I left my computer on as I always do, about three weeks ago. When I woke up the next day, the screen was black and I could not get the desktop to appear I moved the mouse clicked a few keys, so I pressed the power button to get it to restart. When it came up it said Windows did not start successfully so I just chose the option to start normally. About half way through the windows loading process my comp restarted it self and went bak to the same screen about windows not starting successfully. I read this entire page and decided it might be a power failure and went ahead today and replaced my 300w PSU with a 350w PSU. The PSUs are as follows: NEW- Antec Basiq 350w Atx12v v2.01 OLD- Bestec Atx-300-12e 300w. Sadly, I cant get the computer on windows so I cant get too much more info regarding the specs of the computer I know a chunk of the info but not much. My question is, Did I perhaps do something wrong with the PSUs, maybe not compatible, or maybe theres something else wrong with a piece of hardware.
PS-When I intially took out the old PSU I opened it up and it looked like something has melted inside, there was this yellow dry looking compound not sure what it is but it was very dry and the board in the PSU was yellow so...
Thanks again and cant wait for your replies.