Right guys I did something a bit strange.
I got a computer off my college lecturer for £100. Decided to build it myself with my friend.
The spec is pretty old but it gives me somewhere to start until I can order a motherboard bundle and a graphics card and reuse my case and hard drive. I had to buy the case separately.
Anyway we got everything together, and most things seemed right but nothing was booting, no CPU fan, not even the PSU fan was moving, just a green led on the motherboard and PSU. We where switching everything on and off trying to get it to work, plugging stuff in. It turns out after we did something wrong (will say in a minute) that we hadn't plugged something in properly.
Anyone got an idea of what's going on?
Cheers
Now, there is a red switch on the back of my PSU that changes the voltage to either 230v or 150v, obviously depends where you live, the states use 150v I believe. We changed it to 150v without really reading or thinking about it, we turned the power switch on and there was a loud pop, a spark, the fusebox in my garage flipped down and there was the smell of an electrical fire.
Now, do 550w PSU's have a fuse? Like a plug? or is it fried and I need a new one? Have I completely ballsed up all my components or will I be okay considering nothing was booting up, meaning it wasn't all together. Smoke ONLY emitted from the PSU, no where else in the rig.