power supply/ mobo problem

porushinobu

porushinobu

porushinobu

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so this saturday, I ordered my replacement PSU and thought to myself.
"My pc is still running a game or two won't hurt"

Hah!!! how wrong was I. During an hour of fun in CSS I suddenly saw no response from my keyboard, mouse and monitor, and my friend on skype was mysteriously absent also.

I had a look and appears to be an issue at the 4 pin power cable to my mobo. seems a surge had gone through (or atleast that my theory) which had melted the connector to the socket on my mobo.

my question is this: have you guys had this issue before and if so, was it the mobo or the PSU as I dont want to risk my shiny new psu on a bad mobo.

this connector is right next to my top most mobo heat sink near the CPU.

Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard Rev1.1
Storm 700W PSU
12GB DDR3 Ram
MSI R9 270X
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
AMD 8 core PSU ( might be a FX 8150 black edition off the top of my head.



P.S. I am glad its not that damned GPU again, had to RMA it twice so far lol.
 
It'll be the super cheap budget power supply which would have had badly fitted plugs which melted the socket.

When a 700w PSU costs £20 you need to avoid it...like syphilis..

A poor power supply can kill other components - never scrimp on quality.
 
ExRayTed said:
It'll be the super cheap budget power supply which would have had badly fitted plugs which melted the socket.

When a 700w PSU costs £20 you need to avoid it...like syphilis..

A poor power supply can kill other components - never scrimp on quality.
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Lesson learned, I just hope the mobo is salvageable when my platinum superflower 1KW psu arrives

lol and I was replacing it preemptively. Not so preemptive now though :( all it had to do was last 5 more days XD
 
If you're fortunate the 12v socket will have survived. As you say though, lesson learnt.

If I had a quid for every piece of hardware I broke through either ignorance or stupidity when I got started, I'd have..well...a few quid :D
 
ExRayTed said:
If you're fortunate the 12v socket will have survived. As you say though, lesson learnt.

If I had a quid for every piece of hardware I broke through either ignorance or stupidity when I got started, I'd have..well...a few quid :D
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well the psu was second hand. so thats another lesson well learnt a while ago. Also its a friend I will never speak to again, except maybe to leave burning bags of ex.... nevermind

lol
 
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