Tactical

I had actually read that same link the night before lol, I posted my situation on a few forums, and someone linked me to that. Anyways, I took back that graphics card, and used the cash to buy an Antec TP-750 blue PSU. It's pretty nice and was on sale for $123 at fry's. But there's also some bad news. Apparently something else went along with the old PSU. There's no burnt electronics smell, the capacitors on the mobo look fine, the processor looks fine, visually, everything looks good right now. But when I flip on the power, the fans and lights come on, I can open the cd/tray, and the hard drive disks spin, but I'm not getting any video signal. My monitor reads the card, as it doesn't say "no signal" but it's not actually receiving a signal. The screen stays black. So, I'm trying to figure out if maybe my ram fried, or my processor, or maybe the mobo went bad too. I can't even get BIOS right now, so I'm going to assume it's either the processor or the mobo. What do you guys think? On a side note, what controls whether the PSU is on or off? Besides the power switch on the PSU. Because this computer has had an ongoing issue, where occasionally it will power on for a few seconds, and then power back off again, and it would repeat the cycle until you messed with it for a bit of flipping on and off the power. Would it be the motherboard? I noticed that even with the new PSU, it just had that same issue a moment ago. Here's a pic of what it currently looks like.

After a bit of digging around online, I've also come to the conclusion it was most likely the power supply. The fuse was still intact, but there was a faint smell of burnt electronics within the PSU. The motherboard doesn't have any burn marks, and rather than dealing with the new video card, I just returned it to the store which I bought it from. After a bit of research, I decided the GTX 460 would be a better buy anyways. (Aside from now needing the cash for a new PSU... None of the capacitors are swollen or burst, so hopefully the mobo is still okay. The PSU was a 650 watts, max. The graphics card minimum specs was a 550 watt PSU. However after looking at my current PSU, I noticed there was no name brand, the only markings I found was an inspection back in 2008, so it very well may have been a cheaply made product that was dying anyways, and the card just drew in a bit more current than it could handle despite the 650 watt spec.

Hi, I'm not really much of a hardware guru, and I'd like to ask for a little help. I am a gamer, and just bought a new graphics card for my computer. It worked fine for about six hours, and then next thing I know, I hear a "pop" I see a small flash from inside my case, and then there's nothing. It temperature inside the case was a little warm, but it wasn't hot. However my only assumption at this point is either the card overheated, or my processor overheated. The graphics card I bought was a Galaxy 1GB Geforce GTX 465. My system specs were: An Intel 6600 quad processor, 2GB DDR2 ram, and I'm not positive on the motherboard, I haven't really looked at it, and a 650 watt PSU. Cooled by like 4 internal fans, as well as a well ventilated case. I was playing battlefield bad company 2 at the time when my computer fried. This morning, I pulled out the graphics card and reinstalled my old one, just to make sure it wasn't the card. However my computer still won't start. No beeps, no lights, nothing. Does anyone know how I can diagnose what went wrong, and what sort of repairs I would be looking at? Basically.. what should I do now? Thanks! -Tact