CX430M - 2 DOA Need help with replacement

[tizodq]

Hi all!

I bought a HTPC back in February and about about a month and a half ago my cx430m developed a clicking sound and RMA'd it. After receiving my replacement and running it for the past month it now sounds like the fan is on full blast and is extremely loud. I don't know if I should RMA it again and pay the $15 to return it or cut my losses and get a different PSU.

I do run my PC close to 24/7 (7am to 1am) if that matters as this PC does act as a media storage also.
All suggestions would be great. My setup is as follows:

Silverstone GD06b case
Intel i3 4130
Gigabyte GA-h87m-d3h
Gskill ripjaws 8 gigs ram
2 4tb Seagate nas HD
Kingston 256 gig ssd
Windows 8.1

 

[bryanl]

Original ran normally for four months, then developed clicking sound.

Replacement ran normally for a month, then fan remains at full speed.

How can two power supplies be DOA (dead on arrival) when they operated normally for at least a month?

What does the fan do when you remove the cover of the HTPC case? Some are so crowded they run hot inside.

If your RMA replacement is defective, Corsair may pay for all shipping, next time.

 

[Compman55]

You aare not supposed to open one up, but often I have taken the fan out and upgraded it to a ball bearing model, or oiled the sleeve bearing model with mobil 1. Your choice. Your saftey. I do not have a problem doing this but others might.

 

[tizodq]

Original ran normally for four months, then developed clicking sound.

Replacement ran normally for a month, then fan remains at full speed.

How can two power supplies be DOA (dead on arrival) when they operated normally for at least a month?

What does the fan do when you remove the cover of the HTPC case? Some are so crowded they run hot inside.

If your RMA replacement is defective, Corsair may pay for all shipping, next time.

Good call, I meant that two have failed in a short period of time. I did open up the case and let it run for an hour and the problem still existed that night. I was upset and left it powered off for roughly 24 hours and plug it back in and the problem stopped and hasn't come back yet.

Do you think it was just a temporary problem this happened or something more long term that I should call Corsair?

You aare not supposed to open one up, but often I have taken the fan out and upgraded it to a ball bearing model, or oiled the sleeve bearing model with mobil 1. Your choice. Your saftey. I do not have a problem doing this but others might.

I would rather not just to be safe Good advice though.

 

[Compman55]

I will add, I once had a really crappy china PSU way overloaded running 7 x 80GB hard drives, a A64 2600+, and Ati 7500 AGP 4X card for years and the only reason the PSU failed is because the fan locked up. I oiled it every year and forgot once. Smelled electronics burning, and when I shut down it never came back on...... The inside was cooked black.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I will add, I once had a really crappy china PSU way overloaded running 7 x 80GB hard drives, a A64 2600+, and Ati 7500 AGP 4X card for years and the only reason the PSU failed is because the fan locked up. I oiled it every year and forgot once. Smelled electronics burning, and when I shut down it never came back on...... The inside was cooked black.

I did something like that too. I had a cheapo 300W PSU in my case, when I had a PII or PIII CPU, something around that era. It was an Allied / Deer PSU. It burned out one night after I had put my system back together. Turns out, I had replaced the fan some time ago, and I ran the molex for the fan outside the PSU, and I had forgotten to plug it in when I re-built my system. Whoops.

 

[Compman55]

Allied / Deere was the brand come to think of it.