My pc caught fire today… can anyone help me figure out what went wrong based on this image?
My pc caught fire today… can anyone help me figure out what went wrong based on this image?
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None of us are really fire experts here, but fire prefers to move up so the fact that the lower area got melted the most makes me think the main fire was down there.
I don’t really know what was in that pile of cables though. Looks like maybe it was loops of cabling going to the HDDs?
So my guess is a SATA power cable shorted somewhere in the lower middle.
Your Diablotek power supply
As we can only guess: The cheap PSU that should have been called „Firestarter“
Maybe one of those cables that were where that hole is in the lower middle going to the six drives.
I would rule the fan out, the other cables are somewhat intact, drives do not necessarily use massive power or spin up if not all used at once so I would have to assume a SATA connector from the PSU to the drives. The other cables from PSU had no connections in the middle, although maybe still a possible culprit.
Wow, never seen it that bad before in all my years in computers. I would suspect the PSU as well Diablotek apparently has a history of catastrophic failure. They seem to not have the proper overload protections in place. I always recommend to my clients to Never cheap out on the Power Supply.
Your chinesium PSU started the fire, never cheap out on a power supply
Definitely that cheap PSU.
I’d be surprised if anything survived that.
Next time, buy a high quality PSU.
How many drives do you have? 😀 Wow ^^^
Anyway, as the others said, most probably an issue with the power supply. Please never buy cheap PSUs, they are in multiple ways (Safety, stability, performance) the most critical part of your PC.
You shorted the ps and no fail safe kicked in. The amps in the 12v rail kept building until it got hot enough to catch fire.
If you’re gonna cheap out on something, it should never be the PSU
Gotta be honest. I don’t recognize the name of the PSU. You have other name recognizable parts but not the PSU, so it’s probably that. The PSU itself could even be perfectly cromulent, but if they cheaped out on wiring quality to all the components and board, things could have melted then arced and ignited.
Overall look up the parts number of each component and try to see if you can find low star reviews mentioning fire. Mainline components would have had headlines, which again points to the PSU.
As others have pointed out, it’s probably the cheap PSU.
However, considering the big melty pile in the bottom center along with a LOT of wires/hardware going that way, did you by any chance have some sort of adapter (e.g. molex to gpu, molex to sata, etc) there as well? Because if you did, you may want to avoid those too. Those are usually weak points during a power surge, especially if they’re connected to components that require a lot of power (like a gpu).
Molex to sata, lose all your data
Shitty PSU. Never EVER cheap out on a PSU
That power supply looks like it could give the great wall power supply run for its life.
the fuck am i even suppose to see here
edit: nvm, that psu is prolly the culprit. NEVER cheap out on psus. people need to understand this
I see the problem here, not enough rgb
Never cheap out on PSUs.
Idk what started it but a proper PSU could have stopped it..and that is a reeaaally bad PSU
Power supply but from where the fire seemed to start it would seem it would be the cables themselves that shorted/melted and started the fire
This is why you never cheap out on a power supply
I was told not to cheap out on my PSU unit, this must be why
I’m a professional fire inspector.
Yes there was a fire here.
That goddamn cheap PSU is the problem….