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Is my PSU faulty?

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December 28, 2013 8:23:13 AM

Hi, I built a system about 6 months ago (still in warranty) and have never had any issue with it.
I recently came to add a 2nd SSD, which required me to connect an additional "wire" to the modular PSU, so i had a power connector free for the SSD.

I found after connecting it up that my PC would not start.

It turned out that if I had anything at all connected to the new "wire" including an existing drive, my PC would not start. I could hear a faint electrical noise when pressing the power button but nothing happened.

even after disconnecting the drive I would have to disconnect the PSU from the mains and wait until the MOBO power light died before I could restart. I am currently running the new drive on a molex to sata converter without issue.

Does anyone have any idea what the issue is? I'd like to exhaust all issues before returning the PSU.

SPEC:
850W SEASONIX X-850 MODULAR
ASUS P9X79 LE S2011 MOBO
Intel Core i7 3820 s2011
4GB GByte GTX670 OC N670OC-4GD
Noctua NH-D14-2011 INTEL COOLE
Kingston HyperX Genesis XMP 16GB 2400MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL11 DIMM (Kit of 4) XMP
OCZ 120GB Vertex 3.20 SATA III 2.5
+ 1 sata hdd

New SSD was same model

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January 31, 2014 3:47:35 AM

hmm, i've had no issues since.. i'm wondering if i plugged a drive cable in to a PIE rail by accident.
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January 31, 2014 8:08:46 AM

The connectors are not identical; you'd have to push really hard to insert it in the wrong socket.
February 3, 2014 2:47:04 AM

GhislainG said:
The connectors are not identical; you'd have to push really hard to insert it in the wrong socket.


Hmm OK thanks, well I'm now running an additional GPU, and moved my existing hard drives on to the socket I believe I had issues with, and i'm having no issues. If anything I guess that just leaves the modular cable itself that I used.
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