Short circuited, now PC won't turn on

[a_a786]

Hi guys,

So the electricity in the room that my PC is hooked up suddenly turned of while the PC was turning on from standby mode. I switched the electric back on from the main beaker and the monitor and other external devices power on and work fine, but the PC won't turn on.

There are no beeps or anything, pretty much lifeless.

So I'm assuming the PSU fried but I want to make sure its the PSU and not the motherboard or anything else.

Is there a way to tell. I disconnected PSU from the tower and connected the power lead to see if it work, it did not. I tried a different power lead and also didn't work so it's all pointing towards the PSU, is there anyway to make sure?

My specs are as followsrocessor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-4790k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache
Case
InWIN G7 BRUSHED EFFECT DARK GREY CASE
Motherboard
ASUS® Z97-PRO GAMER: ATX, USB3.0, SATA 6GB/S, SLi, XFIRE
Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X FURY DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
6GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - 1 DVI, 1 HDMI, 3 DP
1st Hard Disk
500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W RM SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Extra Case Fans
1 x 12CM Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 4 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Windows 10 Upgrade
FREE Upgrade to Windows 10 with all Windows 7 & Windows 8.1 Purchases*
DVD Recovery Media
NO DVD RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

 

[SpyderTracks]

You can buy a multimeter from somewhere like maplins (not expensive), then check the output voltages from the PSU rails and make sure it's the voltages your expecting. You may well get a voltage coming out but it may not be as high as required if the things damaged.

 

[c2491cc]

Is there any way I can protect against power outages such as this?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Is there any way I can protect against power outages such as this?

Use a surge protected power strip to plug the pc into.

 

[a_a786]

Just received the replacement PSU for the PC and now it's back up and running like new.

I have the PC plugged into a surge protected extension so hopefully this won't happen again.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Just received the replacement PSU for the PC and now it's back up and running like new.

I have the PC plugged into a surge protected extension so hopefully this won't happen again.

Good good. I use surge protectors on my PC, laptop, TV and music gear. I haven't had any surge issues when using them and these days they're not that much more anyway, well worth it for peace of mind.

Glad it's living again.n