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I recently bought an Antec TurePower 2.0 550 watt supply for the rig I'm building.
Yesterday I finished my case mods (lights, fans) and decided to hook up the power to see how everythign looked. So I get everything plugged in and lip the switch, and nothing happens. No hum, no noise of any kind, the fans on the supply don't even twitch.
The only thing I can think of is that I may need it connected to a motherboard to turn it on, either that, or I just got a dud supply.

Any thoughts?
 
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL, Thanks bub, I needed that.
To answer your question, follow the wires attached to the power switch. Where do they go? I'm guessing the blue and white wires are leading to nothing. This being the case, how will the powersupply know to turn on?
For the record, it is possible to use a paperclip to turn the supply on by jumping two of the wires in the 20/24 pin bundle, but you don't want to do this. For reasons I don't fully understand, you are only supposed to turn a powersupply on if there is a load on it. If you take a bare powersupply and force it on with no devices hooked up to it, the powersupply is supposed to...die? Explode? Brake? I'm not sure, but I hear its bad.
 
I don't mind if it's my own idiocy preventing success, I'm just glad to know I didn't buy an $80 paper weight.

I assumed you could just flip a supply on because while walking through Fry's a few weeks ago I saw a few cases on display with humming fans and lights on with nothing but a power supply inside.
 
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL, Thanks bub, I needed that.
To answer your question, follow the wires attached to the power switch. Where do they go? I'm guessing the blue and white wires are leading to nothing. This being the case, how will the powersupply know to turn on?
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Oh, I get what you're saying, you're talking about the case switch. I'm talking about the power switch on the back of the power supply itself. I would logically assume that if you plug ed a supply into a wall and hit it's switch it would do something.
 
It won't. It's pin 14 I think, the green wire surrounded by black wires. You can short it to ground and the PS will turn on. I don't really think anything will happen if you turn it on without a load, but I don't recommend you do it, simply because you don't need to mess with it and it sounds like maybe you're not that familiar with electronics so just leave it alone until you put the MB in.
 
Just plug in the fans and lights, they should be enough of a load that you can turn the psu on without damaging anything. How do you guys think that we fill and leak test a water cooling rig? I turned the psu on by shorting it and all I had pulling power was my pump. Four fans and two lights will put the same load on.
 
I don't think you need any load at all, but even if you power it up without a load, it's not going to test the power supply, except that it is capable of turning on. It won't be tested until you put a full load on it, so just wait until you put the MB in.
 
If you're asking me, there isn't any point, IMO, which I already said. If someone wants to do it, it's pin 14, the green wire, low level active.
 
Well I never actually said that it would test if the psu was up to the task under full load. He just asked how you could do it and you can by shorting it. I had a good reason to do it, first to fill and get rid of bubbles in my water cooling then to run it without power to anything else to leak test it.

Leaking water cooling set up + power to mb = bad
 
I assumed you probably weren't talking to me, but you did reply to my post and said 'how do you guys...', so I wasn't entirely sure. :?
 
"Four fans and two lights will put the same load on." I think that depends on the lights, fans, and pump. I really doubt four fans have the same draw as a water pump. 12V * .1A * 4 fans = 4.8W. I could be wrong, but I'm 99% certain that a water pump draws more then ~5W.
 
Yes it does but again it will depend on the pumps and lights... which is beside the point since all he needed to do was put some load on, not alot.

Standard 120mm led fans are around 3-4 each, 4 of those is 12-16w add another couple of cold cathode lights and you are in the ballpark for a standard pump. Don't be a dumb@ss.
 
When I ran my figures, I used the info provided on the fan from my newest case. (the point one amp, .1A) I have never used a light in my case, I'd bet that two of them would be fine for power when turning on the PSU, and that doesn't include the fans... Either way, I don't believe I'm a dumbass for pointing out that a pump might be drawing more power then a few fans.
I also don't believe this is a wise move for the OP. If your this unsure about PSUs, draw, and how this works, then I don't believe you should be doing this.
 
The reason I called you that was because you didn't say anything in your first post about the question... just wanted to show off or something.

The entire purpose of this tread was he wanted to see if his components were working not the psu... someone said that you needed a load... I said that I'd done this with a pump but that some fans and a light would do as well...

Yesterday I finished my case mods (lights, fans) and decided to hook up the power to see how everythign looked.
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Didn't say anything in my first post about his problem??? Are we reading the same thread? I had the first response, and it did relate to his problem. My next post was about whether or not some fans and lights provided the same powerdraw as a waterpump. (looking at the thread, it seems that I called you on something, I'm sorry if I made you feel bad.)
 
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