Yeah.. He's had nothing but problems.

assholes.

Yeah Andy, 8gb ram, more than enough and over 1TB of free space. Getting a new PSU tomorrow, so I think it's just that. My uncle who's getting it for me and who put the pc together thinks that it was too small to deal with the new gpu. it's a 500W psu which isn't high by any standards really.

8GB ram and 1TB free space?? WOW...


Too bad it doesnt work.. MUAhahahahahahahhaa.

I have also 8gb ram and 1,5TB Free Space, hopefully mine will not do the same.

The PSU being too small to power the contents is a good assumption.

So yeah try swapping out the power supply with a spare/borrowed one for now would be my first bet. If it works again then get yourself a higher capacity PSU next time.

Whatever happened I hope it didn't damage any other internals. Heat is a bitch of an enemy to computer parts

Keep us updated with how you go.

heh, i wrote an post yesterday about the importance of choosing correct psu but it is wiped out?
anyway, lets hope for the best

Thanks for the suggestions

Got a new PSU on the way tonight, I think it's a 800W one which should be good. Another thing is i rarely switch off the pc, and when i do it's for an update so the pc is only switched off for 2 mins. Come to think of it, I can't remember the last time the entire thing had time to cool down properly so maybe that's it too. I've got a surge protector in between the mains and everything electrical so fingers crossed there wasn't a huge surge of power to wipe everything out. It's crap, I have work to do for people and I can't because the pc aint working

couple of times in the the summer i was on mine from for like 13/14 hours in one day and my pc
was like right infront of a wall and the power supply cable overheated and melted inside
so watch out for that aswell if its infront of a wall or something
turn it off everytime you go to bed or away from it for like a few hours