- Sep 13, 2016
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So this will be my 4th RMA in 3 years. Now one of them was . . .not my fault but wasn't warranted. basically I run a water cooling system and I was disconnecting it and unplugged the tubing from my motherboard's mosfet water cooling block and put some paper towel in there to absorb the water left in the block. I would have watched it and replaced it when the paper towel had absorbed all it could however to use a pleasant euphamism I was . . . .detained not 15min later for about 14 days and water dropped onto the power supply which was located directly under it. Corsair was cool though they replaced it.
However recently I've had problems with my 3rd RMA and posted for another. I have a Z170A MSI Gaming 9 ACK motherboard, 32gb of trident 3200mhz ddr4 ram, a i7 6700k not overclocked at the time, 2 Asus GTX770 directCU's with 2gb of ram SLI'd and 3 d5 pumps with boost converters I modified from car parts so they run at their maximum of 24v instead of 12v. I have 2 Samsung 840 evo's one 240gb and the other is 500gb and a 2tb WD black hd. I have a blue ray burner as well it's an LG not sure the make. Oh and I have 19 Corsair sp120 High performance fans.
My problem is I had all the cables for my sata, molex, as well as my atx cables to power my graphics cards lined up in order on the top of the PSU. It was working fine for about 5 months maybe and then all of a sudden I started getting random shut downs. Then it would try to power back up and I could hear the solenoid clicking in the PSU and it would power up for half a second then power down and do it over and over again. Also if I remember correctly when you press the test button on the AX1200I it's supposed to be equivalent to putting a paper clip in the 24 pin connector and it's supposed to be constant as long as you're holding the button down. That no longer works. I press the button it powers up clicks then powers off. I've seemed to solve the problem ( for now ) as far as the random shut downs go by switching the cables to different places around the power supply. I've been cleared for a RMA and Corsair has been nice enough as this is my 4th RMA to supply me with prepaid shipping. I'd feel bad if I was doing something wrong and I RMA'd it a 4th time for no reason. Am I overloading the rails? Or did I blow certain rails on my PSU by over using them and that's why the random shut downs have stopped for now by switching the modular positions. Did my PSU die from natural causes or am I performing irresponsible computing?
Any advice on this subject would be both appreciated and welcome. Especially to someone who knows a little bit more about PSU's and how they operate then I do. To me it seems like I'm not overloading the rails as it's a 1200 watt power supply I"m only running 2 cards and I"m running a modest number of fans but they don't draw much power.
However recently I've had problems with my 3rd RMA and posted for another. I have a Z170A MSI Gaming 9 ACK motherboard, 32gb of trident 3200mhz ddr4 ram, a i7 6700k not overclocked at the time, 2 Asus GTX770 directCU's with 2gb of ram SLI'd and 3 d5 pumps with boost converters I modified from car parts so they run at their maximum of 24v instead of 12v. I have 2 Samsung 840 evo's one 240gb and the other is 500gb and a 2tb WD black hd. I have a blue ray burner as well it's an LG not sure the make. Oh and I have 19 Corsair sp120 High performance fans.
My problem is I had all the cables for my sata, molex, as well as my atx cables to power my graphics cards lined up in order on the top of the PSU. It was working fine for about 5 months maybe and then all of a sudden I started getting random shut downs. Then it would try to power back up and I could hear the solenoid clicking in the PSU and it would power up for half a second then power down and do it over and over again. Also if I remember correctly when you press the test button on the AX1200I it's supposed to be equivalent to putting a paper clip in the 24 pin connector and it's supposed to be constant as long as you're holding the button down. That no longer works. I press the button it powers up clicks then powers off. I've seemed to solve the problem ( for now ) as far as the random shut downs go by switching the cables to different places around the power supply. I've been cleared for a RMA and Corsair has been nice enough as this is my 4th RMA to supply me with prepaid shipping. I'd feel bad if I was doing something wrong and I RMA'd it a 4th time for no reason. Am I overloading the rails? Or did I blow certain rails on my PSU by over using them and that's why the random shut downs have stopped for now by switching the modular positions. Did my PSU die from natural causes or am I performing irresponsible computing?
Any advice on this subject would be both appreciated and welcome. Especially to someone who knows a little bit more about PSU's and how they operate then I do. To me it seems like I'm not overloading the rails as it's a 1200 watt power supply I"m only running 2 cards and I"m running a modest number of fans but they don't draw much power.
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