[SOLVED] Psu not working due to humidity?

[RolandoL]

I powered off my pc yesterday late night, tried to power it on earlier in thr morning and oops, it doesn't work. After wondering what to do i decided to get the psu alone and test it with its self-test tool and that was apparently the reason. The psu don't work, however it has its led working, It is a Evga supernova 750 G5.
Now, the other part is that I am having a very rainy days, humidity levels are high, but it means nothing for now.. a friend told me to apply hot hair with a hair drier and I didn't believe him. The fact is that after pushing a lot of hot air into the psu it worked, but outside the PC, later didnt worked again, and later it received more hot air and worked again. I am about to set a conventional fan pushing a lot of non-hot air and will try tomorrow.

What do you think about this.
I am struggling with this.
Thanks in advance

 

[Darkbreeze]

What I think is that you have an EVGA model that is not very good, certainly not up to the standards of past "G" series units like the G2 and G3, and no longer manufactured for EVGA by Super Flower like those units were.

Since that unit has a ten year warranty, you would be foolish to do anything other than RMA the unit back to EVGA for replacement. Hair dryers? Humidity? These are nonsense and have nothing at all to do with the unit working or not working. Unless of course you live in a shack that's twenty feet from the tide mark on the ocean somewhere or along the shore of one of the great lakes. Then MAYBE humidity and moisture play a role, but even so, they really shouldn't unless there is VISIBLE moisture condensing on the surface of something.

Return the unit for replacement if you are certain it is not functioning correctly,

or better yet, buy a unit that has good build quality and performance.

EVGA 750 G5 review at Tom's Hardware

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[RolandoL]

What I think is that you have an EVGA model that is not very good, certainly not up to the standards of past "G" series units like the G2 and G3, and no longer manufactured for EVGA by Super Flower like those units were.

Since that unit has a ten year warranty, you would be foolish to do anything other than RMA the unit back to EVGA for replacement. Hair dryers? Humidity? These are nonsense and have nothing at all to do with the unit working or not working. Unless of course you live in a shack that's twenty feet from the tide mark on the ocean somewhere or along the shore of one of the great lakes. Then MAYBE humidity and moisture play a role, but even so, they really shouldn't unless there is VISIBLE moisture condensing on the surface of something.

Return the unit for replacement if you are certain it is not functioning correctly,

or better yet, buy a unit that has good build quality and performance.

EVGA 750 G5 review at Tom's Hardware

Discussion - PSU recommendations and power supply discussion thread - Tom's hardware

Below you will find MY standard list of recommended power supplies and beyond that this thread is intended as a landing place for questions or discussions regarding specific units, platforms or related PSU tech, all of which are all welcome to be discussed here. If it's related to power supplies...

forums.tomshardware.com

My reply:
I fully understand that I bought a not so good model, but how do you explain that after applying hot air with the hair dryer for only 10 seconds the psu does power on. 🤯🤯🤯

 

[Darkbreeze]

Faulty internal thermal sensor.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Its not worth repairing or messing with when it is under warranty, and EVGA has such a good reputation for customer service.

 

[Darkbreeze]

Seems they are from a country where EVGA doesn't have a presence, so IDK what to tell them. I can't change the world, I can only tell you what I recommend doing under normal circumstances.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Well they may still be able to return it with the retailer if they havent had it for too long

 

[Darkbreeze]

Nope. Not in this case. Apparently it was brought to him by a relative from out of the country. I don't think that's an option either. I have a feeling this is simply a ¯\(ツ)/¯ situation.