I am at a loss.
This past month, I built a new PC. The build was as follows:
So, I set to work investigating. (After resisting the very strong urge to punch a wall or ten. >.>) Thinking it might be the Power Switch, I tried jumping the pins from the MoBo directly, to no effect. (Although I might not have been doing it right.) Next step was to test the PSU itself. I tried the paperclip test with the PSU plugged in only to a fan, and even that wouldn't work. So, the PSU was starting to seem the culprit. The final nail in its coffin was when I pulled an old 500W PSU from an old PC and plugged it in, and the PC booted up just fine. The Corsair PSU got sent back for a refund, and I went ahead and ordered a new PSU (as some further research revealed this seemingly happened frequently with this particular Corsair unit).
Cut to today. My new SeaSonic X Series X-850 PSU shows up, and I, happy camper, go to install it into my PC, thinking all of my problems are going to be solved. Wrong. Get everything plugged in, and the system, once again, won't power up. I get that brief LED flash and the tiniest bit of fan spinning still, and then nothing. (My walls are starting to look like very tempting targets again.) So, I swap out the PSU for the old 500W one again, and the PC boots up just like normal.
I am at such a loss here. I almost feel like this is similar to when a breaker gets tripped when too many appliances or what-not are all plugged into an outlet and being used at the same time. And yet, the PC worked just fine with the 600W PSU for a month. I'm not sure what could have happened to change that. I tried a couple of different outlets even, one plugged into a heavy duty surge protector power strip, the other not, but still the same thing -- the 600W and the 850W PSUs won't start the PC, but the 500W one will. (The 500W one is an Ultra XFinity, btw.)
Sorry for the novel, but I don't know what other steps to take here, what else to try to troubleshoot... and I figure the more info I supply to others, the better.
Thanks for reading and, hopefully, for any help you might be able to provide!
This past month, I built a new PC. The build was as follows:
- CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor
MoBo: Asus M5A97 R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB DDR3-1600 Memory (x4)
HDs: Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk & Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: MSI Radeon HD 7950 3GB Video Card
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case
PSU: Corsair CX 600W 80 PLUS Bronze Certified ATX12V Power Supply
Optical Drive: LG UH12NS30 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD Writer
So, I set to work investigating. (After resisting the very strong urge to punch a wall or ten. >.>) Thinking it might be the Power Switch, I tried jumping the pins from the MoBo directly, to no effect. (Although I might not have been doing it right.) Next step was to test the PSU itself. I tried the paperclip test with the PSU plugged in only to a fan, and even that wouldn't work. So, the PSU was starting to seem the culprit. The final nail in its coffin was when I pulled an old 500W PSU from an old PC and plugged it in, and the PC booted up just fine. The Corsair PSU got sent back for a refund, and I went ahead and ordered a new PSU (as some further research revealed this seemingly happened frequently with this particular Corsair unit).
Cut to today. My new SeaSonic X Series X-850 PSU shows up, and I, happy camper, go to install it into my PC, thinking all of my problems are going to be solved. Wrong. Get everything plugged in, and the system, once again, won't power up. I get that brief LED flash and the tiniest bit of fan spinning still, and then nothing. (My walls are starting to look like very tempting targets again.) So, I swap out the PSU for the old 500W one again, and the PC boots up just like normal.
I am at such a loss here. I almost feel like this is similar to when a breaker gets tripped when too many appliances or what-not are all plugged into an outlet and being used at the same time. And yet, the PC worked just fine with the 600W PSU for a month. I'm not sure what could have happened to change that. I tried a couple of different outlets even, one plugged into a heavy duty surge protector power strip, the other not, but still the same thing -- the 600W and the 850W PSUs won't start the PC, but the 500W one will. (The 500W one is an Ultra XFinity, btw.)
Sorry for the novel, but I don't know what other steps to take here, what else to try to troubleshoot... and I figure the more info I supply to others, the better.
Thanks for reading and, hopefully, for any help you might be able to provide!
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