So my dad snags an Canon MG6120 all-in-one printer for about $70 at Fry's Electronics and and brings it home. I'm thrilled so I dismantle my old printer. Take out the power cord and USB cord. Move the printer and clean off the dust. Dad puts the new one in it's place and I go under the desk to retrieve the two cords. Remove the old power cord and start tracking the USB cord. Assume that one of them is the right one, I unplug it. Windows makes a device disconnect sound. I know it's not that one since the printer was already removed, no sound should occur. I plug it back and all of a sudden the PSU glows and then the PC shuts off. We smell something burning. Shit.
So we dismantle my PC and just leave it alone to cool down. Had dust on it so we blew it off. After a bit of cursing under his breath he opens the PC to find the burn on the bottom USB ports on the back panel. Weirdly enough, nothing was plugged into those ports... We removed the PSU and are assuming it's burned out but we'll test it later, definitely need a new motherboard though. Going to need one that's AM2/AM2+ with DDR2 memory and a DVI port. Any inexpensive one will do. My old one was top quality but considering my dad will have to pay for a new one and possibly a new PSU I'll settle with anything.
It's also my fault. I have a nasty habit of not letting my computer shutdown very often, just sleep. Could have been a coincidence or my abuse that it burned out, dunno. Nothing was bein overclocked either.
Hate myself now.
So we dismantle my PC and just leave it alone to cool down. Had dust on it so we blew it off. After a bit of cursing under his breath he opens the PC to find the burn on the bottom USB ports on the back panel. Weirdly enough, nothing was plugged into those ports... We removed the PSU and are assuming it's burned out but we'll test it later, definitely need a new motherboard though. Going to need one that's AM2/AM2+ with DDR2 memory and a DVI port. Any inexpensive one will do. My old one was top quality but considering my dad will have to pay for a new one and possibly a new PSU I'll settle with anything.
It's also my fault. I have a nasty habit of not letting my computer shutdown very often, just sleep. Could have been a coincidence or my abuse that it burned out, dunno. Nothing was bein overclocked either.
Hate myself now.
