[Southwell]

Hi All,

I was building my new system last night and installed my Hiper power supply, finished it all went to turn it on and a big spark shot out the back and trips my homes circuit board, it's now completely dead. What would cause this? I plugged in my old PSU in my new system and it fires up perfectly

Was it my fault? or a bad PSU?

Cheers

 

[markuk3]

Hipers are not well known for there quality get a enermax or tagan .I have had the same trouble with a 480w version

 

[Korke]

My Hiper Type R 480w works perfectly. Maybe you just got a bad one

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[markuk3]

They do tend to fluctuate badly on the 12v rails causing instability issues

 

[Loki]

The latest Hiper 580 Type-R have been fixed and have rock solid 12v. rails

As for the Hiper 525, I had a Ultra-X do the same thing to me. Just RMA it back to the Vendor...

 

[Southwell]

Im running a 64 bit xp CPU, does it matter if i have all 24 pins plugged in or should i only have 20 plugged in?

 

[Loki]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Southwell Im running a 64 bit xp CPU, does it matter if i have all 24 pins plugged in or should i only have 20 plugged in?

You have to have all 24 pluged in or it wont boot up...

 

[timmay7]

thats just a bad unit...hiper is a good brand