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Ok, what did I kill, yes I am an idiot

Squisher

Squisher

Lifer
My name is Squisher and I am an idiot. I noticed that I had forgotten to plug in my cpu fan to the power supply after I booted up so being the highly intelligent fellow that I am I decided to plug in the molex connector "hot". As I got the two connectors close to one another there was an arc, then nothing, no power, nothing. Anybody's best guess as to which order I should start exchanging components first? mobo, cpu, ps, vid card?
 
PSU. Have you tried unplugging the power cable from the PSU for a few minutes and then plugging it back in and trying to power on the computer. I made a similar dumb@ss move one day and used the steps above and it worked fine. All I did was shorted out my PSU and it needed to be reset. The steps above were how to reset my PSU.
 
that sounds pretty terrible... i would firstly check power supply, although the way you put it, it's dead... Then mother board. Then if the molex'es you were using branched off check those devices.
I would personally check each piece individually by testing in different system, before you start ordering.

Mind you, i dont have much experience with power surges or arcs,or what have you with power. im just throwing my opinion into the mix.
 
I too would start with the power supply.

Something similar happened to me about 5 years ago when I pulled the power cable, with the system hot, to determine whether a particular hard drive was spinning. The power arced and then everything in the puter went dark and quiet. I did not know that a power supply could be reset so I just replaced it and everything else was fine.

Hopefully in your case it won't be anything more serious than a PS.
 
heh I nearly had the same, I used my own soldered fan molex for a fan with rather too high current or resistance I suppose cous instead of turning the fan sparks flew over from one part of teh soldering to the other, I quickly turned off teh power, let it cool down for an hour (was REALLY hot) and then I booted back on, only one dead fan and fried molex adaptor ...

 
Power Supply was the problem. It had to reset itself. It was kinda weird the way it took some time for it to reset. Just had to sit there for a few minutes and wait, then finally it turned back on. Thanks all.
 
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