asknights Posted November 6, 2010 Share Posted November 6, 2010 Hello, I hope this post finds every one well and I’m hoping someone can give me some advice for an annoying problem I have In July of this year I purchased a Corsair PSU 850HXUK as a replacement to another manufactures PSU that failed 2 months after the warranty. The 850HXUK and has worked flawlessly until about 3 weeks ago when on starting the system it started the post sequence then shut down. I managed to get the machine to boot after several attempts of pressing the on switch , each time the post would get further along, until it remained on, albeit with the a failed to post error message. Over a space of a few days the problem steadily worsened, taking longer to become stable. I suspected the PSU from the beginning so purchased a Digital PSU tester unfortunately this appeared to show all was fine with the PSU in as much the fan spun up and the readings all showed the correct values as far as I could tell, though the problem persisted. I then suspected the Motherboard so purchased a refurbished Striker extreme and rebuilt the system, unfortunately the exact same problem persisted. I then suspected the CPU may be at fault so acquired a dual core CPU to test, followed by a loan graphics card these also did not resolve the issue and out of desperation even changed the bios battery as I had heard that a discharged battery can cause problems, no joy. The strange thing is that once I get the machine to boot fully it stays stable it is only after I switch off and restart after few hours that the machine shuts down, also if I put the system to sleep the system restarts. So I am at a loss as to what could be causing this and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Thanking you advance. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 13, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 13, 2010 Request an RMA The only way to know for sure would be to test the PSU in a different system, but if you have already tried a different CPU and motherboard and still get similar problems, then I think its a good bet that replacing the PSU should resolve the problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asknights Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Thank you for the reply Ram Guy, I have rasied an RMA and the PSU is on its way back to the the Netherlands. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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