Friday night head scratcher help :(

Yep, hopefully tomorrow I'll get it confirmed that the PSU is on its last legs so I can sort out a replacement and get the ball rolling for RMA.

The irony is, in the last few weeks I'd been thinking to my self "Might be a good idea to buy some low end spares for testing if something dies, like a cheap GPU, PSU and memory" :p
 
Memory not so much but PSU and GPU are nice to have around. Sadly I have no backup PSU.

Sock monsters are not a problem All my socks are same.. same brand.. same colour... buy 8 pair at a time. Amazingly I don't seem to loose any socks now.
 
gbgt2 said:
This does not help you at all but I rebuilt my PC at the weekend - I turn on the PSU and the board lights up fine, then I press the power button on the front of the case and absolutely nothing happens .. panic time! It turned out I had managed to plug the CPU power cable in upside down on the motherboard end .. I thought it was a bit difficult to plug in :D
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Had a similar situation last year, moved into a new case, hit the power - nothing, promptly stressed out for an hour before realising it helps to plug the EPS cable in :p

doyll said:
Being able to smile after what the gremlins have put you through is a good sign indeed.
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Space Monkey said:
I swear the PC gremlins are in league with the sock monsters! True story :p:D

Glad it's coming alone PGI :)
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Yep, its all starting to come together now, not enough juice to power up until i've cycled it 10-15 times then once its up randomly dropping out. Makes a little more sense now the red mist has cleared. Prior to this I'd only ever associated a PSU failure with being 100% dead, as in jump it and nothing happens.
 
I'll try have a better look with a torch when I take it out later tonight, iirc looking through the fan doesn't show much due to the make up of the unit and of course some dust thats in it.

The more I read about the symptoms of a bad PSU cap the more I can relate.

The guy at the local store says he will test the unit and should only take a few mins, any ideas as to what exactly he will do? i.e. just plug it into another machine or use some sort of load bank?
 
pgi947 said:
The guy at the local store says he will test the unit and should only take a few mins, any ideas as to what exactly he will do? i.e. just plug it into another machine or use some sort of load bank?
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Most places will just short it out and see if it works.

They don't have the money of use to buy a PSU load tester.
 
Plus I already told him I've shorted it out and it fires up, if they don't have a load tester hopefully they have a semi-powerful machine floating about they can hook it up to.

I would normally open it up to have a look my self but not keen on voiding £190 worth of warranty.
 
Already planned ;)

Though I'm not sure how much weight a statement from an independent store will carry with Corsair. Saying that Corsair RMA is usually a great experience.

Going to take the PSU out just shortly, will try snap some pics of the insides.
 
Just as a caution, I know for a fact there is some dust inside, so view with caution as it might look uber gross all zoomed in etc... :D
 
pgi947 said:
No, they are sitting in amongst the dust pointing and laughing at me :p
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Cap laughing :p:D
 
I'll leave that one to a photoshop wizard, or for that matter someone with a functioning computer that can actually run photoshop!

Quite like the look of the Silverstone Strider 1200W as a replacement, £160, 100A single 12v rail, dual 8 pin EPS, have to look about to see what warranty they offer though.
 
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