Just not fair - Dead Computer :(

mrk said:
It's an OCZ PSU, mine died in almost exactly the same way but while I was asleep and I woke up to the smell of burning components!

It killed the mobo (A UD3-P so not exactly the easiest of boards to kill!!) and I presume my Q9550 too which cost me an arm and a leg died too.

Buy a new PSU, one from corsair perhaps, avoid OCZ. Yes there are good ones but no point chancing it again with such high spec hardware. When a PSU goes it should take only itself, not other components.

Unfortunately for me, OCZ would not cover the cost of anything else, their policy only covers the PSU which I thought was rubbish, they would only replace the PSU so I had to fork out and ended up upgrading mobo, CPU and RAM and bought a new PSU.

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I had the same PSU as you BTW.
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Off topic, but it doesn't matter if their policy covers it or not - you need to take the retailer to small claims court (as it's them your contract is with) if they won't play ball.

If their product directly caused your part to fail through malfunction, they're liable.
 
mattyprice4004 said:
Off topic, but it doesn't matter if their policy covers it or not - you need to take the retailer to small claims court (as it's them your contract is with) if they won't play ball.

If their product directly caused your part to fail through malfunction, they're liable.
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For the sake of £300 odd I did not think it was worth the long drawn out process of going through small claims. They will also spend as long as they can "Investigating" the problem.
 
Neil79 said:
£750... :eek::p
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Where did 750 come from? :p

I knocked it on the chin and vowed not to buy OCZ again and went back to what I know best, Corsair :p I kind of thought of it as an upgrade really as I bought much better mobo/cpu and RAM and sold my old RAM for some ££ too as well as selling the replacement PSU as new & sealed.

Selling the old CPU and Mobo together would have gotten me about £150 so really I'm not missing out on that much lost money, just lots of lost time faffing around rebuilding the PC.

And what a PC it has become =]
 
similair thing happend to me last week , i traced it and hoped it was the power supply...and it was , had to reset the cmos ( altho i uninstalled everything before any hows .. ) good job i didnt listen to the missus as she said oh just get one of those imac with everythin built inn :eek: :p so £34 for power supply instead of £1000+ :)
 
£34 for a power supply?

You should spend decent money on a high quality PSU at all times!
 
Well, at least your motherboard didn't decide to spontaneously combust, nearly trashing 2 grands worth of parts and a custom modded case :(

Gave me quite a start. And stopped me buying MSi motherboards again!

Edit: and if you want a cheap psu I might be chucking a 750w Coolermaster (I think) on the mm at the weekend :)
 
gettothechopper said:
hope you get it fixed soon neil - had the pleasure of murdering you repeatedly on BC2 many a time and have yet to had the pleasure on BF3 !
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Not had much chance at all, not been my month... :(

mrk said:
£34 for a power supply?

You should spend decent money on a high quality PSU at all times!
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£34?

Looks at price on his order form

£42 and i phoned up overclockers uk before I ordered the system and they said it would be just fine. Even reviews on websites gave it a high ranking!........ Oooops Sorry Mrk you were talking to someone else lol :D

However
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-046-OC

Out of stock Item Unavailable, NICE :(

I've just also just realized, I've not put the UK power cable from wall socket to psu in the RMA box as I left the american power cable still in the box. Though i'd let them know, been under a lot of stress and health problems today and I've just remembered now. Damn it :(
 
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According to the Delivery tracking it arrived at OCUK, however nothing has appeared in my RMA account area history and no email from ocuk to say it was received and being tested. Any idea how long it usually takes? :)
 
Devrij said:
Easiest thing to do is just unplug the atx cable from your mobo, jump start your PSU with a paperclip and see if it'll power a fan off a molex connector. If not, bad PSU.
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Although that will prove it's a faulty PSU if the fan doesn't move, don;t assume that it's fine if it does.

My PSU would still run a fan when not plugged into the mobo but if you did it would just try and boot up for a few seconds.

Upshot BOTH the PSU and the mobo was FUBAR as I discovered when I replaced the mobo and it was doing the same thing.

Think the PSU took the MOBO out or vica versa.
 
Greebo..

My psu would only power a fan and itself for about half a second before shutting itself off :D.

I think the fan my moved about half a cm :D
 
Neil79 said:
POWER SUPPLY!!

Plugged cable GREEN / BLACK on main connection as per instructions
Plugged in a Fan into molex connection

Flicked the switch, The psu fan moved and the fan moved slightly then straight away instant off. The fans probably moved about a cm :p

What bugs me is people always say " NEVER BUY UNBRANDED " Always make sure you buy such and such. Well i had a case psu that lasted 4 years and a qtech that lasted 5, both branded psu's that i've ever purchased have died shortly after :(
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sorry for your bad luck dude, was the disabled registration a new thing?
 
:D:D:D:D:D


The product CA-046-OC on ***** has been replaced, this will be sent on a new order with order number ****

This will be despatched as soon as possible, subject to stock availability.

It was FAULTY :eek:

However as I did not want another OCZ because of the issues with that brand of power supply I wanted something different, so they are sending me a CORSAIR 600W instead for tomorrow..

THANKS OCUK, WIN! :cool::cool:
 
mrk said:
For the sake of £300 odd I did not think it was worth the long drawn out process of going through small claims. They will also spend as long as they can "Investigating" the problem.
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I've been to the point of appearing in court against a UK retailer, until they settled with me privately.

Really not as bad as you think :)
 
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