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Author Topic: Complex Troubleshooting (PC sparks after playing heavy games)  (Read 2386 times)

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polarpandabear

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    • Experience: Experienced
    • OS: Windows 7
    Hello!
    I'm new to this community and I just want ask for help to troubleshoot my system.
     
    The problem starts when my PC is on when there was a thunderstorm and suddenly a lightning strikes near our area. It cause our household to brownout and I saw my router and my motherboard sparking during that incident so I immediately pull off the plug. When power was restored, my PC won't turn on but the LED on my previous motherboard(ASUS) is on so I immediately buy a Thermaltake with the same wattage(500W) to replace the damaged power supply
     
    Luckily, my previous motherboard has a surge protection but sad to say, when I am about to render heavy files in Maya, my PC spark a little and restart again. so I troubleshoot myself with these steps:
     
    Monitor Heat and Voltage supply with Speccy - I suspect first that the problem was overheating
    Replace my motherboard (see below). - I think my motherboard was also damaged
    Replace my old video-card with Higher specs (see below) - and so my video card also
    Exchange a processor(AM3+) form my friend and reapply thermal paste
     
    But sad to say, when I render again the project. I hear some spark with my new motherboard. and I think that the spark was with the connection with 12V near the CPU.
     
    Here is my latest specs of my system,
     
    Operating System
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
     
    CPU
    AMD Athlon II X2 250 30 °C
    Regor 45nm Technology
     
    RAM
    4.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24)
     
    Motherboard
    MSI 880GMS-E41(FX) (MS-7641) (CPU1) 40 °C
     
    Graphics
    VA1916wSERIES (1440x900@60Hz)
    2048MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series (ATI AIB) 39 °C
     
    Hard Drives
    233GB SAMSUNG HD252HJ ATA Device (SATA) 36 °C
    466GB Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 ATA Device (SATA) 42 °C
     
    Optical Drives
    HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24LS70 ATA Device
     
    Audio
    Realtek High Definition Audio
     
    I already troubleshoot for a week but I need to fix my system ASAP. any recommendations? Thanks