So I shorted my PSU with a lost screw...

[Morbus]

Yeah, building my new PC, dropped a screw in there and forgot about it.

As soon as I turned on the PSU (not the PC itself), it shorted out and took the whole house's electricity off with it.
Panic. Obviously.

The PSU died, it was a 7 month old 700W Aero Cool that served me well and was pretty great. My fear was that it had taken the rest of the PC with it. Brand new SSD and GTX760, new i5 and RAM and board, the lot. Short trip to the nearest IT store, bought a Urano VX 650W for 45€, it's totally over rated, I know, shouldn't reach 500W even, but it's enough for a single GTX 760.

Arrived home, tried it out and it works like a charm. The whole PC works like a charm and it's all well.

Just sharing my story. Thanks for reading.

 

[CRCSUX]

Im glad to hear its all working, my boss did the same thing except it crunched the mobo aswell. Now the computer when booting will fall over the first time and complete the boot the second time. It angered him to much after that so I got a free mobo/cpu

 

[bryanl]

I once overheard a long meeting about whether a deeply buried monitoring instrument should be retrieved or left in place due to a single screw falling into it during installation. It turned out the device had been designed to tolerate that possibility.

 

[Morbus]

As i turned out, it was a good thing that it blew the PSU. It would be much more expensive (and time consuming) to replace the motherboard or any other component.