OMG COMPUTER SHORT Damage done?

[Silentsnake]

Ok heres the scene, Computers on i find that my fan has become unplugged :S weird!,

Now what this fan was connected to was one of those fan pin connectors that connect on to a molex plug well i went to grab the pin cable (connected toeh molex) and it accidently touched the Mobo Tray causing a SPARK!! and my computer to shut off!

Has this done any damage to my computer!?

Thanks

SilentSnake

 

[k4p84]

Never play with your internals when its powered up.

Does it reboot?

If not try psu fuse.

still no..... check the board and components for scorched caused by arcing.

ED

 

[Ham]

Check for cosmetic damage

Check to see if it posts

Check to see if it boots

Bench/stress the crap out of it til your happy its stable.

 

[Silentsnake]

Ok well ive turned it on phew!, Theirs the tiniest hole where the spark occured bout the same size as a full stop

it booted with my 3.6ghz OC :s im gnna leave it running on prime 95 all night see if its ok

Thanks for the quick replies, anything else i should do or.? im thinking of putting my OC back to stock

 

[k4p84]

A hole... through the board!!

Leave it as is and put it through prime for a good 12-24 hours.

if it stays stable your a lucky chap and learn from your mistakes

ED

 

[Silentsnake]

A hole... through the board!!

Leave it as is and put it through prime for a good 12-24 hours.

if it stays stable your a lucky chap and learn from your mistakes

ED

lool... im praying that their is nothing wrong with it i cant belive how stupid i was!

 

[Nick R]

You play with fire, you get burnt. You play with electricity, you screw up your rig . Make sure your PC is powered off next time.

 

[Rastalovich]

Theoretically u`ve introduced 5/12v to the chasis, making the ground/0v equal that. *Hopefully* it can make the mobo behave as if the potential powering it is now 0v and it shutdown.

Ur problem would be if any abnormal current was introduced, but it doesn`t sound like it. Similar currents can be induced if ur heavily charged and play with the case. (very rare in itself)

 

[Marcus]

Never play with your internals when its powered up.

lol I dropped a thumbscrew on the back of my GPU once... buggered the display right up.

 

[Silentsnake]

lol I dropped a thumbscrew on the back of my GPU once... buggered the display right up.

lol, ive done similar things before, but ive been lucky it never shorted, its just a pain trying to find and get that screw out

 

[Silentsnake]

Theoretically u`ve introduced 5/12v to the chasis, making the ground/0v equal that. *Hopefully* it can make the mobo behave as if the potential powering it is now 0v and it shutdown.

Ur problem would be if any abnormal current was introduced, but it doesn`t sound like it. Similar currents can be induced if ur heavily charged and play with the case. (very rare in itself)

This may sound silly, but how would the current become introduced to my motherboard if it only touched the mobo tray, the only thing i can think of it that it arced from the tray to the mobo its self but i dont thing it has a strong enough charge to do so

 

[Rastalovich]

In theory, ur i/o plate at the rear of the pc is both connected to the mobo and tray, creating a connection that`s meant to be grounded/earthed.

The plate is there so that if u go to plug something in and there`s a potential short within the case of the pc, u don`t `tingle` urself. Also doubles as a prevention of static for those o-so-vital components.

 

[k4p84]

I used to get regular shocks from one of my VCRs, always entertaining if you wanted to change tapes

 

[Zoot]

Leave it Prime for a few days straight. Shouldn't be any cause to worry after that. If you saw smoke I would get very worried then. Any IC's I've fried in the past (The biggest of which was an FPGA) have always accompanied by smoke aswell as a spark.

lol I dropped a thumbscrew on the back of my GPU once... buggered the display right up.

I once pulled out the Sata cable to the hard drive containing the OS installation from the motherboard while running the OS at the time.

It was one of the few BSODs I ever got with XP.