- Mar 26, 2014
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Hello Everyone,
I recently bought Antec BP450S PSU which is a level below VP450P. I test ran it in the first day for 1 hour with the PSU fan spinning and PSU was cool. In the second day I started memtest86 and went away when I came back after 7 or 8 hours I noticed that PSU cooling fan was not running and the PSU walls were heated. I found that two pin PSU cooling fan connector was disconnected. I somehow managed to connect the pins without removing 'Warranty void if removed' sticker. Now the fan is running and PSU is running good and cool.
I have two questions to solve
1. Whether quality of components inside PSU were degraded during that 7-8 hour run without fan and might have damaged PSU?
2. How the 2 pin PSU fan connector disconnected?
(All I can guess is the connector was connected very loose in factory itself and mingled with other wires which when pulling, connection came off).
My test setup during that 7-8 hours:
Intel core i5 3470
Gigabyte Z77 board
8 gb ram(2x4GB)
keyboard
usb pen drive
I bread-boarded and PSU was outside.
This is entry level power supply from antec.
I recently bought Antec BP450S PSU which is a level below VP450P. I test ran it in the first day for 1 hour with the PSU fan spinning and PSU was cool. In the second day I started memtest86 and went away when I came back after 7 or 8 hours I noticed that PSU cooling fan was not running and the PSU walls were heated. I found that two pin PSU cooling fan connector was disconnected. I somehow managed to connect the pins without removing 'Warranty void if removed' sticker. Now the fan is running and PSU is running good and cool.
I have two questions to solve
1. Whether quality of components inside PSU were degraded during that 7-8 hour run without fan and might have damaged PSU?
2. How the 2 pin PSU fan connector disconnected?
(All I can guess is the connector was connected very loose in factory itself and mingled with other wires which when pulling, connection came off).
My test setup during that 7-8 hours:
Intel core i5 3470
Gigabyte Z77 board
8 gb ram(2x4GB)
keyboard
usb pen drive
I bread-boarded and PSU was outside.
This is entry level power supply from antec.
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