Hdd caught fire

jposo1 · Nov 17, 2015

Upon insalling my me corsair rm 850I power supply and booting up my system one of my three hard drives caught fire I immediately uplugged my pc from the wall then removed the hdd and restarted it. It now starts normally could this be my fault for shorting out my hdd against the case or the psu for an improper voltage or is it the fault of the cord I used from my previous power supply any help would be appreciated

daswilhelm · Nov 17, 2015

man, i've had awful luck with corsair psu's over the last few years, sorry to hear about your troubles.

did you have the setup running properly, and then change out the power supply? or is this a new build?

PandaButtonFTW · Nov 17, 2015

when you say the cord from the old powersupply, do you mean you didn't use the new power cables that came with the 850I? that could be a problem

jposo1 · Nov 17, 2015

To answer both questions yes the setup worked just fine before installing the new psu this one was supposed to be hold rated and supposedly safer for my system. And I used an old power cord with the same plugs for power to my CD drive and three hard drives judst this time one of them, well caught on fire

daswilhelm · Nov 17, 2015

old power cord, you mean the three prong plug that goes to the wall outlet? or an internal cable that goes between the psu and the hdd itself?

jposo1 · Nov 17, 2015

The cable that powers my hard drives I forget the name of it

daswilhelm · Nov 17, 2015

yea, thats most likely a problem. use the cables that came with the unit.

that being said, return the psu for a new one, and obviously dont use the burnt hdd.

ko888 · Nov 17, 2015

Why return the PSU if it's not damaged? The vendor may charge a hefty restocking fee if there's nothing wrong with the product. User damage is not covered under warranty either.

jposo1 · Nov 17, 2015

I put the proper cable on and it all works fine we'll without my fried hdd device obviously I feel dumb for reusing that old cable hopefully someone else on here can learn from my mistake

daswilhelm · Nov 17, 2015

ko888 :

because it was just involved with a fire? call it bad and swap it out for a new one... unless you like to take chances.

ko888 · Nov 17, 2015

daswilhelm :

The PSU did not fail. The fire was caused by user error and isn't covered under warranty.

daswilhelm · Nov 17, 2015

didn't say it failed, did i? would you use a power supply involved in a situation like this? if you would, then i'd rather not listen to your advice.

ko888 · Nov 17, 2015

daswilhelm :

The fire caused by the short-circuit happened on the hard disk drive. That PSU has built-in short-circuit protection.

I certainly would reuse the PSU after load testing it and confirming that it is still running within spec.

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