please help

[Mal X]

psu blew and i'm wondering why...it was an OCZ 650

i connected a new Kingston SSD and a Western Digital to another power cable, i was hoping to copy my other Hard drive over onto these two SSDs

the other hard drive is a Seagate hybrid, that was on an existing power cable.

so basically all i did was to connect 2 new hard drives on another power cable.

but the power cable had to come from a ``be quiet 1000w`` and the connection was slightly different and i'm not sure if the plug was the right way around.

the rig started and shut down immediately ...............psu dead

7970........i5 2500...........ASrock

 

[Sasahara]

If you mean you use the different manufacturers modular connections and force it in, you probably shorted something.

You need to use the modular cable that come with the PSU.

 

[Mal X]

yes, it was a force fit before the rig was turned on.......the OCZ cables went missing a year ago, so i had to use a spare BE-QUIET power cable

 

[pastymuncher]

Then you probably caused it to blow up. Making connections fit that are physically different by forcing them to fit is never a good idea, especially if they are not actually for the psu. Hopefullu it didn't take anything with it when it blew.