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If that is the case, do you think i need to worry about the other components of the system at this point?

Not that I could see/hear, but i'll double check tonight.

Ok thats a good point, I will do that before sending it to the reseller. Thanks

Hi all, I started buying parts for my first PC build last december, with the PSU and some ram being one of the first parts. It wasn't until January/February that I actually built my system, and it has been running great ever since. The PSU was a EVGA G2 750W SuperNova. However last thursday I was casually watching some YouTube videos when one of the circuit breakers in my house suddenly flipped. Since I had in the same room as my PC also the TV, DVD player, Fiber modem etc. (on a different wall socket and power board) I tried to turn things back on one at a time to see what caused it, or if it was just a power surge or something. When I turned power back onto the PC (not even hitting the power button, but just having PSU plugged in and switch to ON) - the breaker flipped again. I removed the PSU from the PC and plugged only the PSU into a wall socket in the garage, and used a circuit bridge that came with the PSU (completes the circuit making the PSU think the power button of PC has been pushed), and again it immediately flipped the breaker. I also had an old circuit tester and measuring in Ω across the PSU power plug Ω shows 0 (as if circuit completed). So to me, it looks as if I just got an unlucky unit and its short ciruiting for whatever reason. Since it is still within 1 year of buying I am returning the unit to the reseller that I bought it from, I haven't made any contact with EVGA on this yet. But I am worried if the reseller should ship me a new PSU, and I plug it in only to find the system is no longer working due to MB, or GPU or anything else being damaged. Do you think this is likely or possible? I'm curious to know what could have caused this? Is it possible a power surge somehow damaged the PSU? It is on a power board with (supposedly) surge protection, and the PSU itself lists a bunch of protections on the specs page of EVGA website (including OVP, UVP, OCP, OPP and SCP) In my experience (which admittedly is more mechanical in nature than electrical), if something is going to fail due to faulty unit, it will usually fail in the first few hours, not 8 months down the track, but heh, I don't know much about electronics. I should note that the unit wasn't dusty (ok there is always a little) but the case I have has some good filters (Phanteks Evolv ATX TG) and it hasn't really had time to accumulate a lot of dust. Humidity and temperature should be well within reason - since its winter here we had heatpump on a fair bit which takes any humidity out of the air. Funny thing is I ran my old pc with some no-brand chinese PSU for years and years without a problem, and the highly rated EVGA unit didn't last a year

Hmm ok. Oh well since last night I'm copying files over into externals lol so won't matter for long. Thanks for your help

For PC1 (old) there is no link speed listed under networkadapters properties (I assume you meant in device manager?) For PC2 (new) there is a tab called linkspeed, and lists 1Gbps Full Duplex - right now have internet ethernet cable plugged in and the PC-PC ethernet cables out though, dunno if that makes a difference.

I was copying everything, some files maybe a couple GB, but mostly small files, with plenty of video files of around 100mb or so in between. So a bit of everything really. I did try to use a normal cable as well after your post, and it made no difference. The transfer rate would start at 350kbps, and then stop at 0, then another burst, then stop again etc etc. However, I then tried to use a router in between (used 2 in case one had a better result than the other), and for both times, using a router would let me get transfer rates of 10-12mbps, still not blinding, but allowed me to transfer and check some stuff. I have a 2.5" external drive, so will use that I think, the problem there is the old computer has only USB 1 connections so the file transfer is 10-14mbps maximum. Really wish I could have solved this but I tried all things suggested online to no avail. Thanks anyway.

Still same although I got the permissions sorted by changing it in individual folders. Transfer rates around 170-350kbps. Wtf is going on here.

DYNAMIX 5M Cat5E UTP Cross Over - this is the cable I have here. Would I perhaps have better luck using normal ethernet cables and going thru a spare router?

Well, as for permissions, I think the problem is a bit deeper. See my first plan was to put the old HDD in my new computer, and just do a file transfer between drives. However i could never get the system to let it show up. Or rather it did, but the name of the drive was NTFS or something like that, and if I clicked on the drive it said it couldn't be accessed. Installing it back in my old computer, and it worked fine. THAT would be the ideal solution, if that would work Plan B was the ethernet crossover cable. And I thought you do need a crossover cable for pc-pc transfers? If I click on permissions for the old drive on PC1, it just lists USER, and I clicked full access. The other PC doesn't show up in the list of available locations/users - not sure if it should or not?

Its an old computer - don't know what I can do about the adapter being old at this stage... It is not thru a router, I just got an ethernet crossover cable, going from PC to PC. Set up a home group. The cable is brand new, but I can't see any writing on it that says CAT anything...

full disclaimer - i'm no expert, just something I was thinking about since i had a problem the other day with a HDD not showing up in a new system. Never did solve it as no one had any further advice to offer. quite different problem to yours I would say. But do check it, as when I installed a new SSD into my system I first had to assign it a drive letter to access it in windows. And yes that was after I had installed a fresh copy of windows on it...

Did you assign it a drive letter?

Oh and firewall is now turned off on both.

Oh and firewall is now turned off on both.