Crack and then a burning smell

[aidanjt]

Of course he could just short the PSU and test the rails with a multimeter before attempting to fry new hardware.

[alexander]

Hello all.

Thank you for all your support.

My Corsair 520W PSU arrived yesterday along with a replacement X600 PCI-E Card.

I can say that the computer is working ABSOLUTELY fine and the Seasonic PSU did not take out any other hardware.

I am now trying to RMA the 7900GS card to XFX.

But I am wondering if one trusted Hexus chap would be willing to do me a favour?

Could anyone test the PSU with what ever equipment you need? If anyone can, I can send it off to them. And if it actually turns out to be ok, I will sell it on Ebay and then they can send it off to the buyer, obviously I would pay for postage costs and maybe they can get a few pounds extra if it works?

If anyone wouldn't mind please post here.

Thanks for all your help!

[Blitzen]

Oh ****,

I just tried connecting the PSU back up, I switched it on and everything started spinning like normal, next thing I know I have visible sparks of burning metal coming out!!

I "think" they were from the graphics card but it could have been from underneath it on the motherboard. There were orange sparks which drifted slowly down and alot of smoke.

This is definately not good. So is it the PSU, motherboard or graphics card?

The PSU does spin fine now.

I'm in deep ****.

Pleae dont take offence but are you really that stupid to try it again knowing its knackered.
Sorry fella but you deserve your rig to go up in smoke !!!!!

[alexander]

Well I am very lucky and it only screwed the graphics card up!

I am using it now. (read above post)

[GoNz0]

bloody hell i thought you had blown it up again for a minute then..

[peterb]

Most PSU's (and particularly good ones) have protection on the outputs so if the output voltage exceeds a certain limit, the thing shuts down. It is unlikely that the PSU is this case has failed, but to test it you will need some form of load connected to it (switched mode PSU's won't always start under no load conditions) and a multimeter to check the output rails.

Scan sell a PSU tester, but I don't know how effective it is. It would be prudent to test the PSU before using it again, but I think it unlikely that it has suffered any damage as a result of the apparant failure of the capacitor on the graphics card.