- Oct 31, 2013
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So we had a power surge in our house and even though I had my supply cable connected to a Surge protector, which was pretty old btw, PSU made some pop sound and the PC failed to start after that.
I took it out and tested it, which created a sort of a bright white light from the PSU, yeah it was fire. But it was incredibly bright. It was perfectly fine before this. So what exactly had failed here? Can I claim warranty? It is a corsair GS 600.
I now have the system running on my old coolermater xtreme power plus 650W, and PC runs fine, so no internals were affected.
I just find it hard to believe that Corsair, that takes pride in their PSUs never bursting in an incredible fashion, was exactly what happened to me.
Anyone had Corsair PSUs blow up? Don't they have a mechanism to prevent exactly this?
I took it out and tested it, which created a sort of a bright white light from the PSU, yeah it was fire. But it was incredibly bright. It was perfectly fine before this. So what exactly had failed here? Can I claim warranty? It is a corsair GS 600.
I now have the system running on my old coolermater xtreme power plus 650W, and PC runs fine, so no internals were affected.
I just find it hard to believe that Corsair, that takes pride in their PSUs never bursting in an incredible fashion, was exactly what happened to me.
Anyone had Corsair PSUs blow up? Don't they have a mechanism to prevent exactly this?
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