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Mko

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Went out of my room to do something while my pc with only a single chrome tab open,then when I came back it was just off and won’t turn back on
How do I figure out what wrong? My guess is PSU but iam not sure,if it was the PSU suddenly dying should I be really concerned of the other hardware being damaged
 
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Did you try flipping the psu switch?....could be a tripped psu.
 
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Went out of my room to do something while my pc with only a single chrome tab open,then when I came back it was just off and won’t turn back on
How do I figure out what wrong? My guess is PSU but iam not sure,if it was the PSU suddenly dying should I be really concerned of the other hardware being damaged
Could be the PSU. Or it could be some other component causing a short, like a failing HDD or GPU.

And whether you should be concerned about other components if it is your PSU, that depends on your PSU. If it's a high quality model, then probably not. If it's a cheap noname sh**, then... well...
 
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Could be the PSU. Or it could be some other component causing a short, like a failing HDD or GPU.

And whether you should be concerned about other components if it is your PSU, that depends on your PSU. If it's a high quality model, then probably not. If it's a cheap noname sh**, then... well...
Yes, flip the back switch on the psu off then on. Most boards have lights that will show up if there is power but if not you can pit power and see if any thing tries to turn on. If does then its a short in something. It happened to me a great many years ago which my gtx1080 just randomly dying and shorting out.
 
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