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New power supply no power to gaming pc
- Thread starter hlhbk
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Not always. My HDD didn't smell when I did something similar. But the disc drive I plugged in to see if the HDD was defective certainly did.
Yea it is. I don't know how the PSU manufacturers haven't sat down on a room and just simply agreed to some basic standard.
I never knew this but definitely good to know. Do they even warn people on packaging or anything?
Yup. Happened to me with a hard drive. Decided to be lazy and use a SATA power cable from an older PSU, took me a little while to figure out what happened when it wasn't being recognized on boot.
I mean, it does say in the manual
but you're right it's really dumb. I mean people somehow are able to get their CPU 8-pin connectors mixed up with their 8-pin GPU cables (and you'd have to jam those in there) so for cables that actually fit correctly to cause problems is a pretty shit situation.
hey! UCF! Ugh, parking nightmare flashbacks...
Really hoping OP's computer is still okay/salvageable.
Probably didn't want to unplug them from the motherboard and GPU, while unplugging them from the old PSU was easier?
Probably a time saving measure. Cables were already routed and plugged into components, I imagine
Oh fuck, OP. :(
I remember a twitter thread from a Bungie dev who did this. His fellow employees were half clowning on him and half expressing like oh no you did what.
TBF that's when I learned too.
I feel like anyone could make this mistake though. Like, when does it ever come up until someone else makes the mistake? And like you'd think the whole point of modular is everything can just switch out so why would it even seem like a bad idea?
I mean, everything else in PCs are very specifically built so that you CAN'T put things in wrong. This shit should be under warranty. There's no way someone would know this or even think to inquire about it.
See the problem with this though is that so much of this kind of thing is nonsense and useless. It's always so clearly covering-their-ass bullshit that it's meaningless to the consumer.
Hey please only use this stuff with this stuff is "we don't want to be liable for lawsuits" and gets used on all kinds of things it doesn't matter on.
Like, I had a power cable to a midi keyboard break. It said under no circumstances use another power adapter. Well I looked at the voltage and everything, found another like it, because it was a really common one, and got it, and wow wouldn't you know it worked just fine because there's no reason it wouldn't.
I remember a twitter thread from a Bungie dev who did this. His fellow employees were half clowning on him and half expressing like oh no you did what.
TBF that's when I learned too.
I feel like anyone could make this mistake though. Like, when does it ever come up until someone else makes the mistake? And like you'd think the whole point of modular is everything can just switch out so why would it even seem like a bad idea?
I mean, everything else in PCs are very specifically built so that you CAN'T put things in wrong. This shit should be under warranty. There's no way someone would know this or even think to inquire about it.
See the problem with this though is that so much of this kind of thing is nonsense and useless. It's always so clearly covering-their-ass bullshit that it's meaningless to the consumer.
Hey please only use this stuff with this stuff is "we don't want to be liable for lawsuits" and gets used on all kinds of things it doesn't matter on.
Like, I had a power cable to a midi keyboard break. It said under no circumstances use another power adapter. Well I looked at the voltage and everything, found another like it, because it was a really common one, and got it, and wow wouldn't you know it worked just fine because there's no reason it wouldn't.
I had an issue maybe similar. The PC would power on for a couple seconds without display, then shut off. No idea what it was, but eventually I found out it was the motherboard doing some shit, and the fix was to simply remove the battery for a bit, putting it back in, haven't had the issue since.
Unfortunately for OP when he went to unplug the new power supply it gained sentience and he is now in battle To save his pc.
probably
Im so happy i descovered this thread, this is exactly the type of mistake id make and i only imagine myself upgrading my gpu and psu over the next 5 years...so this being me was inevitable until this descovery.
Time savings assuming the industry made sense and was standardized.
You spend a nice amount of time tieing off cables for super clean cable management. When you need to replace the psu it would save so much time to just unplug the old one and replug it. Would turn a 30 minute job into a 2 minute job.
I built my first PC a year ago, watched a lot of tutorial videos, read many r/buildapc's posts, and never came across this information.
I find it weird this isn't widely known or mentioned as general tips/advices. Easy to fall in this mistake since it's very tempting because it is convenient to change the psu only, or trying to save some cables.
I find it weird this isn't widely known or mentioned as general tips/advices. Easy to fall in this mistake since it's very tempting because it is convenient to change the psu only, or trying to save some cables.
Pretty much this. Partly why i picked up a modular power supply, make life easier in the event it needed to be replaced. TBF ive only ever considered buying the same make psu i have right now with a higher watt output but even that seems sketchy after learning all this.
Yeah you don't want to reuse cables from a different model PSU even if they are branded by the same company. Several PSU sellers (For example Corsair) don't actually make power supplies themselves, they just rebrand products made by OEM's.
Yup. I had to RMA a Corsair PSU 2 weeks ago and they told me to send back all the cables that came with the PSU (minus external power cable), presumably because they don't want anyone using old cables on the replacement PSU and having to do another RMA.
im going to assume its dead as the OP has not responded.
Still don't know how we don't have standards for modular supplies. Would make life super easy
Still don't know how we don't have standards for modular supplies. Would make life super easy
I mean this is an industry where the front panel header pinout on motherboards has never been standardized either, so this isn't surprising. Both of my computers have modular PSUs and I had to make sure they unused cables were in clearly marked bags in case I added hardware that required pulling out a new cable.
OP never made it out, but yea just for anyone whose thinking about building a pc in the future never ever mix power supply cables. Bad for both the power supply and the system.
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I'm slightly worried about the OP's health and well being given the things an electrical issue can do.
Power supply cables are NOT standardized. That means the pin arrangement from EVGA, Corsair, etc aren't exactly the same. You need to use the cables that came with your power supply. Not doing so can and will cause irreparable damage to your components in your system.
