Recent content by David_194

After getting a new PSU to fix another problem, I ended up using the cables from the old PSU for the fans, hard drives, and optical drives, because I heard that is a thing I can do. Well I guess it's not a thing you can do because on bootup, my fans didn't turn on and a bad smell started coming...

I got the new power supply yesterday and reused the cables for the hard drives and fans. I booted up the computer and not only did the fans not come on, but a strange smell started coming from... somewhere. I swapped out the old cables for the new ones and booted up. The BIOS not only failed to...

The problem still persists after a couple of days, though it happens randomly now, and I guess I should get over the whole five stages of grief and buy a new PSU. I was hoping it wouldn't come to this but it would seem that the PSU is truly faulty. From what I've heard Corsair isn't very good...

So I realized that while putting in the card reader, a screw fell into my system and I think near the HD. Removed the screw and the problem seems to have gone away. People have said that the Asus Power Surge Detection utility is often faulty and this seems to have fixed things...? I will update...

My motherboard, an Asus P8 Z77-V LK, has, as of yesterday morning, been reporting power supply surges from my Corsair CX750M whenever I try to boot up a game. This is strange because the system has been running fine with this power supply for two years, and I see no changes to make it run...