PSU Fried - Brand new HTPC (1 Viewer)

[martoq]

I recently built my HTPC. Not the first I have built and have been building for years. The PC was running great for 2 weeks. And then the other morning I came downstairs and the case power led was off. The lights on the PSU were on. I thought this was odd. I hit the case power button and nothing. I decided lets shut the PSU power off...which I did. I then turned the PSU back on and the power lights to the PSU came back on. I then hit the power button on the case and I heard the dreaded *POP* followed by the amazing smell off electrical burn. The PSU was fried, the burn odor definitely was coming from it.

I have several concerns at this point.

1. No vendor, not the PSU, not the reseller will warrenty me when this hardware is no more than 2 weeks old. What are my options? The reseller is Newegg whose customer support is typically great. But I have real concerns here based on this problem. They have warrentied my PSU which is fine and all but what if the PSU fried everything else? Am I out my 1000$ brand new htpc that I just built due to a faulty PSU?

2. What are the odd's the motherboard caused the PSU to fry? I am very concerned that when I hook my new PSU up to the system board, if the board was the root cause, it will pop this PSU as well. (Obviously I will have nothing else connected to it on initial reinstall)

I am very frustrated and concerned at this point that due to a faulty peice of hardware I am about to get burned out of my hard earned money. I figured I would come to the experts here for some good solid advice.

Here are the specs for my HTPC:

Silverstone GD01S-R ATX Case
Silverstone ST45NF 450w PSU
WD Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB HDD
Sony optiarc 24X DVD/CD RW
AMD Phenom II X3 710 2.6Ghz
MSI DKA790GX Motherboard
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250
Patriot Viper 4GB DDR2 1066 (2x2gb)


Thank you in advance for any help or advice anyone can lend.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

martoq

Hopefully to put your mind at rest a little bit, between myself and my friend Kevin, we have had 5 power supplies "pop" in the past, and there was no other damage, that's not saying it may not have effected other components, ie motherboard\cpu\memory, but until you plug the new psu in I would not worry to much about it

If another component needed to be rma, then the onus is on for one manufacturer to blame the other for the failure, this should not stop newegg from supplying replacements, the 2 relevant manufacturers should solve this between themselves and you will not lose out money wise.

hth

 

[martoq]

Man I hope your right. I will get the new one tomorrow and see what happens. I appreciate the response and will let you know how I make out. The one thing that concerned me a lot was the warranty that silverstone has for their PSU's. Particularly the line that says they are not responsible for any damage their PSU's may cause.

 

[martoq]

Looks like everything is safe, it was just the PSU that fried. I wonder why...I am still sketchy every time I hit the power button now. Guess time will tell.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Looks like everything is safe, it was just the PSU that fried. I wonder why...I am still sketchy every time I hit the power button now. Guess time will tell.

Most modern supplies have loads of safety features, so when they do go wrong, they only blow themselves up.

As I said forget it, it was just a duff psu in the first place.

 

[Frantid]

I had this happen with a big power spike/ lights dimmed in the house, etc. The PSU fried even through the powerstrip. Turned out I had a cheapie powerstrip with just the amp breaker on it. I've since bought a more expensive power strip. Hope it fries first, not the PSU. By the way, my power surge was a car hitting the electrical box down the street.