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[Tech Support] Might've Fried My Mobo

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So I've got a ASUS Rampage Gene III(X58 based)and a low-level Thermaltake PSU(550w).I was leaving town for a couple of days for family thing and decided to unplug the power cord from rig.So a couple minutes before I had shut off all the lights in my room and had closed the curtains and had also shut off the rig through Windows 10 but me deciding to unplug it in the dark,I started groping around the PSU part looking for the switch,finding something and flipping it.Only to see a blue spark and realize that I switched the volt thing from 230 to 110.Im currently at work but I'll be heading back home instead of the trip to diagnose.
TLDR:What could all have died?GPU?CPU?Mobo?RAM!?
~Send Help~ :(
 
Should be only the power supply, I have made the same mistake in the past
 
Hopefully just the PSU. Impossible to tell from just this, but it should be just the PSU. What PSU was it? The cheaper the higher the chance other stuff might have gone as well.
 
Hopefully just the PSU. Impossible to tell from just this, but it should be just the PSU. What PSU was it? The cheaper the higher the chance other stuff might have gone as well.
It was a cheap PSU. Genuinely cheap,no ratings etc.
 
It was a cheap PSU. Genuinely cheap,no ratings etc.
Then there is actually a chance that it might have taken other stuff with it as well. Only getting a replacement will be able to tell. Cheap PSU's generally have very little to no protection against stuff like this, so I hope for your sake it's just the PSU.
 
I figured I owed everyone a update so here;my PC is running fine with a older 80+ series PSU and everything is stable.
Thanks for all the help.
 
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