Your computer is experiencing significant issues.
Your computer is experiencing significant issues.
Hi There, Firstly, I want to thank you for taking your time out to read this, this is a very interesting but scary problem I have going on and I have no clue on how to fix this issue. I was playing some games 3 days ago until my PC black screened and completely turned off, I tried starting up the PC and it didn't turn on. I diagnosed this issue and I found out it was my old power supply that went and my motherboard had completely shorted out. So I replaced the two... I then put the new parts in and then noticed none of my windows icons were showing. It was showing the "White Page" Placeholder icon on all of my icons. I thought that maybe the current windows version was messing with my parts since I changed to another Motherboard. I then fully reset my PC, once I had done that; My PC was missing Microsoft Store and I couldn't install NVIDIA Control Panel, I thought maybe there was an issue with my Windows Version, so I looked online and found out I had to run "wsreset.exe" and other stuff, but I had no luck trying to get it, but when I clicked on NVIDIA Control panel in the windows search, It let me download it which was strange... but I moved on. Then today, I was playing some games like usual, then I went toilet, when I came back my PC had black screened and was BURNING hot, I could smell something was burning.I disconnected my PC to the mains, and turned off my power supply using the button on the back, I then opened my case, waited like 30 mins for everything to cooldown, and then started it back up, It turned on but went off in a flash, I then turned off and looked online, I tried taking out the CMOS battery, waiting 30 seconds -2 mins and then starting back up, then I tried taking out the RAM, moving them around, Trying them with and without, still no luck, and now I am left without options... What do I do...
The motherboard functioned properly before the incident occurred...
Typically, "burning hot" isn't very informative since human skin doesn't accurately reflect PC component health. However, detecting smoke or melted plastic is important. You should check your PC for physical damage—removing components can be difficult but essential. Begin with the power supply; it happened to my living room PC recently. The PSU emitted a strange smoke.
In short, the PSU malfunction damaged the motherboard, and after swapping both units the system failed again due to overheating. My initial guesses were that the processor or other parts might have been affected, or perhaps two faulty PSUs were installed together. It’s worth noting that PSU issues can completely wipe out a setup. I’ve experienced a situation where a bad PSU caused my backup drive to crash. Right now I’m hesitant to rely on anything from the original system—just a few dollars. Try to recover data from the drives and start over. A quick check for electrical problems like noise, voltage changes, or ground loops could also help, as these often cause such issues unexpectedly.