cannot "hotwire" psu

daven1986 · 13 May 2006 at 19:14

I don't know what im doing wrong. I connected the green wire and the black wire with a piece of fan wire, and my main 120mm psu fan spins for 1/2 a second then stops. My psu is the hiper 580W and i am trying to leak test my system

do i have to connect up the motherboard (i hope not).

thanks

daven

R B Customs · 13 May 2006 at 19:24

you are leaving the connection on the teminals arnt you ?

daven1986 · 13 May 2006 at 20:01

Joe42 · 13 May 2006 at 22:19

daven1986 said:
My psu is the hiper 580W

Says it all really.
It may need a load to power up, or to regulate the voltages correctly, and its shutting down because it can't keep the rails within spec.
A decent psu could keep the rails in spec without a load.

daven1986 · 13 May 2006 at 22:25

some enermax's fail to "hotwire" so don't go badmouthing my psu. i found an old psu that works fine.

thanks

daven

welshtom · 13 May 2006 at 22:28

he's not, hes actually saying it might be too good to be able to hotwire :confused:

But they do hotwire fine, mine does anyway

Joe42 · 13 May 2006 at 22:33

Nahh, i was saying its bad.
You'll be badmouthing it aswell when it goes pop...

It may work with just a fan attached or something, worth a try if you have one. I'll bet all it needs is a small load.

welshtom · 13 May 2006 at 22:36

i see.

and i thought it was a good comment tut

Joe42 · 13 May 2006 at 22:44

It was. I told him what the problem was and how to fix it, assuming i'm correct.

I also told him he had a rubbish psu and it may well blow up like most of them seem to in one way or another. Shame really.

A.N.Other · 14 May 2006 at 15:40

They are good PSUs. Mine is good anyway and all the ones in PCs I've built :confused:

. Never had a problem myself.

Anyway, as above, it's probably that you need more load on the PSU that just one fan for it to work properly. A lot of PSUs do this.

Cyanide · 14 May 2006 at 16:06

A.N.Other said:
They are good PSUs. Mine is good anyway and all the ones in PCs I've built . Never had a problem myself.

Ditto. It would seem that a few went wrong and then suddenly they're all bad PSU's that'll explode whenever they feel like it :rolleyes:

james.miller · 14 May 2006 at 16:13

the only constant in all that is bad psu's are the q-tecs. every manufacturer has there problems at one time or another, except x-pro.

To this day, ive only ever heard of one single faulty x-pro since they were introduced, which is nothing short of amazing for a psu.

Cyanide · 14 May 2006 at 16:21

james.miller said:
the only constant in all that is bad psu's are the *-****. every manufacturer has there problems at one time or another, except x-pro.

Don't swear!

I had one in one of my first PC's, I believe it came with the case. I've only had 2 pieces of hardware go wrong on me - a Maxtor HDD after 2 years and one of those damned things the first time I turned it on

Mr. Brightside · 14 May 2006 at 17:36

james.miller said:
To this day, ive only ever heard of one single faulty x-pro since they were introduced, which is nothing short of amazing for a psu.

Was that mine? If not you can add another to the list. I had an X-Pro 400w. One day the voltage regs blew on my motherboard (second time that happened with that mobo - that was a replacement board). The motherboard took out the X-Pro with it.

You can argue both ways really. The first time it happened I was using an Antec Trueblue 480w and it came out completely unharmed. So although the X-Pro didn't cause it, it was taken out by it when the Antec wasn't. And yes all other condititions were identical, right down to the pattern of the scorch marks on the back of the mobo, and the flux oozing out of the joints of the voltage regs to the board.

I've since gone back to using the Antec in my main rig, but am quite happily using the replacement X-Pro I got in my server so don't get me wrong I do trust it.

oceaness · 15 May 2006 at 11:55

daven1986 said:
I don't know what im doing wrong. I connected the green wire and the black wire with a piece of fan wire, and my main 120mm psu fan spins for 1/2 a second then stops. My psu is the hiper 580W and i am trying to leak test my system do i have to connect up the motherboard (i hope not).

thanks

daven

I have the Hiper 580 Type-R and I have the same problem. It seems they don't hotwire so I grabbed an old 200 watt thing that was in a PC I aquired after someone threw it in a dump (Motherboard, PSU, P3 CPU in a case). Hotwired and leaktested with that

.

Dunno if people have problems with their Hiper's but mines just lovely and maintains pretty damn accurate voltage, oh and it doesn't make any noise

daven1986 · 15 May 2006 at 12:54

hiper psus are very nice, look good and are very quiet.

is it ok to put a cd-rom and 3 hard drives on 1 cable from the psu?

thanks

daven