- Mar 30, 2014
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I am building a new system using an Asrock Z77 Extreme4 motherboard and the power supply would not power up yesterday. I thought the PSU (Corsair CX600M) was bad. At first it failed the paper clip test. All yesterday before I gave up for the day. Then this morning the Corsair passed the paperclip test. I hooked it up to the MB and the board posted. Sudden joy. Shut down and restarted a few times. Restarted after I plugged in a keyboard and mouse. Posted again and got into the MB setup. So far so good. No drive power connected but drives (PNY XLR8 SSD 120GB and WD Caviar Blue 1TB WD10EZEX and DvD drive) connected to MB. Looked like it was working so shut down connected the power to the drives. No power from PSU like before. I did the paperclip test and no luck. It failed. I also need to mention I used an older Rosewill Exrteme PSU yesterday. I did not try the paper clip test before hooking this up. No power like the Corsair. Then tried the paperclip test. Rosewill failed that.
So could the MB or the drives cause the PSU to fail or fail intermittently. The Rosewill belongs to an old system my son had. I need to get with him to add some parts back and see if it still works.I am temped to run out and get a PSU but am afraid this will get fried. Any suggestions. I will be returning PSU to NewEgg. I got the MB from Newegg and tempted to return it.
Oh my memory is an 8GB Patriot Viper 3 PC312800
Case is Roswill R5 Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Case
Optical Drive SAMSUNG DVD Burner SATA Model SH-224DB/RSBS
So could the MB or the drives cause the PSU to fail or fail intermittently. The Rosewill belongs to an old system my son had. I need to get with him to add some parts back and see if it still works.I am temped to run out and get a PSU but am afraid this will get fried. Any suggestions. I will be returning PSU to NewEgg. I got the MB from Newegg and tempted to return it.
Oh my memory is an 8GB Patriot Viper 3 PC312800
Case is Roswill R5 Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Case
Optical Drive SAMSUNG DVD Burner SATA Model SH-224DB/RSBS
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