burned pins on psu/mobo connection

[MadMax08]

It's a little bit of a long story, so I won't bore you with too many details.

They had to shut our power off at school for maintenance, and when they turned it back on, my computer and monitor were still plugged in, resulting with an LCD that doesn't work anymore, and some fried pins on my psu-motherboard connection. everything seem to be operating as it should, except when I turn my computer on, my monitor says "no signal" until I turn it off and on again. It's not too much of a hassle, but my concern is the life of my psu and/or motherboard; should I be replacing either one of them?

Thanks for your help!

[Rick]

Burned pins ?
That should not have happened with a power outage
It sounds more like the connector was loose

A power spike that would cause the pins to burn should have fried the whole system

What else if anything is cooked ?

The monitor sounds like it needs to be reset
Again a power spike
May have fried the contacts in the switch

Some very strange things are happening here
What else is/was cooked by this power spike ? other than your system?
Were other units damaged ?

[MadMax08]

It appears that all that was damaged were the pins on the power to the motherboard, and the corresponding pins on the motherboard itself. (3 or 4 of them) My computer was the only casualty. None of my other roommates had any issues, and my xbox, tv, and stereo are all fine

[saphalline]

Burned power pins aren't like burned toast - you can't just toss it aside and ignore the problem. I generally think something bad happened and that you are likely to see strange problems with your system as time goes on. Of course, it does matter a bit which pins got burned in relation to the time frame involved, but the mere fact that any of them got burned suggests to me that the hardware should be replaced.

Likewise, how do you know that similar power junctions inside your XBox and TV are not also burned? It's not standard practice to open up these devices like a PC. They could in fact have burned pins as well and you just don't know about them.

If it's working fine for now, use it but with extra precautions (like constant data back-ups). However, I also urge you to start saving up now for new hardware. Sooner or later, burned hardware will die faster than non-burned hardware. Best to be prepared if you care at all about the rest of your system, PSU and mobo aside.

[alternate]

that's why i have a 1200 VA (~ 750 W) UPS (uninterruptible power supply) with surge and opposite-of-surge protection.

test your monitor with one of your roomates' computers to see if there are any problems with that. it might just be a problem with something inside the computer chasis.