OP1000 won't start

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Litlratt

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Just received mine today. When trying to start the computer the fans and the start led light receive power but immediately shut off. OP requires a reset. Same result. Unplug everything but the 4 and 24 pin mb connectors. Same result. Hook up previous ps 4 and 24 pin connectors and the computer starts right up. This would indicate an internal prob with the OP. Don't want to attempt an RMA if there's another way of troubleshooting.
Any ideas?
 
Yes, good advice. I thought I might have done something when switching them. That's why I unplugged everything but the 2 mb connectors. Surely the short would have fried something by now, even if the current ps didn't have protection.
 
Check the board if something isn't making contact somewhere.
 
This is just the personality of the overload protection.

Happens. You need a different PSU, sorry.

Unless it's plain broken.
 
If there was something making contact, I would think that I'd be having issues with the old ps hooked up again.
 
Going by your sig, your old unit was a Topower built Raidmax... Topower doesn't do protection circuitry well at all. Wouldn't shock me much if it was failing to trip when it should have.
 
Litlratt said:
If there was something making contact, I would think that I'd be having issues with the old ps hooked up again.
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Ahh okay. Contact silverstone then, sounds like you might have a bad PSU.
 
For arguments sake, let's say that there is a short on the board and the Raidmax isn't tripping. Wouldn't the mb shut down or just fry?
I sent Silverstone an email but they haven't replied yet.
 
Depends. I can recall one occasion where a similar problem turned out to be Arctic Silver migrating underneath the CPU and getting into the pins. Could be a defective PSU too, but I'd pull the board out of the case to try it that way first.
 
Litlratt said:
For arguments sake, let's say that there is a short on the board and the Raidmax isn't tripping. Wouldn't the mb shut down or just fry?
I sent Silverstone an email but they haven't replied yet.
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It's because you don't have a shortcut :)

These things happen all the time. Some power flow on startup exceeds whatever the developers of one particular PSU took into account.
 
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