Power supply woes

Nitrams64

Nitrams64

Nitrams64

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My pc decided not to wake up monday morning.Looking inside vsb led was not lit and pressing power button did nothing.I took out psu and tried it in my media centre and it worked without issue, so i stripped everything out cleaned and looked for shorts thinking psu is fine.Still nothing after a few hours removed psu out of media centre and it works fine sytem boots all ok.

So i have borrowed a PSU Tester and it tells me there is no faults voltages stable only 5vsb reading 5v to 5.3v.
Does anyone know why psu ok in media centre(AMD X2 system) and won't work in Q6600 system.
 
As above took psu out of my media centre and put it in dead system.
VSB light is on and system boots no problem so board is fine.

PSU from media centre works in both systems amd and intel based.
PSU from Intel system no VSB led won't boot but works fine in AMD sytem
 
Its a hiper 580 iv'e just tried it again still no joy.It may be that intel sytem needs vsb and amd doesn't but im just guessing.
 
hmm, never heard of them, a quick look on google and i cant seem to find anyone selling themappart from the bay and even thenthey are dirt cheap, leading me to beleive they're not a quality psu, but if its working on another system i cant see any reason as to why its not working on the other pc, how long was the pc working for until it randomly stopped working??
 
Grimley said:
ahh - the infamous Hiper 580. :D

Have a read of this.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17694588

I'd replace it quick if I were you. ;)
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I hadn't read it at all would have pulled it out years ago if i'd seen it.Thanks for the link luckily everything is working with other psu,have yet to try 6950 in the system as the psu is only a 430 watt.
The system did not go off while running just would not start following morning.
Have ordered a xfx 750 from OC will be here wed.
 
Its usually a fault in +5 V standby line its easy to fix in the hiper psu.
I can tell you how to fix it if your interested.
 
wentalong said:
hmm, never heard of them, a quick look on google and i cant seem to find anyone selling themappart from the bay and even thenthey are dirt cheap, leading me to beleive they're not a quality psu, but if its working on another system i cant see any reason as to why its not working on the other pc, how long was the pc working for until it randomly stopped working??
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They were quoted as good psu with good reviews when i bought it and it wasn't cheap though maybe they have made em on the cheap.
 
Nitrams64 said:
They were quoted as good psu with good reviews when i bought it and it wasn't cheap though maybe they have made em on the cheap.
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just replace it with something better branded, like

this for he bare minimum:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-045-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

this for some headroom for potentially another 6950:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-202-CM&tool=5

or this for modular:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-XF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=

most likely stulid will reccommend something else for a crossfire psu as a 650watt psu would be fine,
 
My first hiper psu went bang it took out the motherboard & graphic card.

The second one nearly burnt down my workshop:mad:

Just unlucky I suppose, now using various modular BeQuiet psu's from 500w up to 800w, can't fault them.

BUT, if my memory is correct, there is a thread on this forum & forumite 'exhumedye' had a hiper psu catch fire.
 
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Back up and running with the xfx 750 that came from oc.
6950 and all other hardware working ok so i think iv'e been lucky compared to some with the hiper psu.
Thanks to all for help and info.
 
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