The 'Hiper-Explosive' Club

I had a Hiper Type-R 580W blue LED modular PSU back in 2007 when I built my gaming machine. After about 1mths use, it just popped one day. And I hadnt even noticed it was the PSU that blew. All I remember was the PC going off along with all other eletricals. It tripped the fuse box so I turned it on and it tripped again.

Eventually I got my electricity back on. However, it wasnt until the next two days when I went to turn on my gaming machine that it wouldnt power on. Que an hour of fault finding to realise it was the PSU...I thought this is all i need lol...and to top it off...it was the Xmas/New Year period so I couldnt RMA it until after New Years...

Anyway, Hiper stopped making the PSU so I had to get a Thermaltake 700W modular PSU instead and hasnt let me down since...but I loved that Hiper PSU cos of the shiny blue it possessed :D

I have another Hiper PSU which is the Type-M 580W.

But never mind...:D
 
Hi I had 2 425w Hiper PSU's in my last rig bought in 2005, one saturday morning a few months after being built, the computer turned off and never came back on, PSU had gone and taken everything but the hard drive and optical drives with it, familiar blue smoke when trying to power up or putting a cable in every so often.

RMA'd everything and eventually got everything going again but the hard drive was never great after that, often buggering installations, late 2006 early 2007 the PSU was acting weird again making noises etc before one time it was making grinding noises, immediately I turned it off, upon booting back up the hard drive was utterly screwed and the psu temperamental, replaced both with other brands and has worked since, although has got much of a run in the last 18 months.

Never again Hiper!
 
Last night my Hiper Type R 580w modular died on me. Still lights up and the fan spins at about 5rpm (so slow that you can watch the blades as they spin) but it's terminal. Just off to my local pc shop to borrow a test psu so I can find out if it took anything down with it. Let's hope not
 
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I've just received my replacement PSU but won't get it in my system until tomorrow night.

Fingers crossed it didn't take anything else with it when it blew.

Has anyone tried to claim for burnt out parts from Hiper due to faulty PSU's?

Scott
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Yes. When mine blew it took out a 2 week old DFI mobo with it. Hiper basically told me to take a running jump!! Terrible customer service.

All of you who are using replacement Hipers. Did'nt you learn anything from the first going bang? If you did'nt lose any other components the first time you were lucky. It is madness to chance it a second time.
 
My hiper 580 type R failed tonight (around 2 years old), had a power cut (electric key went to emergency) went to start the PC up & nothing, green light on on the mobo & red light on on the PSU switch but no power to power it up.

Luckily i have a VX 450 in a spare PC & praise the lord the PC powered up, all other componants are fine.

Thinking of getting a Corsair TX 650 to replace it with.
Anyone else have a suggestion on what PSU i should get?

Spec
E6600 @ 3.0
4850 (maybe going crossfire soon as they are so cheap now)
4 gb pc6400
2 x DVD-RW
3 x HDD
 
+1 for the club, my Hiper HPU-4M530 530w is suffering from fan failure at 7 months old. Still works, but... sounds like a car that doesn't start :(
Seeing as their repair centre is in the Netherlands, this'll be going to the tip.
 
Hi guys, just got pointed this way from another thread.

My old PSU before my seasonic m12 was a 730w modular hiper, remember the cool silver one with the matrix style plugs underneath? Turned it on one day about a month after buying it (new for around £75) and two capacitors popped. Luckily it didnt kill anything including my brand new x1950 :P
 
Well it looks like I am the latest victim of the "Hiper Explosive Club", 32 months into the 3yr RTB

Sunday afternoon mrs happily surfing away, started buzzing first, thought a hair was caught in the exhaust fan, duely cleaned it all out kept buzzin......

Then big blue flash, massive pop and a couple of flames out of the exhaust fan.

So I go about starting the RMA process, I hit Hipers site, hit the RMA link, 404 not Found error. Mail address's and phone numbers on the site, so sent a mail to them.

No Reply or acknowledgement. I get home from work and using the number further up int he thread set about calling the RMA line, "the person at this extension is not available", phoned main number thinking that they may have changed numbers, try 4 for warranties, no-one available, try 2 for switchboard, no-one available, only one left to try is Sales (Im thinking that they cant not answer this one) No answer.

So Im getting pretty hacked off now, a thought dawns on me and into Google I type "Hiper Bust"

Surprise Surprise they went bust at the beginning of August, I was ready to approach Trading standards with the whole thread here due to the sheer amount of their PSU's going pop, I read somewhere about a 14% failure rate on the Hiper Type R Models!!!!

Just had to spend another £70 :(
 
Hiper have gone bust? Damn!

The power supply I purchased in 2006 fried itself and was replaced in 2008. The replacement died last weekend (luckily no flames as it happened when I'd left my computer on and gone to bed). I was hoping they'd tell me that my replacement PSU came with a 3 year warranty as well and agree to exchange it - guess it's not to be!

It's a pity this has happened, even though these power supplies had a high failure rate I believe that only this one product suffered the problem, and they were certainly helpful when my first PSU blew.
 
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My 580 is still up and running (Fingers Crossed).
when I first plugged it in over 2 years ago, it gave off a pop sound and I could smell burning, but everything worked fine...?
More recently, it fried my Floppy drive and the power connector between the psu and drive, but a new drive and a new cable and all is working still??
 
i got a type r 580w had probs with random power off etc now and then wont boot etc

when i took pc apart all was fine, but the 4pin mobo header connector socket on the psu was loose and not being able to find recipt etc was stuffed (the fitting only sorta moved like half a mm but shorted inside the thing) on about the female socket btw

so it still works lol never killed anything

but wouldnt put it back in a pc


edit was years ago think i got a 7600gt at the time,, had the corsair 520 since the came out now and still going fine
 
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