What's messing with your Groove?

[Khendraja'aro]

You might want to look for failed capacitors on the motherboard - they're usually the first elements to fail, and replacing them can bring back a dead motherboard sometimes. It's relatively easy to do, and costs only a fraction of what a new motherboard would (esp. if that would require a new CPU). Of course, if the fault is somewhere else, this will not work, but it is worth a shot, I think.

Yeah, that's what I thought as well. Didn't find any telltale signs for failed capacitors, though, so I had to replace it entirely.

Then again, it was time for an upgrade anyway but I had wanted to wait for the new generation of Intel CPUs. But going from an i5-2500K to an i5-4590 isn't bad either.

That is how I fixed an external HD power supply for a few cents instead of buying a €50 replacement (it was some rare type that couldn't be replaced by a generic one). Well, I say I fixed it, but it was a colleague who could tell from a quick glance that the capacitor was blown. According to him it's one of the most common ways electronics fail so it's definitely worth a try!

Nice! But the innards of a PSU are something I myself would only touch if I really knew what I was doing. Because they can be literally lethal if you're doing it wrong.