This just happened. I tried to install my new wireless adapter because the onboard was very bad at receiving a good connection. When I finally got the USB to work, I unplugged the onboard, leaving it on my grapich card, touching it. When I turned on my PC, it turned off and it started to smell. I'm guessing from the power supply. Did I really just do what I think I did - fry my whole computer system by letting the wireless adapter touch the graphic card?
If so, might I be able to swap out the PSU, or salvage some of the other components?

Thank you for the help.

Best regards, Mathias

What part of the adapter was touching what part of the graphics card?

Electrical burn smell? probably fried gpu thou if its coining from psu maybe psu died.
Its quite rare to fry everything, so you current task should be isolating the smell and testing that hardware first.

The bottom part of the adapter was touching the top of the grapich card. My PSU is smelling burned as well and nothing happens at all when I try to turn on the computer. It's a Seasonic, do you know if their warranty is covering something like this? Or would that be on me?

You know what, it was the GPU I think. I took it out and tried to turn on the computer and now it starts. The gpu is as good as dead then?
I tried to plugin the gpu again, and the fans started spinning, then it turned off trying to restart over and over without the gpu seeming to work once agian.

This post was edited by LazyDazy on Oct 22 2018 10:44am

More then likely, really depends on what you fried on it.
A reputable tech could fix it however costs may not make it worth your time.
Really comes down to the amount of damage and to what.

Probably best off just replacing it at this point now.

What a bummer. Well that taught me a lesson!
Thanks for the help

That sucks.