Tendrils Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 So a few months ago I RMA'd a corsair HX 850 for burning up 2 hard drives and an optical drive. They refunded me for my parts and allegedly sent me a new power supply. I bought a SSD drive instead of a HDD after receiving my "new power supply." I could only afford a 120 GB SSD at the time and it has worked fine. After months of having to uninstall and reinstall programs due to my small SSD I decided to buy another HDD. Ordered a 1TB Seagate from Newegg, installed it as soon as it arrived and seemed DOA. So I started the RMA process on that and decided to just go to the BX and buy a WD Green 2TB because I didn't want to wait any longer. Low and behold as soon as I start my PC up I smell the HDD burning up. Didn't recognize the drive or spin up at all. I am now suspecting I was sent the exact same power supply back, or HX 850s are just a POS. Either way I'm furious as I keep having to deal with RMA BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tendrils Posted September 6, 2014 Author Share Posted September 6, 2014 Also I had bought another optical drive, that seemed DOA but also think this new power supply killed that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees jonnyguru Posted September 9, 2014 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 9, 2014 Well... they don't send the same PSUs back to people when they do an RMA, so that's not it. And... you're the only one that's having these issues so I don't think it's an HX850 POS issue. Motherboard? Or perhaps you have a short somewhere? When you RMAd the first PSU, did you send back all of the cables or are you still using the same cable set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tendrils Posted September 10, 2014 Author Share Posted September 10, 2014 Using the cables that came with the new psu. Why would it be a motherboard issue if the psu burns up the hdd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees jonnyguru Posted September 10, 2014 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 10, 2014 Just throwing things out there. Clearly you have a problem that's outside the realm of normal. The data cable to/from the motherboard should only have data and no power, but perhaps there's a short somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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