[SOLVED] Psu clicking sound turning off and on

[MaxedOutMaxt]

After building it with everything installed, I went to go power the pc on. All of the lights would turn on and everything seems to be working fine. But then, the psu would make a click sound and all of the lights would turn off (except for motherboard light) and fans would stop spinning. Then everything would turn back on until the psu clicks again and it turns into a cycle. This is my first ever build.

I've tried to power it on without the gpu installed afterwards but the same thing would happen. I even tried each stick of ram to see if maybe one of them is faulty but the same problem happens. I have a suspicion that it has to do with the psu itself but I just want to make sure.

This is my current build: - CPU: Intel Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor - Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 DESIGNARE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard - CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i PRO 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler - Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory - Storage: Corsair MP600 Force Series Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive - GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB AORUS XTREME Video Card - Case: Cooler Master MasterCase H500M ATX Mid-Tower w/ 4x Side Tempered Glass Panels, Type-C I/O Panel, 2x Vertical GPU Card PCI Slots & 2x 200mm ARGB Fans w/ARGB Controller - Power Supply: CORSAIR HXi Series, HX1000i, 1000 Watt, 80+ Platinum Certified, Fully Modular - Digital Power Supply

 

[jonnyguru]

Sounds like you might have a short somewhere.

You should try it with just the motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler and outside of the case (sitting on top of the motherboard box, for example).

No memory, no graphics card, no RGB. You have too many variables there. You can't just take one thing out and hope for the best.

Power it on like this and see if it stays on. Sure, it won't boot, but it should at least power on and stay on.

And, just to be sure, you're using only the cables that came with the PSU. Correct?

 

[MaxedOutMaxt]

Sounds like you might have a short somewhere.

You should try it with just the motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler and outside of the case (sitting on top of the motherboard box, for example).

No memory, no graphics card, no RGB. You have too many variables there. You can't just take one thing out and hope for the best.

And, just to be sure, you're using only

Sounds like you might have a short somewhere.

You should try it with just the motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler and outside of the case (sitting on top of the motherboard box, for example).

No memory, no graphics card, no RGB. You have too many variables there. You can't just take one thing out and hope for the best.

And, just to be sure, you're using only the cables that came with the PSU. Correct?

Yes, I'm only using the cables that came with the psu

 

[jonnyguru]

Ok.

Let us know how the troubleshooting goes.