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- Feb 3, 2005
A friend of mine who I built a pc for a couple of years ago had a hard drive die recently. So he got a replacement and added it. While he was replacing the broken one he decided to add another hard drive. He has a modular power supply (Corsair 1KW) and needed another power connection for the hard drive. In his rush to get it working he used a power cable from an old OCZ PSU. He switched on the pc and it turned off after 1 or 2 seconds. He tried again a few times and it did the same, but then after those few times it wouldn't switch on at all.
I then went and had a look. I took out the ram, graphics cards, hard drives and gave it a try but still won't switch on. The power supply is still good, i tested it separately. Could he have fried the mobo by using a power cable from a different PSU?
his system specs:
Asus Z7S-WS Dual LGA 771
2x Intel Xeon E5420 2.5GHz quad cores.
12GB DDR2 ECC ram (6x2GB)
4x 1TB hard drives
Corsair 1KW PSU
I then went and had a look. I took out the ram, graphics cards, hard drives and gave it a try but still won't switch on. The power supply is still good, i tested it separately. Could he have fried the mobo by using a power cable from a different PSU?
his system specs:
Asus Z7S-WS Dual LGA 771
2x Intel Xeon E5420 2.5GHz quad cores.
12GB DDR2 ECC ram (6x2GB)
4x 1TB hard drives
Corsair 1KW PSU