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    Enermax Infiniti is angry with me!

    Hi all,

    Posting here mostly just to rant, because noone I know outside the internet understands the joy and pain in equal measure that come from messing around with PC hardware.

    I just went to fit a new hard drive in my lovely self built amahi server and so turned it off in the first time in... a while. When I went to turn it on again, the PSU starting beeping at me and the LED on the back turned red (instead of the usual orange for standby and green for on). A quick google revealed this means the PSU is in "Protection mode" but unless something is shorting out usually means the PSU is dead.

    I wouldn't mind this, fine just replace the PSU, however despite building many PCs this server is the only one where I was really careful about the wiring, everything is nicely secured in various places, and everything is routed carefully behind the motherboard tray and its all very nice. (Having 11 hard drive caddies prewired for use even if only 4 were filled so far means this is pretty much a necessity!)

    Just a rant really, but as this is a forum I'll open the floor. Has anyone had an enermax PSU go like this? Reading around other forums suggests it inst that uncommon and it seems sometimes you can almost trick it into working again (just overiding the protection) although I don't think I want to mess around with something that could start a fire! Especially not in a machine thats on 24/7

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    Re: Enermax Infiniti is angry with me!

    Here is your chance to get a brand new 80 plus Silver or 80 plus Gold psu Try the Corsair or the XFX ones. Those ones are pretty sturdy.
    However, as far as I know, your psu has a reset button. Have you tried it? Have you tried running the unit by itself(shorting the 24 pin) ?

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    Re: Enermax Infiniti is angry with me!

    Not with an Enermax (which I haven't used) but yes, I've had failures or wobbly restarts after long-term uninterrupted use.

    Perhaps because I'm a more cautious type and it isn't my field of expertise, I'd bear in mind what protection means - and with that, would be trusting what it's telling me. That may be unnecessary, but I'd rather that it was known to be right and I felt safe.

    The only thing to add is as in life, stuff just happens (how eloquent!). You may indeed have done everything right - but there's a variable, a random event, a blip or something that will take over at some point no matter how careful or correct you were. It just happens (technically speaking!).

    Oh, and check the cables again!

    Now that's the voice of experience!

    Don't worry, I'm not suggesting you check the cables! It's another one of life's rules!

    I switched it on and...

    Oh, I didn't switch it on!
    I plugged the cable in and...

    Ah. No cable.
    More seriously, it looks as though you do at least have the option of resetting the supply. If you can't test it, surely a replacement is good for your peace of mind.

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