[mogster]

actually, turns out the entire motherboard, graphics card, heatsink, psu... everything is warm, about luke warm...
Seem odd?
I can't bare the CPU fan at 5000RPM, it's soo noisy after it's been on for 10mins or so, I think it's something up with the PC as whole...

No, there's no warning beeps or freezing, but it's too noisy and my Dad reckons it's too hot, before, after half an hour of being on, the CPU fan was like a siren, and the PC was at 47*C
The PC is definatly getting warm, hang on, eveything inside our other PC (I'm using now) is warm...
So it's just the CPU fan over-reacting?

So any verdict?
Both my Pcs boards are hot, so I think that's normal.
And my new one's CPU fan is going from 900RPM upto 4500RPM style on me ><
Think Intel just gave me a fauly CPU fan??
The CPU is 23*C, so I think that's okay

[General Plot]

mogster: you need to learn to use the edit button. That makes three times in this thread alone that I've had to merge your posts. If you have something to add to what you've already posted, edit your last post instead.

[mogster]

sorry, it's just been such a big event...
Hmm, i'm gonna try speed fan and see what temperature it goes with the fan at 1500rpm, if it gets any more, then I'll set it back and turn it off and see if it's worth sending the CPU fan back to intel. Though, with the fan speed going crazy, it might not be the fan... I just don't know!

[neoNMD]

well according to my bios, my north west port fan is running at 0rpm and my CPU fan is at 5000rpm but its silent.
i was going to overclock it but seen as the temp was 38C in the shade to begin with, i thought i'd save it for winter.

[mogster]

Warm PC.JPG

Nice screeny. The pc plays games okay, the onboard sound doesn't seem as intense as my sound blaster, and dists as soon as I up it with an equalizer. I can wirl around the map in heroes 5 and sims 2, it looks pretty good.


What the hell is URU? it came with my graphics card, so did XIII and Splinter cell pandora tomorrow, which I *might* install

[firyace]

Originally Posted by mogster

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Nice screeny. The pc plays games okay, the onboard sound doesn't seem as intense as my sound blaster, and dists as soon as I up it with an equalizer. I can wirl around the map in heroes 5 and sims 2, it looks pretty good.


What the hell is URU? it came with my graphics card, so did XIII and Splinter cell pandora tomorrow, which I *might* install

Where is your fan 2, cuz you better check it out, it might not be a faulty sensor (just in case)

[mogster]

Fan 2 is the CPU fan
Fan 1 is the system fan and is not connected to the motherboard.
There are also fans in the graphics card and PSU

It's an intel CPU fan and heatsink, and there was a whole 2 boxes of them in our IT corridor, maybe I should have felt guilty and nicked one.

Everyone do me a fave, stick your finger inside your PC and touch the motherboard and tell me if it's hot. You don't have to, but if you do, turn it off (at the plug!, you still have charge in it, not to mension it still powers mice, batteries etc.!) and don't give yourself a shock, it's not funky and it makes your sexy muscles tense : (
Well, the nintendo adapter was half open in my fist, thank god it dropped out ^^

[Coolsvilleman]

Originally Posted by General Plot

Other more likely components to get hurt would be CPU, RAM and anything plugged into the PCI-E, AGP and/or PCI sockets.

so basically everything, cept maybe a harddrive

[General Plot]

Well, everything that's plugged into a PSU is at risk, but hard drives, CD drives, etc..., are not as likely to be damaged.

[mogster]

I put a large fan by the PC, and it stayed cool, really cool, infact the CPU is running at a normal speed.

I think it needs better cooling,

But the HDD, which hovered around 40-43*C, when I ran a test, it told me the HDD was 94% healthy. Where's the 6%?
maybe RMA the HDD? It's spanking new, except it hasn't been spanked.
Everything is nice and cool except the HDD : (

[KillerShots]

I'm really not sure what your problem is... 42-48C is not bad. My last machine ranged from 52-65C, and had no problems. In fact, the docs stated that I should place my heat threshold at 80C for an automatic shut-down. The fan speed ranged from 2500-5000 RPMs (on both CPUs)... but it was never noisy.

Granted, my current machine runs at 32C with a fan speed of about 850 RPM (not even 1000)... I haven't bothered to check my docs for what the threshold should be on this machine.

As for your fan, it sounds like you don't have a sensor on the thing (at least for "Fan 2". The motherboard is seeing 0RPMs being reported, so it cranks the fan up to maximum. Depending on the fan, this can be quite noisy. This can be caused by a faulty fan, faulty wires to the fan, or by a faulty motherboard. You can try replacing the fan, but if that doesn't work, it's a motherboard issue. Honestly, it's probably something you can live with - not worth replacing a mobo over.

[DaStinger77]

You really need to do some research before posting things like this. My CPU runs at about 45C which is completely normal. Depending on your video card it could run at 60C and be normal. If you touch the heatsinks yes they are going to be hot and youll be lucky not to burn yourself, that means they are doing their job.

Heres an idea, once the new PSU gets put in, stop screwing with things so they keep on working.