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PSU frying Flash Drives?

Nyxathid
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Hey,

 

I need some sort of help to why this happened, today I changed my gf's pc (mobo, ram and cpu) but something strange happened, I pluged the Network adapter (USB) and I heard a tiny click but I didnt make much of it, at this point the usb stick isnt blinking like it used to, thought it was bc of the USB drivers, since its a new cpu and mobo, but nope ... I tried others flash drives and those didnt work to.. so at this point in time the only thing working was the keybboard and mouse which is connected to the back usb ports, so any clue to why this happened ? is the power supplie going bad ? its a Corsair CX600 80+ bronze (tho its a 4-5 year unit).

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Is the front panel USB (where I assume you plugged in the things that got burned out) conected properly inside?  Like, not plugged into a firewire header or something that runs at 30v? :P  They are physically identical iirc so it wouldn't be inconceivable. 

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29 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Is the front panel USB (where I assume you plugged in the things that got burned out) conected properly inside?  Like, not plugged into a firewire header or something that runs at 30v? :P  They are physically identical iirc so it wouldn't be inconceivable. 

Erm I dont know ... What I rebember it was a blue conector and 2 other conectors, i pluged into the blue one first and then the other ones while the pc was plug in :/

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2 minutes ago, Nyxathid said:

Erm I dont know ... What I rebember it was a blue conector and 2 other conectors, i pluged into the blue one first and then the other ones while the pc was plug in :/

Did it say "IEEE 1394" or something like that beside it?  Also, I would advise against doing anything like that while it's running.

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

Did it say "IEEE 1394" or something like that beside it?  Also, I would advise against doing anything like that while it's running.

hm .. nope, it said something like usb 2, usb 3, its a OEM board .. so I dont have a manual or anything to check :/

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Just now, Nyxathid said:

hm .. nope, it said something like usb 2, usb 3, its a OEM board .. so I dont have a manual or anything to check :/

oh, ok, that's good :P 

I would be tempted to stick a multimeter on the power pins and see what's going on then

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9 minutes ago, Nyxathid said:

Fack... I don't have one :/ nor acess to one, anyway to see it via HWmonitor?

HWmonitor and any software that detects voltage isn't the best, you can buy a multimeter for under £20 it's certainly worth the investment. How many drives have you fried? If it's just one maybe you just got unlucky.

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Just now, spat55 said:

HWmonitor and any software that detects voltage isn't the best, you can buy a multimeter for under £20 it's certainly worth the investment. How many drives have you fried? If it's just one maybe you just got unlucky.

3 :/ One 12GB Flash Drive and 2 usb network pens :/

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If you can test the power pins with a multimeter you can at least tell if they're delivering 5 v or something else, or if perhaps it's delivering power over the data pins or something else messed up like that

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