Power Supply problems?

muddocktormuddocktor
edited October 2004 in Hardware
OK, last week while I was at work, my daughter's dually (the Chaintech machine) just quit working on her. She went to bed one night and it was up and running (and folding) and the next day when she went to get on it after school it was down, but with the drive lights still lit and fans running and it wouldn't power down with the front panel switch. I tried talking her through some basic troubleshooting over the phone, but couldn't get any response out of the system so I just set her email up on the watercooled dually over the phone. Today I decided to start checking out the problem and I think that overpriced Enermax EG651-PVE psu has gone bad. It will not power up anything other than the fans and other 12v devices like the hard drive and won't turn off except with the power switch on the psu. I even unhooked everything from the psu and the bugger still powers up the psu fans about 5 seconds after turning on the power switch on the psu, with no jumper in the atx connector.

I'm not sure if it's fried anything else in the computer because the chaintech mobo uses the AUX connector, besides the 12v connnector and the atx connector and my spare psu doesn't have the AUX connector. I ordered a 400 watt Fortron Source psu to replace that POS enermax a few minutes ago, but I guess I'll have to do some experimenting with the various components to make sure they still work too. :(

Has anyone else had an ATX psu act this way with them?

Comments

  • scottscott Medina, Ohio Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    Hey Mudd

    I had an enermax crap out a couple weeks ago. POST HERE
    It had enough juice to light the led on the mobo but that was about it. After toggeling the psu switch it would try to start some fans but only for a second. I did RMA it and have received the replacement. It is sitting on the shelf.


    Scott
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited October 2004
    Ive had this problem happened at a lanparty I was @. turned out it was a problem with my bios ;D. I used the bios reset jumper and it worked perfectly.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2004
    JEEZUZ It's GrayFox!!!

    Nice to see you've stumbled across SM.com :)

    Hope to see you @ LanMania III Nov 27 & 28th where we'll try to own in UT2K4 again :)
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2004
    SimGuy wrote:
    JEEZUZ It's GrayFox!!!

    Excuse my ignorance, but... who? :scratch:

    And no, mudd, I've never seen a PS do that before.
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