All right so I have learned the hard way that one should never use the psu cables from one OEM (Thermaltake) on another (Seasonic). "It never even occurred to me that this would not be standardized. I mean, the shape is standardized, but not the pin order???" Oh well....
So the seasonic was plugged in to the mobo and cpu with its own wires because the Thermaltake it was slated to replace was not fully modular; SATA etc were modular , but the two main mobo connectors were hard wired to the Thermaltake so the Seasonics own wires were connected there. The older design may have saved me from 100% calamity.
But I appear to have blown out three drives that were hooked up in series because I thought it wouldn't matter if I saved myself some time and maneuvering in tight space just to take the existing SATA power cable and switch it to the seasonic.
Well to its credit the Seasonic immediately switched off, but now to get things working again I need to assess the damage. It is useful to know that I have a nearly identical home build upstairs which was spared these experiments so I was able to connect some things to see what was working.
1. SSD with operating system on it: when hooked up to the upstairs computer you can read the directory and navigate around. But I haven't been able to get it to accept a Win 8.1 operating system disk to repair damage
2. Two other Western Digital HDDs that were on the same cable will get slightly warm when I plug them in upstairs but they appear be dead. The 8.1 operating system up there won't recognize them. At all.
3. I don' t know how to assess the condition of the Seasonic, I see on the net that they come with a little tester but there wasn't one in my package that I saw. It seems to me likely that it protected itself but I can't really know.
4. There was a second "string" of SATA power cable devices that provided power to two DVD read/write drives. These are working (they open and close) but it is possible that I fried them too. I do have extra DVDs installed on the computer upstairs so I suppose I could bring one of those down and see what happens. It is possible that if I switch an upstairs DVD drive to downstairs and vice versa that the one from downstairs won't work upstairs which would tell me I fried that one too.
The error I get on the BSOD is 0xc000000e so the system is self-diagnosing with a hardware issue that can be fixed through software, but frankly I think that is wrong, I done did something real bad to the hardware. And the system in blue screen is completely unresponsive in any case.
So what I see is:
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Should I proceed as if the mobo is OK, thereby sparing myself the expense of a new OS installation and new mobo etc?
Greg N
So the seasonic was plugged in to the mobo and cpu with its own wires because the Thermaltake it was slated to replace was not fully modular; SATA etc were modular , but the two main mobo connectors were hard wired to the Thermaltake so the Seasonics own wires were connected there. The older design may have saved me from 100% calamity.
But I appear to have blown out three drives that were hooked up in series because I thought it wouldn't matter if I saved myself some time and maneuvering in tight space just to take the existing SATA power cable and switch it to the seasonic.
Well to its credit the Seasonic immediately switched off, but now to get things working again I need to assess the damage. It is useful to know that I have a nearly identical home build upstairs which was spared these experiments so I was able to connect some things to see what was working.
1. SSD with operating system on it: when hooked up to the upstairs computer you can read the directory and navigate around. But I haven't been able to get it to accept a Win 8.1 operating system disk to repair damage
2. Two other Western Digital HDDs that were on the same cable will get slightly warm when I plug them in upstairs but they appear be dead. The 8.1 operating system up there won't recognize them. At all.
3. I don' t know how to assess the condition of the Seasonic, I see on the net that they come with a little tester but there wasn't one in my package that I saw. It seems to me likely that it protected itself but I can't really know.
4. There was a second "string" of SATA power cable devices that provided power to two DVD read/write drives. These are working (they open and close) but it is possible that I fried them too. I do have extra DVDs installed on the computer upstairs so I suppose I could bring one of those down and see what happens. It is possible that if I switch an upstairs DVD drive to downstairs and vice versa that the one from downstairs won't work upstairs which would tell me I fried that one too.
The error I get on the BSOD is 0xc000000e so the system is self-diagnosing with a hardware issue that can be fixed through software, but frankly I think that is wrong, I done did something real bad to the hardware. And the system in blue screen is completely unresponsive in any case.
So what I see is:
- Likely need to replace the three drives with fresh install of the OS
- Diagnosis needed on the DVD drives to be done by switching one unit from upstairs to downstairs
- Keep the new Seasonic psu? About the only way to diagnose it is to install it fully on the bad computer, and see if it gets the same error as the Thermaltake. You might say, what about installing it fully on the computer upstairs. To which I respond: that is my only functioning computer right now, I dare not risk its health on either of the psus downstairs.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Should I proceed as if the mobo is OK, thereby sparing myself the expense of a new OS installation and new mobo etc?
Greg N