Corsair ax1500i
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Dicehunter
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I had an AXi PSU a while back and found that with my X99 Sabertooth board it would shut down randomly, Wouldn't do it with any other motherboard, Just the X99 Sabertooth, So it could be some type of surge protection bug kicking in like it was with mine as mine would do the exact same.
Thank you for the reply I have been looking into it and I still haven't got any further really I do not think it's a surge protection problem because it was working fine with the motherboard right up to the point it's failed I'm not sure if it's a power supplied problem it is only for 5 months old and the motherboard has been giving me trouble slow boot up times 7 + minutes along with their One faulty RAM slot and the hard drive SATA controller is going I think
Surfie
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It's possible that it could be a psu issue. The symptoms you describe i have seen before from a similar problem. Do you have a known, well working psu that you can test with?
I've seen dying psus do all sorts of damage to a system (including but not limited to: fire (!), total hardware destruction (through dirty/shoddy supply of power), destruction of specific components (gpu & motherboard most commonly)).
I would be a little surprised if it were the psu in this case. Corsair usually make pretty good psus, but anything is possible (maybe just a dodgy unit for instance)
I've seen dying psus do all sorts of damage to a system (including but not limited to: fire (!), total hardware destruction (through dirty/shoddy supply of power), destruction of specific components (gpu & motherboard most commonly)).
I would be a little surprised if it were the psu in this case. Corsair usually make pretty good psus, but anything is possible (maybe just a dodgy unit for instance)
Thank you for moving this discussion over to this post I have had a failure in the power supply like I said before and the reason why they will not give me warranty on this one is because I did not have the receipt for the first one which says said in the emails when they did replace the first one they said I would only have a 30 day warranty on it which is kind of bummer that is why I am looking the motherboard I am looking as cheap as possible to test to see if it is a problem I took the power supply itself to tester and said it was faulty but I have a second-hand power supply put into the Rig and it is doing exactly the same thing so I don't know if the power supply has damaged other components or it is another component affecting the power supply
The power supply I am using to test with was news last approximately 4 months ago and was in storage when I use it last it was in full working order as for a good brand I don't even know what they are anymore in the last 12 months I have had one seasonic power supply fail I have had a Corsair power supply failed two of them and I have had a Supernova EVGA power supply failed as well all in different Rigs but it's just not been my year for power supplys
A good way to narrow down the possibilities is to get some devices like hard drives plugged into the PSU and jumper the ATX cable to power up the PSU without being connected to the mainboard. This way you can see if the PSU still faults, without having the mainboard as a possible reason. You can buy a jumper connection to do this, or find the green wire in the ATX connector loom and jumper it to a black wire in the connector.
Something else I would consider, given you mention an unusual number of PSu failures recently, is testing your residence's power for issues in power delivery or power line faults. A good quality UPS can both protect against these issues as well as alert upon detecting some of them.
Something else I would consider, given you mention an unusual number of PSu failures recently, is testing your residence's power for issues in power delivery or power line faults. A good quality UPS can both protect against these issues as well as alert upon detecting some of them.
I have not got a ups but it is a very good piece of advice and thank you for it I have tried to computer in several locations not just in my house friends and computer professionals house and it is formed the same in all situations for the power supply I have not tested it like you say but I will do it ASAP and hopefully come up with a better understanding of what the problem is personally speaking I still think it is a motherboard but we will try testing the psu like you said and I will get back to you
Ps: running tested right now
Ps: running tested right now
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Given what you say I am completely inclined to agree that the mainboard is the most likely culprit, but I would also try to reduce your configuration to "Minimum Good Config". Remove everything that can be unplugged or uninstalled, other than what is absolutely required to successfully boot. The things that you can't remove or unplug should be tested in other systems, or other parts tested in yours, such as RAM, CPU, GPU if applicable, PSU. Once all these have been verified to be good, add devices back into the mix, one at a time. If the fault persists regardless of config, Mainboard should be the problem. Otherwise you can identify the culprit through single elimination.
Right at the test of been running for approximately 15 minutes the power supply has been Run with the green test light on the back of a parcel so far I also got another power supply connected it to the computer now it is grossly under rated to run the complete system but it will not even turn on now I ReConnected the original test power supply and it won't even turn on now I have also by the way try one graphs card and turning off the PCI lanes to the others and running one RAM stick and it will not start up at all
So, you might want to try the jumper method of powering on both PSU's with nothing attached. Don't leave them powered on if they start, that has the potential of damaging them. If they power up, but will not when connected to the mainboard, take out the CMOS battery on the board, unplug power to the PSU, and press and hold power button for about 30 seconds. Or, if your mainboard has the option, clear CMOS. This is just grasping at straws, but occasionally I have seen boards that wouldn't power up otherwise, as a means of preventing damage from the fault that exists.
Quite likely. Last resort, perhaps a friendly local PC shop would quickly and cheaply test the board for you. But I would be looking at new boards myself.
