My desktop computer suddenly stopped working today. When it happened, the fuse in the house was also knocked off. After switching it back on, I tried to turn the computer back on but nothing happened - no fan started spinning, no led lighted on, no sparks, no noise - nothing.
Because of the fuse knock-off, my first suspicion was PSU failure so I read up a bit on signs of this because I've only experienced PSU failure and it was long ago, so I don't remeber the symptoms of it. I found out that signs might be - amongst others - significantly increased boot time and random lockups during normal load.
I've experienced both of these, though I assumed the slow boot time to be because of my HDD being old. Random lockups though were kind of different from what I've read - I read that people experiencing such issues could only get their computers back to work after a lockup by powering it off manually and then powering it back on. For me, lockups meant that Windows was kind of "hang up", the cursor was moving, but no interaction really happened - hovering an icon of a running program on the taskbar didn't show up the peek image of it, window switching didn't work, couldn't minimize, maximize or close a program and such things. Then after a couple of seconds, it started working normally.
Visible or smellable signs were not present, no molten or blow-off capacitors on the motherboard, no unusual smell.
I haven't added any new hardware for almost a year, and the system have been perfectly functional until now, and the PSU power should be more than enough for my system. (It's a Corsair CX600 (Watts) PSU running a 2nd gen Core i5 2400 CPU, ASUS GF GTX 750 TI (OC) graphics card, ASUS P8H77-V LE Mobo, 4x2 gigs of Corsair XMS3 1600MHz RAM, single hdd.
So please tell your thoughts, is my suspicion right about the PSU failing, or do you think it's something else.
Thank you.
Answer
It was a power supply failure.
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