Computer help request urgent 

Hey, my PC just died and I have no fucking clue what to do about it. It wouldn't come out of hibernation, so I tried to power it down, and it wouldn't react to the power or reset buttons. I switched it off and on again via the PSU switch, but now it won't turn on at all.

I've cracked it open and it seems like the PSU clicks on when the power button is pressed, and there's definitely heat coming from it and the PSU fan starts up, but nothing else powers up.

re: Computer help request urgent 

@Vordus do your activity LEDs blink, do your fans spin up? if not, good chance your PSU is shot. The good news is that if you bought a decent PSU it hopefully died without taking any of the other parts with it, so good chance everything else is fine

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re: Computer help request urgent 

@Vordus also since I'm seeing that it's semi-modular: Do not reuse the cables with a new PSU, they're not standardized and I've heard of people frying their parts by assuming (as it is anywhere else in a compute) that if it fits it's probably compatible

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re: Computer help request urgent 

@noiob good to know!

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