So this one is driving me mad and I'd love your help.
Today I bought a new PSU - an Antec 520w high gamer modular. I wanted to replace an ageing PSU that was over 6 years old and seemed to be fading me.
So today I hooked it up and nothing powered. No fans. No lights. Nothing.
So I disconnected and started from scratch. Plugging in the 24 pin to the motherboard and the 8 pin (4+4) to the CPU and tried the power.
Success!
But here is the weird bit...
If I try and connect a 4 pin or 6 pin to the PSU (molex or Graphics card) it fails to switch on at all. It's like there is no power going through. I've tried just one molex so it's not overloaded and I get nothing.
Have I got a dodgy PSU? Or is it not powerful enough to run my system?
I have an i54670k / GTX 970 / 2 x hard drive / 8gig ram and few USBs etc.
Originally I had a 700w PSU and it worked fine but I downgraded to a 520w as I thought this would still be enough power.
It's driving me mad as I can't work out if I'm doing something really silly connection wise or it's something else.
Thank you all
Today I bought a new PSU - an Antec 520w high gamer modular. I wanted to replace an ageing PSU that was over 6 years old and seemed to be fading me.
So today I hooked it up and nothing powered. No fans. No lights. Nothing.
So I disconnected and started from scratch. Plugging in the 24 pin to the motherboard and the 8 pin (4+4) to the CPU and tried the power.
Success!
But here is the weird bit...
If I try and connect a 4 pin or 6 pin to the PSU (molex or Graphics card) it fails to switch on at all. It's like there is no power going through. I've tried just one molex so it's not overloaded and I get nothing.
Have I got a dodgy PSU? Or is it not powerful enough to run my system?
I have an i54670k / GTX 970 / 2 x hard drive / 8gig ram and few USBs etc.
Originally I had a 700w PSU and it worked fine but I downgraded to a 520w as I thought this would still be enough power.
It's driving me mad as I can't work out if I'm doing something really silly connection wise or it's something else.
Thank you all