Tennis Ball messed up my PC... I know </3

[Le Frosty]

Hey guys, I didn't really know where to post this thread since I don't know what actually happened with my PC... I am very frustrated since I only fixed the failure of the PSU. Had to wait a bunch of time to get it replaced x.x

Anyways, the story goes..

I was sitting on my PC while my brother was playing with a tennis ball next to me. He lost control over it and it hit the top fan area of my case. The machine turned off and kept restarting although it didn't even boot... I am wondering about what happened because after I came back from church, I took the GPU and RAM out of the mobo and put it back in. This time, everything booted perfectly and through BIOS, I booted windows from my hard drive. Now I know that the hard drive is perfectly fine since everything was on there and still is.

It is very irritating!! Does anyone have any ideas of what actually happened? I cant believe that a stupid tennis ball could have done something to a £500 strongly built PC.. Really can't...

Here is a YouTube video that shows what happens when I turn the PC on..

Thanks in advance - Frosty

 

[barnsley]

Sounds like it gradually loses power. Tried taking the motherboard out and reseating it?

 

[Le Frosty]

Do you think that will work mate? & Do you think it is a PSu issue or something else? thanks a bunch

 

[SeekaX]

it goes into bootloop, either the PSU or the mainboard is broken.

 

[Wraith]

Are all your fan headers securely fastened? I've seen this happen to a system in the past and all it was was the H60 corsair pump on the CPU header had shifted only a millimeter but because the pump wasn't well.... pumping after about 10 seconds it would thermal trip out and boot loop.

The only other thing I can think of that could have failed due to impact would be the HDD but you really need to shock (impact) a drive to kill it, although I have in the past had external seagate drives take only a slight knock and they were K-nackered sometimes they would work fine and othertimes they just wouldn't.

 

[SPS]

I'd check for lose connections. The chance of a PSU and/or mobo breaking from a tennis ball hitting the top of the case has got to be pretty damn slim surely.

 

[Le Frosty]

Hi there.. I was trying to make it work but it still failed. I think I have noticed the issue... Looks like one of the heatsinks on my motherboard broke.. You can hear a bell sound and metal parts bouncing of the top of the heat sink. It is quite bad xDDD I had coil whine too...

Honestly can't believe how a heat sink could break because of a tennis ball... It had to be badly made.

Now, I still got warranty, but am I going to get it replaced? :/

I am genuinely laughing because that seemed impossible to me.. A tennis ball breaking a heat sink of an MSI board that was supposed to be strong and very high quality... Seriouslyy?
The thing that makes it even worse is that there was a case covering it aswell.. how did that happen then? Really weird x.x

Thanks for all the suggestions

 

[SPS]

Possibly the point at where it hit created a direct enough force to resonate through the case? Who knows, you may have damaged it before and not noticed until a small force made it worse. Seems bizarre that it would cause it to boot loop though..

 

[SeekaX]

i think you won't have any problems replacing that board, that's like the heatsink breaking after you moved your PC, shouldn't happen.

 

[Le Frosty]

i have had coil whine/wire whatever gor quite a bit of time... i cant seem to remember anything that could have broken it before but yeaah, gonna have to replace it thanks for your help lads :')

 

[SuB]

So, am I right in saying your case side panel was off?

 

[notcool]

Now, I still got warranty, but am I going to get it replaced? :/

I am genuinely laughing because that seemed impossible to me.. A tennis ball breaking a heat sink of an MSI board that was supposed to be strong and very high quality... Seriouslyy?
P

Maybe they should include this as part of the Military Class Certificate of Authenticity testing procedures. :lol: