I recently purchased an Corsair RM1000i to upgrade my PC in preparation for a new video card. It's a modular PSU. I hooked everything up (2 hdd, 1 blu ray, graphics card and 24 & 4 pin on motherboard) and tried to power it up. The power switch lit up yellow for a second or two, the case fan and PSU fan started to spool, and then nothing. Pushed the power button again, ditto. And again, same result. Checked connections and retried, same result. Unhooked and rehooked everything, same result. Checked connections again, same result. I reinstalled the original power supply and the machine booted right up, no issues. I contacted Corsair support. They recommended that I plug in the PSU with no cables hooked up and try the fan test switch. The fan spooled. The next test was to just hook up the 24 & 4 pins on the motherboard and the 6 pin to the GPU and see if it would boot at all. It did not, same result as above. Based on that and the previous testing I did, they said to send it back. I just received the replacement today and tried that last test (motherboard and gpu only). This produced the same result as the first PSU above. Again reinstalled the original PSU and it boots up like a champ. No way I would get two bad PSUs, so what am I missing? It's a power supply, so as long as the appropriate connectors are used (and it's hard to use incorrect ones) there shouldn't be any compatibility issues, right? Is there some basic step I am forgetting? Any other thoughts or suggestions?
The unit is an HP Pavilion with a i7 920 on a Pegatron motherboard.
Thanks!
The unit is an HP Pavilion with a i7 920 on a Pegatron motherboard.
Thanks!