Pop goes the power supply

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I think my psu has bit the bullet sob sob.

It's a corsair hx 650 w and when I turned on my pc today it tripped the main house power socket fuse box. Reset the fuse box and pressed power and no lights nothing.

It doesn't smell of burning and can't see anything blown on the motherboard or psu.

Changed the fuse on the plug so it's not that.

I've had the build running for months since I upgraded in august.

Asus GeForce GTX 670 DirectCU II OC Gamer 2048MB
Intel Core i5-4670K 3.40GHz (Haswell)
Samsung 250GB SSD 840 SATA
Gigabyte Z87-D3HP Intel Z87
Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB SATA
Arctic F12 PWM Case Fan - 120mm

Running all that I can't see it's a psu problem as I should have enough juice.

One strange thing is I usually unplug my power surge sockets at night. I did leave them on the other day and my pc wouldn't post.

Left it off for five minutes and then turned it back on. The pc said my bios was corrupted and would restore.

Wonder if I am just unlucky and my house had some crazy power surge and that's what's caused my psu to fail.

Thinking of replacing it with a SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W from here but would that be overkill for my needs.

Just hoping nothing else has been taken out.
 
I honestly can't understand why these corsair psu's are failing now when they've already proved stable.

However, I'm with Girmely on this, the Seasonics or the Superflower Gold are the way atm ;)
 
To the OP.

RMA link is via here (HX 650 may still be in warranty with Corsair) Not transferable though if you bought it 2nd hand.

http://www.corsair.com/en-gb/support/warranty

It will have to be sent to Holland. Cost is £20-30 depending on how you send it off, though Corsair may pay postage if you complain enough (Corsair rep does post on here sometimes, not that often though)

Looking around, my gut feeling is they may not send you a direct replacement, but the equivalent CXM or RM model instead. TBH I'd contact them & ask what the replacement would be if you are able to & decide to RMA.
 
Ripshod said:
I honestly can't understand why these corsair psu's are failing now when they've already proved stable.

However, I'm with Girmely on this, the Seasonics or the Superflower Gold are the way atm ;)
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The AX series and CX series have different internals to their original release.

The newer AXi's are made by Flextronics, CX series by CWT rather than Seasonic who made the original cx400 and only some of the HX are Seasonic made.

To me it looks like Corsair established a few good PSU series with good internals and then recently have been increasing margins by switching to cheaper OEM's.
 
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Going to take a look and see if I check using the links above to see if the psu is blown.

Just looking through my documents it was only feb 2010 that I got my last rma from corsair.

I had a psu blow that took out my motherboard and ram.

Fingers crossed it's just the psu that's blown.

I really must stop hooking my pc up to lightning rods on the roof ;)
 
As I feared even a paper clip couldn't bring life back into the beast.

I've contacted corsair and will get another psu ordered.

Hoping nothing else has gone pop grrr.
 
Happy dance Happy dance the beast is alive.

Just got a new PSU today from overclockers and I got the Super flower 750 watt.

Everything is now running ok so looks like it was just the PSU that blew.

New psu is lovely and quiet. Has a nice white light emitting from it and the best part is that it has thumb screws to mount it.
 
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