Accidentally plugged sata optical drives into 6+2 PCI-E & 4x4 CPU port on PSU

[magicanthony]

I'm doing a new build (not my first) and I made a really stupid mistake.

I have two optical blu-ray burners. I connected there power to one sata power cable (one that has multiple connections) and accidentally plugged it into the 6+2 PCI-E & 4x4 CPU port on the PSU instead of the peripheral and sata port. Those ports are 8 hole ports but the 6 pin sata port fit. I also had the 2 data sata cables hooked to the motherboard.

The drives would light up when I pressed the button but wouldn't open. I tried a few times. Finally shut down and realized the mistake and plugged it in the right port.

Now when I boot the drives open and I didn't get any error messages. Bios loads up fine.

But I think I might smell a slight burnt smell from the drives. Do you think I damaged anything? Would it just be the optical drives?

No hard drives were connected.

I've had the computer on for a little while now just sitting on the BIOS screen. Temps are fine and I don't think I smell anything burning (I removed the blu-ray drives). Hard to tell if the PSU has an odor to it or not.

What do you think?

Thanks.

Full specs of PC:

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit - OEM
CASE: Corsair Carbide Series 200R Black ATX Mid Tower Case
CASE FANS: (2) 120mm front intake, (1) 120mm rear exhaust, (1) 140mm top exhaust
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Z97-A LGA 1150 ATX
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 4.0 GHz
CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14S, Slim Twin Towers, 140mm
MEMORY: 32gig - CORSAIR Vengeance 16GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 1600 SDRAM (PC3 12800)
VIDEO CARD: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 4GB WINDFORCE 2X OC EDITION
PSU: CORSAIR AX Series AX860 860W 80 PLUS PLATINUM
OPTICAL DRIVES: 2 x LG WH16NS40 BD Rewriter 16X Speed
HARD DRIVE1: SAMSUNG 850 PRO 2.5" 256GB SATA III (SSD)
HARD DRIVE2: Western Digital Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb
MONITOR: Samsung S27E650D 27" LED LCD (1920x1080)

 

[boosted1g]

Whatever was connected on that chain of power cables you plugged in can be effected.

If the drives still function just fine then I wouldnt worry about it

 

[magicanthony]

Whatever was connected on that chain of power cables you plugged in can be effected.

If the drives still function just fine then I wouldnt worry about it

By "whatever was connected to the chain" do you mean whatever was on the same sata power cable that the drives were on, or anything that was connected to the PSU (which was the motherboard)?

The drive doors opened, but I have no OS yet so I didn't test if they actually function. But since they have a burning smell I am not using them anymore. I'm getting new drives.

I'm worried about the power supply being damaged and taking time to eventually have a problem. Or other components.

Thanks.

 

[boosted1g]

The first one, what was plugged into the same sata cable "chain"

The PSU has many protections to prevent shorts and other things, so the possibility of the PSU being damaged or it damaging anything else is very very low.

In all likeliness the worst you did was send 12v to 5v circuits in the drives.

 

[magicanthony]

The first one, what was plugged into the same sata cable "chain"

The PSU has many protections to prevent shorts and other things, so the possibility of the PSU being damaged or it damaging anything else is very very low.

In all likeliness the worst you did was send 12v to 5v circuits in the drives.

Thank you for the response. I wound up having the power supply placed as well, just to be safe. So far everything seems to be good with the new power supply and optical drives.

Thanks

 

[christian.cr7.ch]

Hey and happy New year, i know its a bit old this topic but the same thing happen to me so it would be Nice to know how it turn out