Will This Power Supply "FRY" My New Stuff?

[Punisher2021]

Hello All,
I have a quick question.I built a system for myself a while back and the wierdest thing happened. After I got all the components installed and everything was ready to go, I turned my pc on for the 1st time. When I did that, A flash of light came out of my case about 1 inch from my power button followed by "WHITE SMOKE". I freaked and quickly turned it off. I waited for 5 min, and turned it back on and it has been fine ever since.

So I am getting right now an Asus A7n8X deluxe mobo, Xp3200+.1gb pc3200 Dual DDr mem, and I want to make for sure that nothing happens to this.
I am still wondering what caused that? Could it be I have a bad power supply? I guess I have not really had any problems with it but I am wondering if it was the reason why I have that smoke and fire. A while back also, my system would just reboot. I could be listening to a mp3, playing a game or typing an e-mail and it would even do it some times 3 or 4 times in a row. It seems to have stopped that now also.

I guess what I am wanting to know is if there is a way to see if my Pwr Supply is bad or if you sounds like its bad. ITs a Turbo link 420W. Came with my case.

Anyways, hope to hear an answer back asap. Thanks guys.

P.S. Oh, I have a belkin 800Va battery back up with a battery at 100%

[marky mark]

i dont see why it the psu wouldnt be any good
i build machines with the same setup all the time and use the same cheap turbolink psus that come with the case
except their the 350 w version

[Punisher2021]

I was thinking that also but just wanted to make for sure on that. Thanks for the info Mark.

[marky mark]

i would have been freaking out too punisher if i saw white smoke
my first pc i ever built ended up in the same result
i powered on the machine without the cpu fan in and left the room
came back minutes later and it was smokin!!!

a word of advice with pcs
dont mess with it if it aint broke!!
youll save yourself alot of hairs turning grey

[Punisher2021]

Lol well acutally I build pcs all the time so I am no newbie by far. I built a few custom gaiming pcs for a several people at quake con last year and have built several for my friends in the past, and I had never run into in crappy problems like this before and wouldnt you know it, it happens to my pc. Lol murphys law I guess. Just wanted to make for sure this would never happen again?

just out of curiosity... Do you have any idea what would cause that crap?

[Naithin]

Heh, I have to admit, I am very, very, very, very surprised that the white smoke of death didn't result in.. well.. death for your pc.

Most newer bios' can monitor voltage output along the various rails, so you can check there to see if it is outputting excessively high one one of them, one to watch in particular would be the 12v rail, as that connects to CPU's these days, a slight fluctuation is ok - most el cheapo PSU's wont be spot on what they're sposed to be - but if you're getting more than a whole volt or two off what it should be - that wasn't intentionally overclocked and compensated for with extra cooling - then you might be looking at trouble, if it isn't burning out immediately, it'd certainly be causing additional wear over time.

IF your bios doesn't support voltage monitoring, there are I believe some free utils that can be ran from under windows even.

If yer system has been running fine though.. I really dunno.. Could've been just a freak thing that wont happen again, could be a bit of wiring caught between a contact and shearing off the protective layer, I dunno. I would watch for that if it was tho, an exposed wire touching it something on the mobo for instance could cause a systemwide boom. Maybe not a spectacular looking boom, but one with the same sort of effect. :P

Might pay to go lookin inside, just to be sure.