dolf77

No, its whirring. Its definetly whirring. I have become accustomed to the sounds it makes when it boots and i can say with somecertainty it has loaded windows and is just sitting there. No picture though. I think i may have part baked my motherboard and i think my graphics card has been a victim

OH DEAR Just like to satart by saying thanks for all the advice I got my new PSU and my computer now has power but it is not booting up. The hard drive is clicking as though it is processing, it sounds like it did before the blackout but there is nothing on the screen and no boot up. What do i do?

Are there any signs to a damaged motherboard? Could the smell of burning come from there?

do you know what will happen if the motherboard is cooked? will it just not load?

ive managed to order one for 15 quid so its not too bad im **** scared i have frazzled the motherboard

Hi there, i need some urgent help from someone who knows their stuff. I recently fitted my quad core, 8gb ram computer with a new hard drive. An extra 500 gb SATA drive which i unplugged the DVD drive inside so i had the connectors [dont use the DVD drive and just needed to power the extra HDD] So i put it in, formatted it and for 48 - 72 hours everything was working fine. Put info on the new drive and, if anything, i noticed that shifting 500 gbs from my primary drive to this new one was making my comp work more quickly. I noticed that there was a fair amount of heat coming from the computer. Not loads but hotter than usual. Then the strangest 60 seconds of my computing life occured. The temperature emanating from the rear of the computer soared. The fan started to make a louder noise than usual. I panicked and thought i needed to shut this thing down. As i was in the process, the music i was listening to started to slow down. Actually slow down. After 15 seconds of this the computer died. I sat in shock and left it 10 minutes. Being a novice [and idiot] i thought it may have been a sporadic temperature fault that would just need some cooling. I put the machine back on which started up for five second, crackled a little and died again. This time for good. It hasnt started again since. I smelt trhe smell of something in the air. Whether it was a fried power supply or motherboard i dont know but something was really hot and smelling like burnt. So here i am, looking at the machine and it doesnt work. The conclusions i have come to are thus - The power supply packed up just because thats what they do sometimes - The power supply packed up because the extra energy needed for the new hard drive was too much for the 450 watt psu. - Due to the slowing of the music, i cant help but think that the motherboard just died. I cannot see anything on the motherboard or components to suggest huge damage. The psu smells like burnt plastic. The computer is only 6 months old so this is a real concern. Can anyone help me? Does a new hard drive [in SATA form] require a larger power supply? Thank you in advance. Cheers