whiteknights
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I was having many problems with my old thermaltake 450w psu. so I replaced it with FSP HEXA+ 500w PSU. and now I'm facing few issues with my new psu and I need to make sure that my PSU is ok:
1- since I bought a new PSU my GPU is acting differently (GPU fan isn't spinning on startup, it doesn't spin on idle unless GPU is above a certain temp around 38-40c) this wasn't happening with my old PSU. I don't know if a PSU could do that to a GPU fan?.
2- I feel that my PSU cables get short easily, sometimes when I put the case on its side and move around inside it PC won't power up, no sign of any life. I have to organize the PSU cables somehow so pc can power up again.
3- it happened couple of times that my GPU won't post after taking the case out, I had to re-plug the 6 pins connectors so it can post again, and once when I did that pc returned to issue number 2 again not powering up, I had to organize the cables again and so on..
4- it happened once that after re-seating a ram stick pc powered on but no beep & no post.. I had to Re-plug the 24 pins connectors and 4 pins connectors so pc can power on again normally.
I don't know but I feel that my new PSU is very sensitive somehow, a little playing around inside the case and it get shorted and have issues like I mentioned above.
my specs:
mobo: Gigabyte H61M-S2p
cpu: i5-3470
Ram: 4GB kingston ValueRam + 4GB G.Skill = 8GB.. ram works in dual channel.
HDD: WD Blue 1TB
GPU: Sapphire HD 7870XT 2GB
case: Thermaltake commander MS-III
1- since I bought a new PSU my GPU is acting differently (GPU fan isn't spinning on startup, it doesn't spin on idle unless GPU is above a certain temp around 38-40c) this wasn't happening with my old PSU. I don't know if a PSU could do that to a GPU fan?.
2- I feel that my PSU cables get short easily, sometimes when I put the case on its side and move around inside it PC won't power up, no sign of any life. I have to organize the PSU cables somehow so pc can power up again.
3- it happened couple of times that my GPU won't post after taking the case out, I had to re-plug the 6 pins connectors so it can post again, and once when I did that pc returned to issue number 2 again not powering up, I had to organize the cables again and so on..
4- it happened once that after re-seating a ram stick pc powered on but no beep & no post.. I had to Re-plug the 24 pins connectors and 4 pins connectors so pc can power on again normally.
I don't know but I feel that my new PSU is very sensitive somehow, a little playing around inside the case and it get shorted and have issues like I mentioned above.
my specs:
mobo: Gigabyte H61M-S2p
cpu: i5-3470
Ram: 4GB kingston ValueRam + 4GB G.Skill = 8GB.. ram works in dual channel.
HDD: WD Blue 1TB
GPU: Sapphire HD 7870XT 2GB
case: Thermaltake commander MS-III