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Post by zila1 on Apr 12, 2022 16:47:01 GMT -5
I think my brand-new Corsair power supply is defective. Twice now since I've owned it my rig would not power on. The standby lights on the board were on. Press the on switch on the case and nothing. Press the start button on the motherboard and again no start. Turn off the switch on the power supply, wait a minute or so, turn the switch back on and the rig powers up like normal. This symptom is pointing to the power supply.
Gonna contact Corsair. I know they were having a similar issue with the HX1200 and HX1200i. Looks like it trickled down to these too.
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Post by zila1 on Apr 12, 2022 17:10:28 GMT -5
I contacted Corsair with these symptoms. Let's see what they say.
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Post by georgekokovinis on Apr 12, 2022 17:58:55 GMT -5
The PSU is ok, 99%.
I have 15 Corsair PSU and on occasion they all do the same thing.
There seems to be a cable design error.
Although you think that main plugs are firmly connected on the PSU, they are not.
Disconnect and reconnect firmly main 24pin cable, 8pin board cables and all pci-e.
Then retry.
Most probably it will all be fine.
If not RMA time. 10 years warranty.
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Post by george on Apr 13, 2022 17:49:45 GMT -5
If you have a matching spare PSU to try with you will know more. This sounds similar to a struggle I had with a brand (new) PSU I had long ago, did all the stunts with cabling, BIOS, CMOS and it did not reason up. Changed to another PSU, and it was Ok.
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Post by zila1 on Apr 13, 2022 18:08:36 GMT -5
The PSU is ok, 99%. I have 15 Corsair PSU and on occasion they all do the same thing. There seems to be a cable design error. Although you think that main plugs are firmly connected on the PSU, they are not. Disconnect and reconnect firmly main 24pin cable, 8pin board cables and all pci-e. Then retry. Most probably it will all be fine. If not RMA time. 10 years warranty. Yeah, I have to go thru the motions of checking all the cables and such. What a pain though. I will wait til I finish building up my backup rig and put that into service. Then I will take my DD down and go thru it. Weird how it works perfectly fine and then maybe once every couple of weeks there it goes and it won't power up. Reset the switch on the power supply and off she goes again. If it were a cheap power supply it wouldn't bother me so much but this sucker costs some bucks. |
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Post by georgekokovinis on Apr 13, 2022 20:44:24 GMT -5
The PSU is ok, 99%. I have 15 Corsair PSU and on occasion they all do the same thing. There seems to be a cable design error. Although you think that main plugs are firmly connected on the PSU, they are not. Disconnect and reconnect firmly main 24pin cable, 8pin board cables and all pci-e. Then retry. Most probably it will all be fine. If not RMA time. 10 years warranty. Yeah, I have to go thru the motions of checking all the cables and such. What a pain though. I will wait til I finish building up my backup rig and put that into service. Then I will take my DD down and go thru it. Weird how it works perfectly fine and then maybe once every couple of weeks there it goes and it won't power up. Reset the switch on the power supply and off she goes again. If it were a cheap power supply it wouldn't bother me so much but this sucker costs some bucks. Some bucks, lol ? 5 X Ax1600i ( 550 a piece ) is more than some bucks. And 10 X Hx1200i, lol. Seriously now, I have sent them 4 pieces for RMA. They replaced the psu's immediately. So, a few days ago I have a sealed brand new Ax1600i on the bench, testing an Msi Rtx 3090 Ti. Firestrike extreme and the whole system shuts down as the benchmark starts at stock settings to get a baseline score. Crap, faulty card I said. Nope. Bad connection of one Pci-e cables. Disconnect, reconnect, all good. Go figure. |
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