Desktop doesn't turn on/possible psu problem

stelphil

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Dec 9, 2014
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Good evening to all,
the problem appeared when i pushed the on/off button and there was no response from anything in the case and after i pushed the button within seconds the Circuit breaker(i don't know if it is the right word) of the room turned off.The desktop was connected to a power strip and the power strip is not the problem because i tried it and it works alone and i also tried connecting the desktop directly to a socket(at two different sockets at different rooms) and there was no response.The PSU is a Corsair GS 600 and the rest of the system consists of:
cpu i7 2600k (overclocked at 4,4 Ghz,passed a 28 hours prime95 without any problem so i decided i could leave it there)
motherboard Asrock z77 Fatality Professional-M
GPU amd hd6870
an cd/dvd drive and two HDDs.
I have no backup psu to try.
Is it a sign that the psu is dead or could it be something else?
Thank you in advance
 

MrTeal

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Dec 7, 2003
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Good evening to all,
the problem appeared when i pushed the on/off button and there was no response from anything in the case and after i pushed the button within seconds the Circuit breaker(i don't know if it is the right word) of the room turned off.The desktop was connected to a power strip and the power strip is not the problem because i tried it and it works alone and i also tried connecting the desktop directly to a socket(at two different sockets at different rooms) and there was no response.The PSU is a Corsair GS 600 and the rest of the system consists of:
cpu i7 2600k (overclocked at 4,4 Ghz,passed a 28 hours prime95 without any problem so i decided i could leave it there)
motherboard Asrock z77 Fatality Professional-M
GPU amd hd6870
an cd/dvd drive and two HDDs.
I have no backup psu to try.
Is it a sign that the psu is dead or could it be something else?
Thank you in advance

Even if you have a short somewhere downstream of the PSU, you should not trip a circuit breaker. The PSU is most likely toast. You can unplug all the cables from the DC side of the PSU and test just the PSU to see if it turns on.
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-power-up-an-ATX-Power-Supply-without-a-PC/?ALLSTEPS
 

VirtualLarry

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Did the power strip have a breaker too? The good ones do. I'm surprised that the breaker on the power strip didn't trip before the house circuit one did.
 

MrTeal

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Dec 7, 2003
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Did the power strip have a breaker too? The good ones do. I'm surprised that the breaker on the power strip didn't trip before the house circuit one did.

Depends on what you have plugged in and what strip you have. Pretty much all breakers are thermal and some have faster response times than others. If your breaker for that branch circuit has 5-10A of other stuff on it, it could definitely trip faster a cheap power bar.
 

stelphil

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Dec 9, 2014
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thank you for your quick answers.i tried the green wire test with no result. i saw that the power strip does have a fuse but i can't see if it is busted. the power strip isn't working properly now meaning that it has a master/slave sockets and it says at the master socket 5-500W, it has indicators for electricity connected,earthening protection and slave socket working and it has a switch to turn on/off the master/slave funcionality which now is not working. what could the reason on the psu failing? could it be the overclocking? the power strip?bad luck?there were no blackouts.