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Dead Seasonic...

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BlueElite06

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Well, where to start.

Tonight was the big night, I got all my parts in, the hardest being my A8N32 mobo...All was well until it came time to power up the brand new computer that was just built...

Waiting for something Awe inspiring...and alas, nothing happened. Quite literally, nothing. After looking throught everything I could, reconnecting all I could ... Well needless to say, I think it is dead. I can't think of one thing I did wrong, all the connections are placed and, well, secure.

I don't know what else to do, I tried differnet plugs...everything, I'm no expert but im stumpped. If anyone has ANY idea what could be wrong...Please please please tell me 😛.

My specs are:

2 gigs of Dual channle XMS ram
A8N32 Mobo
3800 Dual Core CPU
2x 7800 GT Evga
100 GB Maxtor HD (I know ****** -.-)
Sea Sonic 600 Watt SLI ready PSU

Im beat, I just don't know what to do, perhaps i misplaced something? I even had my old man look at it. This is my first build in the last 3 years, so I could simply have something out of place. If anyone has a solution or has a similar setup ... could you tell me what you did?

~Blue

Ill keep this updated through the night.
 
Oh, one thing if it was not obvious. When I say "Nothing happens" that means: No lights, No fans, nothing. To me that means dead PSU.... 🙁
 
To check the PSU, plus in some fans to the molex cables (so that you have a load on the PSU), and then short the green wire to a black wire. A paper clip will work just fine. See if the fans turn on, and if the fan on the PSU come on (you have to physically look at it, as the PSU is quiet)...
 
Originally posted by: BlueElite06
What green wire 0.o
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On the 24p motherboard connector. If you are looking at the plug (ie you can see the pins inside the plug) with the notch on top, it will be in the top row, fourth from the right. Short that to one of the black ones next to it.
 
Have some fans pluged into the PSU.

Near the center of the 20 or 24 pin shell will be a green and several black wires,
jump them with a paper clip or short piece of striped wire.

Do that and the fans should power-up.

Is the switch turned on at the back of the PSU?
Plug the PSU into a differant wall socket.

That's all I got.


...Galvanized
 
It's not dangerous at all. I have a power supply done like that, but it's soldered to a switch in the front so that I can always turn the PSU on and off. Just try it real quick. If you think the PSU is already dead, what do you have to lose?
 
ok, well, A paper clip, eh? And then I just place the two different ends to the green and any black....then lay it down or? I mean holding it would result in pain right ;p
 
Originally posted by: BlueElite06
ok, well, A paper clip, eh? And then I just place the two different ends to the green and any black....then lay it down or? I mean holding it would result in pain right ;p
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No, it won't shock you. There is no voltage through that line--it's only a switch to turn on the PSU. Even if you did the same thing with the +12V to ground, it wouldn't shock you (unless you held your tongue to it, but even then it's iffy). Although shorting +12V to ground would through the short-circuit protection on the PSU on, and it would power off immediately (did that one time on accident. The stuff works though).
 
Thanks for the advice you guys, really helpful...I guess I now would like to know what a good PSU would be that i can get from Fry's would be... =(
 
I'd just get another Seasonic. Granted, you got a bad one, but that is no reason not to get another one. Just my thoughts. I love mine though, and I just ordered a 430 for the wife's machine. But to each their own.
 
how long would an RMA take? I would be all for that if i could RMA for another SS, I guess i could risk that. But I would rather not wait 3 weeks 😛 im growing impatient...and you could imagine im sure, I mean its all ready to go it just needs life!
 
Originally posted by: BlueElite06
Alright, did it...no power...gg dead supply

Well, I would like to get this system up and going ASAP...So, I think Ill RMA for a refund and go TO fry's for another PSU...

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4591447?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG Maybe this one?
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NO NO NO NO. That is a < $40 PSU. Those were selling for $20 two months ago and
just recently $5 w/rebate. DO NOT buy an X-Connect for $99.99.

You have a $250 mainboard and don't feed it with that POS PSU 😀 Really!!


...Galvanized

 
Probably way off-base here but is it possible your motherboard is touching the case and causing a short? Try taking it out of the case and laying it on a piece of cardboard or something.

It's happened to me several times ... took me a while to figure it out the first time around. Doesn't hurt to try if you're going to RMA it, either.
 
Newegg is usually pretty fast on RMAs, though I've never got a Seasonic from them. More than a week would be unacceptable. I killed a Seasonic building a workstation for a client (Thunder K8WE, 2 Opteron 280s, 4GB RAM, Quadro 4500 SLI, and 5 WD4000YR RAID5 was a wee too much for it) and Seasonic cross-shipped for me, but don't expect that (I've given them near a quarter of a million in business this year building/speccing various computers for my clients and especially my ex-employers who still use me as a consultant). The most glowing experience I had with them was my workstation died while I was at a conference in China recently, and I wanted to see the Pearl River anyway, so I went to Dongguan City and toured the Seasonic factory, and got it replaced with one right off the line. The test and manufacturing equipment is some of the most high-tech stuff you'll ever see, and is definately better than what I saw at Channel Well and Topower. The QC team seem to be understaffed though, and the shipping/receiving department consisted what looked like a bunch of stoners (the amount of marijuana the grows wild in china is insane)... I wasn't impressed by that, but the construction of the PSUs is beyond scrutiny.

Seasonic RMA is generally pretty fast. they guarantee they will have you another within 7 days once they recieve the defective unit, usually 3-4 days.

You're sure you attempted to short-start right correctly?
 
I was kinda disappointed with my newegg RMA. Cost me $16 bucks to UPS my motherboard back to them using standard ground shipping ($99 mb so over 15% of the price I paid just to ship back my non working board). Then they don't ship you a new one until they've "checked" what you sent back. Took almost two weeks to get a new board from when I sent it back. Amazon on the other hand next day shipped me a revision 2 Antec Titan when the original they sent me was a revision 1. And they emailed me a ups prepaid return slip to send the old one back. Total down time was 3 days.
 
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