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My HDD started smoking could it be a faulty PSU?

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john5220

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Right there on the circuit board. could it be the power supply unit that caused this? its a cooler master 460W elite.

This happened when I took apart my PSU to clean it and put it back on the PC just won't boot at all for some strange reason. When I pulled out the cable from the HDD suddenly it booted.

The HDD was kind of resting on part of the case and I am not sure if something touched 2 points on the metal of the case and caused this to smoke?

its currently running fine I pray nothing happens to my SSD or anyother parts of my PC
could I have done something wrong when I was cleaning and reassembling the housing on the PSU? I used a clean new paint brush

the HDD was a old Hitachi deskstar from another PC that used to give same issues where there would be no power when you press the button but I don't know if this same HDD was the reason for that or what.
 
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john5220 said:
This happened when I took apart my PSU to clean it and put it back on the PC just won't boot at all for some strange reason. When I pulled out the cable from the HDD suddenly it booted.
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was it off???Not only the hdd is fried.you better check the psu out of the case.Lucky if nothing else is toasted
 
it was off and I turned it on and I literally saw smoke coming from the HDD mainboard where the diode is.

Since then it seems to be working fine.
 
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