Power supply failure, is the rest of my system ok?

eg8076 · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:14

This morning I woke up the RCD for all my plug sockets had tripped. I reset the RCD and thought nothing of it, until a couple of hours later when i tried the power up my new PC which I had just finished building the previous night. Disappointingly it would not power up, not even a click.

I did some testing and came to realise my brand new Corsair Tx750 V2 power supply had blown, which i guess had tripped the home RCD.

Now the power supply had only been connected to the mains for about 12 hours, and powered up for 3 of those hours, has anyone else had a previous experience of a power supply failing this quickly?

My real worry is that might the power supply have damaged any of the other components in my machine when it went bang?

I don't have another supply to test my components with until the faulty one is returned from the supplier, so this is really playing on my mind. I would like to think they have some type of surge protection build in to save from any collateral damage, but i am not holding my breath

stulid · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:15

Try a new kettle lead/fuse first.

Reaper 392 · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:25

its very unlikely that your PSU has taken any components with it being a corsair

eg8076 · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:26

Yeah i have done that, as I ran through a number of tests described on the Corsair support website, which included a test to isolate the power supply and put a jumper across two of the terminals to get it to power up on its own and got no response, the power supply was just dead.

eg8076 · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:27

Reaper 392 said:
its very unlikely that your PSU has taken any components with it being a corsair

Great thanks for the reassurance, i really hope you are right

stulid · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:27

eg8076 said:
Yeah i have done that, as I ran through a number of tests described on the Corsair support website, which included a test to isolate the power supply and put a jumper across two of the terminals to get it to power up on its own and got no response, the power supply was just dead.

Then RMA it either to the retailer or Corsair and see what happens with the new one. But your chances are good that it all works out fine in the end.

Serikiito · 29 Aug 2011 at 00:29

RMA the power supply. It's a good brand so I doubt it would have damaged your other components. You could always test your pc with another power supply if you have one spare?

eg8076 · 29 Aug 2011 at 01:31

Set the RMA in process with corsair and its been accepted, but I need to ship it to the Netherlands, and the post office want to charge over £30 for the privileged.
Found a couple of cheaper couriers, but am going to try and send it back the local retailer first.

Lelouch · 29 Aug 2011 at 01:55

You can use parcel2ship.co.uk I used it to book a courier (DHL) which cost me around £14 for 2 day shipping to Netherlands and with full tracking service included.

eg8076 · 30 Aug 2011 at 15:24

Good news the retailer is talking it back and covering the shipping. Now the up to 10 day wait for it to be returned. And to make it worse my 2xSaphire Toxic 6950 have shipped today from OCUK, and i have nothing to power them with