Recently my Corsair VX-550 died. I decided to replace it with a Corsair TX-650 but I've been encountering some very strange problems. During the RMA process I was running my PC with a spare power supply (ritmo force860) with no issues. The other day when I installed the new TX650 the system wouldn't boot, instead the fans, leds etc would turn on momentarily then turn themselves off then on a again repeatedly until I shut it off manually at the wall or the back of the PSU.
At first I assumed something was shorting the mother board (during the installation I had moved some cables and stuff around in the case a bit) so I opened it up and made a few adjustments and then it turned on just fine. Later that night I shut the computer down and then attempted to switch it back on again, just out of curiosity, only to encounter the same problem (refusing to boot fans starting and stopping ad infinitum). I was tired so I decided to go to bed and deal with it in the morning, when I got the PC booted normally but sure enough once I switched it off again it refused to turn back on until I let it 'cool down' for a while (not literally cool down, the unit doesn't appear to be overheating or anything).
The power supply's fan is also unusually loud. For the most part the noise just consists of that normal hum that computer fans make but it's amplified more than one would expect of a corsair. Additionally it emits a subtle rattling/vibrating noise every 30 seconds or so.
So here wheres stuff starts to get really bizarre. I tested the TX650 with a different computer and it worked, the rattling sound was still there but the PC turned on and stayed on the 5 or 6 times I tested it. What the hell is going on here? It's an old Acer machine that belongs to my parents (must be about 7 years old). The only explanation I can think of is perhaps this spare computer requires so little power that even a dying PSU can handle it, other than that I'm stumped.
The fact the my PC boots fine with a spare PSU but not with the new corsair obviously suggests that the corsair PSU is the problem but by the same token the fact that the spare PC works with the corsair seem to suggest the opposite. Why is this happening?
If the PSU is faulty, why would the computer boot up sometimes and not others?
Corsair is supposed to be an extremely reliable brand and yet this is the second faulty product I have received from them within the last few months. Is it possible that I'm doing something wrong? Am I killing these PSUs somehow? could the problem be my computer or am I just really unlucky?
I managed to dig up this thread describing the exact same problem:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/292983-31-computer-turns
The OP resolved the issue by replacing the PSU with a different model but it was rather unclear as to what caused the problem...something about a voltage incompatibility? How would I determine if this is the case? I'm worried that If it's incompatible instead of faulty I will be unable to return it to the store, in which case I'm kinda stuck
System specs:
Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST31000528AS
Samsung SH-S223C SATA DVDRW Drive
Powercolor Radeon HD5770
1GB Mushkin 996768 Silverline PC3-10666 (2x2GB)
DDR3 Intel Core i5 760
ASRock H55M-L Motherboard
Asus Xonar DG sound card
What do you guys make of all this?
Thank you so much for your time
At first I assumed something was shorting the mother board (during the installation I had moved some cables and stuff around in the case a bit) so I opened it up and made a few adjustments and then it turned on just fine. Later that night I shut the computer down and then attempted to switch it back on again, just out of curiosity, only to encounter the same problem (refusing to boot fans starting and stopping ad infinitum). I was tired so I decided to go to bed and deal with it in the morning, when I got the PC booted normally but sure enough once I switched it off again it refused to turn back on until I let it 'cool down' for a while (not literally cool down, the unit doesn't appear to be overheating or anything).
The power supply's fan is also unusually loud. For the most part the noise just consists of that normal hum that computer fans make but it's amplified more than one would expect of a corsair. Additionally it emits a subtle rattling/vibrating noise every 30 seconds or so.
So here wheres stuff starts to get really bizarre. I tested the TX650 with a different computer and it worked, the rattling sound was still there but the PC turned on and stayed on the 5 or 6 times I tested it. What the hell is going on here? It's an old Acer machine that belongs to my parents (must be about 7 years old). The only explanation I can think of is perhaps this spare computer requires so little power that even a dying PSU can handle it, other than that I'm stumped.
The fact the my PC boots fine with a spare PSU but not with the new corsair obviously suggests that the corsair PSU is the problem but by the same token the fact that the spare PC works with the corsair seem to suggest the opposite. Why is this happening?
If the PSU is faulty, why would the computer boot up sometimes and not others?
Corsair is supposed to be an extremely reliable brand and yet this is the second faulty product I have received from them within the last few months. Is it possible that I'm doing something wrong? Am I killing these PSUs somehow? could the problem be my computer or am I just really unlucky?
I managed to dig up this thread describing the exact same problem:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/292983-31-computer-turns
The OP resolved the issue by replacing the PSU with a different model but it was rather unclear as to what caused the problem...something about a voltage incompatibility? How would I determine if this is the case? I'm worried that If it's incompatible instead of faulty I will be unable to return it to the store, in which case I'm kinda stuck
System specs:
Seagate Barracuda 1TB ST31000528AS
Samsung SH-S223C SATA DVDRW Drive
Powercolor Radeon HD5770
1GB Mushkin 996768 Silverline PC3-10666 (2x2GB)
DDR3 Intel Core i5 760
ASRock H55M-L Motherboard
Asus Xonar DG sound card
What do you guys make of all this?
Thank you so much for your time