Basically, the PSU blew out while I was cleaning it. I forgot to unplug it from the power socket. However, I'm hoping that parts may or may not have survived. I've never had this happen before. I'm thinking that, if bad voltage shot into my motherboard, that I would have possibly felt it (since I was literally lying against it while I tried to pick out a piece of dust in my PSU). I sneezed, missing the dust and hitting the voltage cylinder thing and it ended up making this blinding light. I smelled only smoke from the PSU and no where else. When I've blown PSUs, every time, the comptuer had been on. THOSE times the other parts would get fried. I'm praying to God that the motherboard wasn't fried ... I don't know anything about electricity but from what I've seen on TV there's usually some sort of quick indication that something like that were to have fried. (The other times when the motherboards I've had got fried showed immediate signs).
Could my other parts have survived? If it were on, theoretically, maybe I would have seen other things pop since it's an open case. I have an eidetic memory, and I swear, nothing looks different other than my PSU. I think I'm a bit lucky that I even survived my idiot moment. Could anyone tell me if there's any sure way of knowing whether or not the electricity surged through into the motherboard? It may have ... if my knowledge on circuits is true, but I can't be so sure. I'm new at building computers and this was actually the first PSU that blew out on my custom built computer.
My new PSU is coming in the mail ... Coolermaster Extreme Power Plus 550W ATX 12V V2.3 Silent Power Supply 20/24PIN. It actually isn't so new since I've worked with it in my build - it's actually the PSU that I had fried by accident. Is it an okay quality sort of PSU?
You blew it up? o.o
Congrats, Now you made a Homemade C4.
