Replaced my PSU today. (Corsair HX1050, other one spontaneously died)
Both of my HDDs, SSD, and Optical Drive seemingly have no power
I've checked all the connections and used different power cords.
It will POST and get to BIOS, where it says that it cannot find any boot devices.
None of the drives are recognized in BIOS.
Any ideas?
Unplug all of the power cables (even from the motherboard) except one SATA power cable on a hard drive. Then take the 24 pin power cable for the motherboard and use a bent paperclip to short the green power on wire to a black wire (ground) to turn the PSU on.
If the hard drive doesn't power on by itself, the PSU is defective and needs to be RMA'd.
I noticed it's a modular PSU. This may seem stupid, but make sure both ends of the cable are plugged in, both to the PSU and drives. I'm saying this because I had this difficult to resolve issue that happened to be just a loose cable.
Had a friend check it. Turns out all my SATA devices are dead. Beginning the slow and painful manufacturer RMA process now.
I don't know how your other one died, but it'd probably be cheap and easy to fix it if you know how to solder, or know someone that does.
[QUOTE=Craig Willmore;34088405]Had a friend check it. Turns out all my SATA devices are dead. Beginning the slow and painful manufacturer RMA process now.[/QUOTE]
Smell them to see if they are burnt, if they are then I don't think you will have much luck, but rather will have to pursue the manufacturer of your last PSU.
You don't know how frightening it is to short something, or even a pump going out due to its FET's practically melting.
[QUOTE=pure.Joseph;34091557]Smell them to see if they are burnt, if they are then I don't think you will have much luck, but rather will have to pursue the manufacturer of your last PSU.
You don't know how frightening it is to short something, or even a pump going out due to its FET's practically melting.[/QUOTE]
If its just the SATA cables that aren't working, they could just be bad cables, or the connectors inside the PSU have bad wiring. Modular PSUs are generally very cramped on the side with the plugs from the wall of wires inside, it would be very easy in the manufacturing process for one or more wires to break from stress.
And if you've ever had a MOSFET melt, then that was a design flaw. All non-shit MOSFETs have internal thermostats and will either shut down, reduce the amount of current output or run in pulse mode when they overheat. If you look at a spec sheet for a MOSFET, it will generally tell you the current limits for two temperatures (one cool, one hot) and one last one for pulse mode.
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