Difference with SATA cables with different PSU's?

JmTwins10

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Hello!

I am currently helping a friend with setting up a hard drive. I have experience with building PC's, but this never came up for me, and now I'm curious and need help.

When I plugged in his new HDD into my EVGA Supernova, it burned up when I booted up the PC. I'm now beginning to wonder, I had replaced my HX750 with this EVGA PSU. Are PSU cables, in any form, but this particular case, SATA cables in modern PSU's the same? I must have accidentally grabbed my HX750 cables. When I look on the side it says "TXM/HX Series Only". I'm too scared to try my pc, but I don't want to throw cables into his PC that won't work. He got his replacement, but I really don't want to cause harm. Could it also be a faulty power supply?

Thank you to anyone who helps, and please forgive me if this is a basic question that I'm thinking too hard about.

Thank you again!