evga 1300w G2 DOA again!

[Arcane]

So...all in all one of those problems i'm totally stumped with. I bought an evga supernova 1300 G2 to replace my ageing Enermax Evo 1250. The enermax is still fine but I fancied something totally modular and it was on special at OCUK that week. All was fine for a couple of months until it went bang one afternoon whilst in the middle of a gaming session.

Googling it I realised mine was part of a faulty batch that'd been recalled. I contacted evga and started an RMA. a new unit arrived which I fitted...Nothing. No lights on the motherboard. Checked cabling, nothing. I put a new fuse in the kettle lead, still nothing. I then tried the kettle lead from the Enermax, again dead.

Started another RMA and received another unit on Friday, I'd asked them to send a complete set of cables (more to see if that could rule them out?) but only got the bare unit in a box. Plugged this one in, loud pop and all the ground floor lights went out! New fuse, same thing. Plugged the Enermax back in and all working ok.

So now i'm totally stumped? Have I just had incredibly bad luck, am I an idiot or is something else at fault? I think it must be something cabling wise?

Thanks in advance.

 

[pastymuncher]

Sounds like something other than the psu is at fault to me. It's highly unlikley that you would recieve two faulty replacements. Did you try the Enermax in your pc to see if it all still works? Have you tried a different electricity socket?

Out of curiosity, where did you have to RMA the EVGA to?

 

[Arcane]

That's what I thought, couldn't be two faulty ones? I'm wondering if when the original went bang that it took the cables with it and they're somehow blowing the new ones when they're connected to the PSU. wished they'd given me new ones.

The Enermax is back in the PC now and is working fine, I was using it whilst the RMA was happening and it's been back in since the latest one didn't work on Friday.

I've tried 2 different kettle leads, the evga one and the Enermax one, new fuses and different wall sockets. I am totally stumped?

RMA is to Munich, via UPS.