Morning all.
It seems that a long standing problem that I have had with my PSU is fast getting worse.
Last week as a few of you will know I built a new i7 system. The only case component that made it out of my old C2D system was my BeQuiet Dark Power 650 Pro.
For the preceding couple of months, the system had several problems, but one of them was an annoying reluctance to boot up properley, which in retrospect could only have been the PSU, but the nature of the problem was very odd. Needless to say, that after 4 days of operation in the new i7 system, the problem has reared its ugly head again, and now I am going to have to order a new PSU today, but back to the problem...
Basically push the power button, and fans appear to power up (CPU, GPU etc), but its audibly quieter than it should be (PSU is fan down, so can't check if its spinning up, but suspect its not when the problem occurs), NO HDD or power LED lights come on, and monitor light just flashes - no display whatsoever.
Solution two months ago was just to press power button to power down, and start again - usually after one or two attempts it would crank up just fine (including an initial full speed blast from a component fan before returning to idle, which has always been a feature of my system, and assume its the PSU since it doesn't happen when the problem is present). However, now it can take dozens (emphasis on the plural there) of attempts. This morning I sat in front of my new i7 system pressing and depressing the power button for about 15 minutes before it finally sprang into life.
So, knackered obviously?! Has anyone seen this before?
The 650 is discontinued I notice that BeQuiet's latest models aren't as highly regarded as their predecessors. I really like the fully modular system on this PSU.
Typically I bought it from OcUK on 29th July last year, so its just outside its year warranty - but will give them a bell this morning and see what can be done.
PC components - such annoying items at times!
It seems that a long standing problem that I have had with my PSU is fast getting worse.
Last week as a few of you will know I built a new i7 system. The only case component that made it out of my old C2D system was my BeQuiet Dark Power 650 Pro.
For the preceding couple of months, the system had several problems, but one of them was an annoying reluctance to boot up properley, which in retrospect could only have been the PSU, but the nature of the problem was very odd. Needless to say, that after 4 days of operation in the new i7 system, the problem has reared its ugly head again, and now I am going to have to order a new PSU today, but back to the problem...
Basically push the power button, and fans appear to power up (CPU, GPU etc), but its audibly quieter than it should be (PSU is fan down, so can't check if its spinning up, but suspect its not when the problem occurs), NO HDD or power LED lights come on, and monitor light just flashes - no display whatsoever.
Solution two months ago was just to press power button to power down, and start again - usually after one or two attempts it would crank up just fine (including an initial full speed blast from a component fan before returning to idle, which has always been a feature of my system, and assume its the PSU since it doesn't happen when the problem is present). However, now it can take dozens (emphasis on the plural there) of attempts. This morning I sat in front of my new i7 system pressing and depressing the power button for about 15 minutes before it finally sprang into life.
So, knackered obviously?! Has anyone seen this before?
The 650 is discontinued I notice that BeQuiet's latest models aren't as highly regarded as their predecessors. I really like the fully modular system on this PSU.
Typically I bought it from OcUK on 29th July last year, so its just outside its year warranty - but will give them a bell this morning and see what can be done.
PC components - such annoying items at times!
