Hi,
so I had to get a new PSU for my B650-based PC a few months ago cause my old PSU of 10+ years died. I went with a Gigabyte Aorus Elite P1000W (GP-AE1000PM PG5), knowing that I'll probably need to upgrade sometime in the future, so I thought I'd use it for now on my old PC and put it in my new one once I build it.
Well, the "future" came sooner than I thought as I decided to build a new PC now.
Here's what my build is gonna look like:
Motherboard - MSI X870 Gaming Plus Wifi
CPU - Ryzen 7 9800x3d with a Noctua air cooler
GPU - Zotac Geforce RTX 5090 Solid OC
SSD - Samsung Evo Plus
RAM - Gskill Flare X5
And that Gigabyte PSU I'm already using.
Now here's the thing: I had a little "incident" a couple months ago, right when I bought and installed the PSU. I had connected everything and started the PC and it worked fine, but then I forgot I also needed to connect some device to it with a USB-C cable, which I don't do very often. So I blindly reached with the USB-C cable at the back of my PC, not remembering fully where the USB-C slot is exactly located and accidentally touched a USB-A slot with it. And not just that, I did it twice in a span of like 10 seconds (lmao)!
The moment I did it the first time, the PC rebooted and I didn't connect the dots that my touching the wrong port was the cause, and my hand with the cable was still hovering mere milimeters from all the slots and I still couldn't see anything back there, so the PC didn't even finish rebooting as the end of the cable I was holding brushed over the USB-A port once more. Now the PC shuts down. Painfully slowly I realize what was the reason (now the reason I didn't think about it first at all was cause one I never heard that you could short the PC like that and two I thought it was something wrong with the PSU itself cause it was literally my first PC launch with it). It doesn't turn on... I keep pressing the power button a few times - no luck. I go cry in the corner for a bit and come back in a couple of minutes, try the power button again, and now it works!
Fast forward 2-3 months, the old PC has been working fine, never caught a stray shutdown or a reboot or a BSOD since the incident. No noticeable instability (except for my old GPU's hotspot overheating, but that's on her and not the PSU I suspect). So knowing that a 1000W Platinum PSU should kinda be enough for that system I'm building now, I wanted to move the current PSU to the new PC. But I can't help but be paranoid about it. Could it be that something went awry as the result of my double incident? Would it be risky to install it into my brand new system? I'm already way over what I was going to spend on a new PC since the decision to go for a 5090 was quite a spontaneous one (but I kinda need all that vram for my work with AI), so I would really prefer not spend any more on the build.
Additional info: there was no spark or smell coming from PC or the port during the incident; the USB port in question is also working fine; I didn't disassemble the PSU after it happened since it's on warranty, but I took a close look at it and visually it looked totally fine; I don't have any tools to test the current, voltage, etc.
What do you guys think? I'd love to hear your opinions. Thanks in advance!
so I had to get a new PSU for my B650-based PC a few months ago cause my old PSU of 10+ years died. I went with a Gigabyte Aorus Elite P1000W (GP-AE1000PM PG5), knowing that I'll probably need to upgrade sometime in the future, so I thought I'd use it for now on my old PC and put it in my new one once I build it.
Well, the "future" came sooner than I thought as I decided to build a new PC now.
Here's what my build is gonna look like:
Motherboard - MSI X870 Gaming Plus Wifi
CPU - Ryzen 7 9800x3d with a Noctua air cooler
GPU - Zotac Geforce RTX 5090 Solid OC
SSD - Samsung Evo Plus
RAM - Gskill Flare X5
And that Gigabyte PSU I'm already using.
Now here's the thing: I had a little "incident" a couple months ago, right when I bought and installed the PSU. I had connected everything and started the PC and it worked fine, but then I forgot I also needed to connect some device to it with a USB-C cable, which I don't do very often. So I blindly reached with the USB-C cable at the back of my PC, not remembering fully where the USB-C slot is exactly located and accidentally touched a USB-A slot with it. And not just that, I did it twice in a span of like 10 seconds (lmao)!
The moment I did it the first time, the PC rebooted and I didn't connect the dots that my touching the wrong port was the cause, and my hand with the cable was still hovering mere milimeters from all the slots and I still couldn't see anything back there, so the PC didn't even finish rebooting as the end of the cable I was holding brushed over the USB-A port once more. Now the PC shuts down. Painfully slowly I realize what was the reason (now the reason I didn't think about it first at all was cause one I never heard that you could short the PC like that and two I thought it was something wrong with the PSU itself cause it was literally my first PC launch with it). It doesn't turn on... I keep pressing the power button a few times - no luck. I go cry in the corner for a bit and come back in a couple of minutes, try the power button again, and now it works!
Fast forward 2-3 months, the old PC has been working fine, never caught a stray shutdown or a reboot or a BSOD since the incident. No noticeable instability (except for my old GPU's hotspot overheating, but that's on her and not the PSU I suspect). So knowing that a 1000W Platinum PSU should kinda be enough for that system I'm building now, I wanted to move the current PSU to the new PC. But I can't help but be paranoid about it. Could it be that something went awry as the result of my double incident? Would it be risky to install it into my brand new system? I'm already way over what I was going to spend on a new PC since the decision to go for a 5090 was quite a spontaneous one (but I kinda need all that vram for my work with AI), so I would really prefer not spend any more on the build.
Additional info: there was no spark or smell coming from PC or the port during the incident; the USB port in question is also working fine; I didn't disassemble the PSU after it happened since it's on warranty, but I took a close look at it and visually it looked totally fine; I don't have any tools to test the current, voltage, etc.
What do you guys think? I'd love to hear your opinions. Thanks in advance!
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