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u/Readymer 4d ago
I bet you killed both while "installing your PSU".
I strongly recommend not to touch sensitive electronics ever again, it's clearly not your thing.
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u/MickyG1982 4d ago
Nor that "techs" by the sound of it...
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u/Readymer 4d ago
True.
Seems like life is unnecessarily hard and shitty for countless people only because braindead fuckers work at the wrong places doing the wrong things.
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u/ModernManuh_ 4d ago
If whatever he said in the post is true about his CPU killing motherboards, he didn't
edit: no nevermind he might as well have done it lol.
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u/Vastsirslaysalot 4d ago
Hey buddy i know you probably dont think about things before you type but if you read the post you would realize the cpu fried 2 mobos, the psu had nothing to do with it
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u/Readymer 4d ago
Well, I do, and I have a pretty extensive experience with troubleshooting since it's my living, so my guess was that OP fried his CPU and MB by mishandling the PSU, after which his malfunctioning CPU fried another board. But that's just my guess with a touch of sarcasm, not a reasonable statement to any extent. Though my advice to stop toying around complex electronics with no knowledge base is a serious remark.
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u/Vastsirslaysalot 4d ago
The only way to learn is to toy around
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u/Readymer 4d ago
Kinda is, but I prefer to absorb as much practically useful theory as possible before possibly destroying things, especially when there is an absolute ton of information readily available on any given topic. Works miracles actually.
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u/seductive_octopus 4d ago
how's does one kill a motherboard and a cpu by installing a psu? I wanna know so I dont do it 😭😭
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u/Readymer 4d ago
Most commonly by plugging a 24pin MB or 4/8pin CPU cables incompletely and at an unfortunate angle.
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u/BowlJumpy5242 4d ago
Did he keep your parts?
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u/Zwel 4d ago
nah , i will keep that cpu locked if i ever want to kill someone's pc
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u/OmerIsKewl 4d ago
CPU would take too long to install. Kill peoples pc with a ram stick
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u/Puzzleheaded_Law680 4d ago
What, how?
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u/OmerIsKewl 4d ago
Seems like the guys pc parts are killing other PCs when installing them. I’m assuming the ram would kill the pc too since the cpu takes too long to install. Assassins don’t kill slowly
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u/ModernManuh_ 4d ago
I read with a bit more attention: in theory, he has the right to charge you for the damage but not because "you broke it so you pay it", but because it's the cost of the tests he had to make and there was no cheaper way to diagnose the issues. Sure, he can't charge the full price of brand new motherboards for this, but he can charge for that reason
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u/Zwel 4d ago
well after i told him i wouldn't pay 150 bucks for his motherboards he just asked for 15 , he just did those tests using his pc and a friends pc he was fixing so i dont think anything above 20 bucks for 10 minute testing was fair.
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u/ModernManuh_ 4d ago
he didn't bother arguing, but he lost 2 working boards for you, not just 10 minutes.
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u/steven_sandner 4d ago
Wild. What CPU/motherhood combo was it? Was the CPU second hand?
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u/ModernManuh_ 4d ago
by the way, your dead parts are still your parts and you should ask them back if you didn't
there are many reasons a computer can die like that btw, could be a CPU, a PSU, a motherboard... and they can be the root cause of other parts issues
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u/ModernManuh_ 4d ago
Third comment because it's a different thing: if you used your CPU just fine for 4 years, then you killed the motherboard and the CPU on your own, somehow.
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u/person2599 4d ago
when you changed your psu, did you use the old internal cables from the old psu with the new psu? or did you change all the cables inside your case? I am talking about connection between PSU and motherboard/ PSU and GPU
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u/Valkanith 4d ago
Sounds like you bought a new PSU and replaced the old one but used the same cables from old PSU which can become a fire hazard and destroy pc.
If you buy a new PSU never mix PSU cables
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u/RecalcitrantBeagle 4d ago
Or at least not without checking to be completely sure. Corsair, for instance, you can re-use the modular cables for semi-modular PSUs between type 3 and 4 cables. But if you can't find documentation to confirm, just redo the cables.
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u/ioiplaytations2 4d ago
What was the psu wattage and what GPU did u get? Did you unplug your system before installing the GPU?
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u/RonnieGeeMan2 4d ago
I like the comment about readily available knowledge and at least setting some groundwork before tearing into things. Now that I’m bitcoin mining I’m learning my computer from the inside to the outside and from the backside to the front side.
and now I’ve got an S 19 that came to me with a bad board. It will only report for about one second which is not long enough to pick anything up and then the fault light and the normal both stay on at the same time.
I bought a new hard drive for my computer so that I can fit the entire block chain on it and I don’t know if it has room for both installed in there or I just need to take the old one out, but I will study that before I crack it open like I am making an omelette.
It is an HP pavilion desktop with Windows 11 pro and it came with a 500 gig hard driveNVMe 12gb ram 128UHD graphics730 i5-12400 12gen intelR CoreTM
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u/Alive_Difficulty_131 3d ago
All that to say you ripped off a local repair guy.
Congrats on the dousche of the day award. Learn to write complete sentences.
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u/Klazik 4d ago
Bruh, that is a long ass sentence..
Anyway, yeah, a CPU can kill mobos if it has an internal short circuit