[Mental]

alright, so i was messing around with my old computer and i was trying to test out a fan to see if it worked so i got some wire and was getting ready to hook the fan up to a molex connector, and when i do all of a sudden theres a spark and the computer turns off. and now it wont turn back on. any ideas????

 

[Mental]

nevermind. i just reset the cmos and it booted back up. i thought i had done it before, but i forgot the psu was still plugged in

 

[zone]

Glad to hear that...
But for the future... you shouldn't test the fan this way.

What you should have done was turn off the computer, switch the PSU off then hook up the fan, switch the PSU on and restart the machine.

 

[Mental]

haha yea i know i usually dont do that. i just wasnt thinking