thermaltake lasted 4 days after recap

**yyonline** · 03-23-2010, 02:59 PM

Re: thermaltake lasted 4 days after recap

Originally posted by timarlop

When powered all fans spin very shortly and everything dies.

I'd start by checking for shorts. In my experience, this is common PSU behavior when something is shorted to ground - tries to turn on, but the protection shuts it back off. Check both the PSU and the motherboard. I frequently see broken USB ports from users forcing things in, the plastic housing breaks, and shorts the +5V in the USB port to the housing, which is ground. I'd imagine a short inside the PSU, whether it be from a loose screw, an accidental drip of solder, etc would show similar symptoms.

**ratdude747** · 03-23-2010, 04:44 PM

Re: thermaltake lasted 4 days after recap

hmm... the rating looks inflated, those heatsinks look a bit small.

try unplugging one device at a time (hard disks, optical, floppy...) and if that ain't it, then try a different psu, the short may be in the mobo.

**timarlop** · 03-24-2010, 09:08 AM

Re: thermaltake lasted 4 days after recap

The big C8 was peeled off a bit by the external case and was in contact with it.

After fixing that the contraption was powered and surprise... power and smoke too!

With my naked eye, I don't see burned components except the fine engineered plastic film used between components
who was next to a resistor (you can see it at the top of pic 2 between the trans and the heatsink)

Attempted to power it again , no smoke, 5.11V and 12.32V readings.

But after 1 minute of power it switchs off instantaneously.

Waste of time.

The time has come to buy not a thermaltake power supply

The problem is the PSU , I tested it with 2 working mbs.

My test includes only mb, cpu, 2 ram modules and 1 external case fan

thermaltake lasted 4 days after recap

thermaltake lasted 4 days after recap

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