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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 4410323" data-attributes="member: 1316">As has been said, it's extremely unlikely that the power cable caused it. Power cables are very simple and hard to mess up, and most of the time when they are bad, they won't work at all. If you have a simple multimeter, you can easily test the cable.In fact, if any wires are crossed, the most likely place by far is your home's power outlet. (If you plugged the computer into a different outlet when it broke, you may want to spend the ~$20 to buy an outlet tester at a hardware store.)But more likely than that is that your power supply simply went bad. Maybe the timing is just a coincidence, or maybe between opening the computer up, moving it around, and perhaps some electrostatic discharge, you added the straw that broke the camel's back.Unfortunately, a bad power supply will often fry your motherboard or other components.</blockquote>