psu help please

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 18:59

i just bought a Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant Power Supply from oc , to run my server pc
i have 3 of the 5 bay icydock enclosures in the case (each dock takes 3 connecters from psu) , connected up 2 of them work fine got to the 3rd one when i plug it in i get a really high pitch noise

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 19:29

yeh you may maxed out that rail/the PSU possibly hence the whinening noise is the capacitors screaming

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 19:31

so add it to the other rail

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 19:34

ricsouthcott said:
so add it to the other rail

give it a try i guess cant get worse init? you got a clue about how many amps those things need?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:07

siumatfung said:
give it a try i guess cant get worse init? you got a clue about how many amps those things need?

no

i had OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 before and it was fine with the icydocks had to change it cause it was getting noisy tryed cleaning it didnt help

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:08

so erm did you try plugging it in another rail?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:29

need to get a connector to connect to the sata rail

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:38

oic hmm well dont all the plugs come out off one hole right>? or is it seperated into 4 different bundles?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:45

4 bundles

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 20:50

tbh do you really need 3 of these things?

my PSU cant handle more than 3 sata devices it only has 4 plugs lol

but when u plug in the third is that using all the plugs?

what the rest of your spec?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:09

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.80GHz Retail
Gigabyte M750SLi-DS4
2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 Dual Channel Kit
Asus GeForce EN7600GS Silent HTD 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express)

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:19

im intrigued by these icy boxes what do they actaully do?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:23

keep the drives cool , allow you to fit 5 drives in 3x5 1/4 bays , easy to remove from the front of case

xman01 · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:26

the tx is single rail, it should work
might be a short circuit somewhere

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:42

could it be the enclosure itself?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 21:57

nah its not the enclosures i tried them all sepertatly and the all work fine

siumatfung · 12 Jun 2009 at 22:03

any update on the power usage?

ricsouthcott · 12 Jun 2009 at 22:22

need to pull one out will do it tomorrow and let u know

ricsouthcott · 13 Jun 2009 at 12:04

update i tried it on the sata rail still makes the same high pitch noise , i pulled the icybox out and theres no writing on it that says how much power it uses