- Jun 12, 2018
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Quite a story behind this one, so here it goes.
I was experiencing hard crashes whenever I'd play certain games. Initially, I purchased a new GPU (upgraded from a gtx 970 to a gtx 1070), and although the upgrade was nice, it did not seem to fix the hard crashes my computer was experiencing. Next culprit I suspected was the PSU, so last week I went ahead and purchased the SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze EVO Edition 520W just to test whether this new PSU would have any affect on the occasional hard crash I was having.
This is when all hell broke loose:
As soon as I swapped out the old power supply unit with this one, and flipped the switch to on, the fans and lights started up for about a second and then shut down. Then the smoke started billowing out from the machine. I quickly killed the power, unplugged everything, and inspected the damage. Near as I can tell the GPU was fried. I'm a little afraid to plug the GPU back in, but I'm fairly certain it's a gonner. However, after removing the GPU, I tried once again to start the system with the new PSU. The fans give a half turn then fail. This can be replicated by flipping the switch to off and on, but other than that it does nothing.
So now to my questions: Was it a faulty GPU that coincidentally burned itself up when putting in the new PSU thus causing the PSU to fail as well? Was a lemon of a PSU that fried my GPU and continued to be inoperable after removing the GPU? Or perhaps something I may be overlooking entirely?
PS: I plugged my old power supply unit back into the case and everything else seems to still be operable (thank the computer gods.) I also ran my build through pcpartpicker to make sure this test PSU could handle my hardware and determined it was well within limits.
System Hardware:
OS: Windows 10 Home Edition
CPU: Intel i7 4790k
Motherboard: Sabertooth z87
GPU: gtx 1070 (assumedly fried)
former PSU: Corsair 1050w gold
test PSU: SeaSonic M12II 520w Bronze EVO (assumedly busted)
HDD + SSD Combo
Noctua cpu fan (can't remember the model
)
Any additional questions you may have, feel free to ask.
MAJOR UPDATE: Continued looking into the problem and my graphics card is (probably) fine. Turns out my HDD and probably my SSD are burnt to a crisp. The likely culprit was me assuming power cables for hard drives were interchangeable across PSUs. I was simply plugging in the old cables into the new PSU which might have had different voltages on them? Regardless, I'm considering the issue solved for now unless someone tells me this is not the case. Anyway, if this was the issue, learn from my mistake.
I was experiencing hard crashes whenever I'd play certain games. Initially, I purchased a new GPU (upgraded from a gtx 970 to a gtx 1070), and although the upgrade was nice, it did not seem to fix the hard crashes my computer was experiencing. Next culprit I suspected was the PSU, so last week I went ahead and purchased the SeaSonic M12II 520 Bronze EVO Edition 520W just to test whether this new PSU would have any affect on the occasional hard crash I was having.
This is when all hell broke loose:
As soon as I swapped out the old power supply unit with this one, and flipped the switch to on, the fans and lights started up for about a second and then shut down. Then the smoke started billowing out from the machine. I quickly killed the power, unplugged everything, and inspected the damage. Near as I can tell the GPU was fried. I'm a little afraid to plug the GPU back in, but I'm fairly certain it's a gonner. However, after removing the GPU, I tried once again to start the system with the new PSU. The fans give a half turn then fail. This can be replicated by flipping the switch to off and on, but other than that it does nothing.
So now to my questions: Was it a faulty GPU that coincidentally burned itself up when putting in the new PSU thus causing the PSU to fail as well? Was a lemon of a PSU that fried my GPU and continued to be inoperable after removing the GPU? Or perhaps something I may be overlooking entirely?
PS: I plugged my old power supply unit back into the case and everything else seems to still be operable (thank the computer gods.) I also ran my build through pcpartpicker to make sure this test PSU could handle my hardware and determined it was well within limits.
System Hardware:
OS: Windows 10 Home Edition
CPU: Intel i7 4790k
Motherboard: Sabertooth z87
GPU: gtx 1070 (assumedly fried)
former PSU: Corsair 1050w gold
test PSU: SeaSonic M12II 520w Bronze EVO (assumedly busted)
HDD + SSD Combo
Noctua cpu fan (can't remember the model
)Any additional questions you may have, feel free to ask.
MAJOR UPDATE: Continued looking into the problem and my graphics card is (probably) fine. Turns out my HDD and probably my SSD are burnt to a crisp. The likely culprit was me assuming power cables for hard drives were interchangeable across PSUs. I was simply plugging in the old cables into the new PSU which might have had different voltages on them? Regardless, I'm considering the issue solved for now unless someone tells me this is not the case. Anyway, if this was the issue, learn from my mistake.
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