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Welp looks like my PSU kicked the bucket, and took my X99 motherboard with it. Hope the RAM is okay...because that is $500+ worth of it. RIP...?

  1. imreloadin

    imreloadin

    Oof

     

     

     

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  2. Spotty

    Spotty

    F.

    What PSU was it? Any guess as to what caused it to fail?

  3. -rascal-

    -rascal-

    @Spotty

    EVGA P2 850W.

     

    Not 100% sure, but power has been a little unstable (lights flickering/dimming, but no outage) due to heavy wind / snow in the last few days, so it could be that. My brother's system, router, my monitors, and printer are on the same circuit...and those were fine.

  4. Spotty

    Spotty

    Just had a read through the rest of your forum post. Does look like a dead PSU if its you tested in two other systems and it's not working.
    If you've tried that system with another PSU and it still doesn't boot, then as you've concluded in your thread it looks like the motherboard is dead as well.
     

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    EVGA P2 850W.

     

    Not 100% sure, but power has been a little unstable (lights flickering/dimming, but no outage) due to heavy wind / snow in the last few days, so it could be that. My brother's system, router, my monitors, and printer are on the same circuit...and those were fine.

    Was the system plugged in to a surge protector or directly in to the wall?

    If the lights were flickering & dimming during a storm the PSU might have suffered some sort of failure due to brown outs (not a full black out where the power is lost). AC voltage may have dropped too low for the unit to handle, though the EVGA P2 is a high end unit and should be able to protect itself fairly well against that sort of thing, or at the very least not take the motherboard with it when it goes... But I guess there's a threshold where any PSU will give up.

    To be honest I'm not really that educated when it comes to that sort of issue with brown outs and such, and I'm really just guessing so don't take what I said as gospel... Maybe @jonnyGURU might have some thoughts.

  5. -rascal-

    -rascal-

    @Spotty

    Yes, it is hooked up to a surge protector, but not a UPS.

     

    I'm going to see if I can get the CPU + Motherboard + RAM tested tomorrow...that is when the snowing stops, and not get snowed in (damn Polar Vortex finally hit us)

     

    I don't know, maybe @jonnyGURU might have some insight. Anyways, I'm going to start an RMA with EVGA tomorrow as well.

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