I have a serious power supply problem, but it involves my weekend working with pelts, and watercooling, although the end problem is that I blew up my power supply, and need some advice on how I did it. I think it was due to, well I guess I'll go ahead, and then you'll move the post.
I spent all night fri night, and sat night sealing up my mobo.
I did the normal stuff dialectric grease in the pin holes, RTV around the outside, lapped my coldplate, placed my foam ( This took the longest because I took my time, and did everything very slow and steady to ensure I would not have a condensation problem. I finished about 6pm last night.
I put the system back together, all my drives cards etc..
Things were looking good, but alas the kids were in the background and my wife was giving me hell for having not spent any time with the family and for some reason I hooked up something I'd never hooked up before:
There is a lead coming off my 450w PS that looks identical to the same leads that come on fans, you know the 3 pin deals, but ahh I didn't pay attn to the colors of the wires (yellow/Black/red(I think)) I had hooked this to my chassi fan header on the mobo. I have a seperate PS for my 156w pelt, so I fired it up, water was pumping, everything looked good so I booted the system, the drives spin up, but no POST. I had been having problems with the second DDR slot on my A7A anyway so I pulled that stick out, and set the mobo to "jumperfree". The system did a POST I went to BIOS and BOOM the thing froze in the first BIOS screen, I mean fast, so I powered EVERYTHING down. I knew something was fishy, so I cleared the CMOS, and when I powered up this time BOOM! The PSU turned into a blue ball, and died.
Obviously I did something very very bad, but the only thing I can tell is that I hooked up this "mysterious" lead (I don't know what it's for?
Any suggestions on what I can do now?
Obviously I am going to hook up another power supply (my 450w baby is RIP), but if anyone is familiar with this lead, and what it's for, and what all I have damaged please give me some advice, after working that many hours If I've blown everything in my system, well you see where I'm going.
Please Please help me out here guys.
I spent all night fri night, and sat night sealing up my mobo.
I did the normal stuff dialectric grease in the pin holes, RTV around the outside, lapped my coldplate, placed my foam ( This took the longest because I took my time, and did everything very slow and steady to ensure I would not have a condensation problem. I finished about 6pm last night.
I put the system back together, all my drives cards etc..
Things were looking good, but alas the kids were in the background and my wife was giving me hell for having not spent any time with the family and for some reason I hooked up something I'd never hooked up before:
There is a lead coming off my 450w PS that looks identical to the same leads that come on fans, you know the 3 pin deals, but ahh I didn't pay attn to the colors of the wires (yellow/Black/red(I think)) I had hooked this to my chassi fan header on the mobo. I have a seperate PS for my 156w pelt, so I fired it up, water was pumping, everything looked good so I booted the system, the drives spin up, but no POST. I had been having problems with the second DDR slot on my A7A anyway so I pulled that stick out, and set the mobo to "jumperfree". The system did a POST I went to BIOS and BOOM the thing froze in the first BIOS screen, I mean fast, so I powered EVERYTHING down. I knew something was fishy, so I cleared the CMOS, and when I powered up this time BOOM! The PSU turned into a blue ball, and died.
Obviously I did something very very bad, but the only thing I can tell is that I hooked up this "mysterious" lead (I don't know what it's for?
Any suggestions on what I can do now?
Obviously I am going to hook up another power supply (my 450w baby is RIP), but if anyone is familiar with this lead, and what it's for, and what all I have damaged please give me some advice, after working that many hours If I've blown everything in my system, well you see where I'm going.
Please Please help me out here guys.
