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Computer suddenly shut down and will not boot back up.

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Malilizi

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I was in the middle of playing WoW when my computer suddenly shut off. I tried turning it back on several times over the last 45 minutes.

The motherboard reset light comes on, the power light is on but red, also a TPU II light is on. When trying to boot up, there are no sounds, no beeps, no fan spin but some cosmetic CPU lights come on. Moved the power from surge protector to wall.

I noticed that my computer was partially on my rug and has been there since Thursday when I moved it for vacuuming, not sure if this was the culprit. How do I determine what component may have failed? Thank you.
 
First off, do you have another spare, working, power supply to do a test swap with?

Second, if your current PSU is located on the bottom of the chassis, it is possible that it draws air up from the bottom, and by putting the PC on a rug, you choked off the airflow for the PSU, causing it to overheat and fail.

Edit: That's a nice rig, far from crap, and far from a crap PSU. (Seasonic X-series 850W, for those reading this.)

I would think, being a high-quality PSU, that it would shut down due to overtemp protection, before any permanent damage occurred.

Likewise, that CPU and the motherboard that it is plugged into, should shut down, due to overtemp, unless you disabled that feature for overclocking purposes (not a wise idea).
 
VirtualLarry said:
First off, do you have another spare, working, power supply to do a test swap with?

Second, if your current PSU is located on the bottom of the chassis, it is possible that it draws air up from the bottom, and by putting the PC on a rug, you choked off the airflow for the PSU, causing it to overheat and fail.
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The only spare psu I have is only 600w. If I try to boot it up with that could it hurt anything? I'm going to test the current psu in another computer later today. I have done no overclocking. It still does not boot up this morning which makes me lean away from overheating. There were no burning smells and nothing felt overly hot when it initally happened.

I built this almost exactly a year ago.
 
Take out the video card and see if it will boot on tbe Intel graphics. If it doesn't, try the spare PSU.
 
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