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Title: Tip: PSU cables from different manufacturers are DIFFERENT! Post by: yeti_alchemist on May 21, 2013, 02:43:51 AM Crap!
I wasn't paying attention when attaching an SATA power cable to the Corsair PSU and grabbed one that came with the Seasonic PSU. Apart from wire color they look alike: Corsair are all black, Seasonic are multi-colored. Unfortunately they are pinned differently and so I did some barbecuing when I powered on the machine. One SATA cable smoked (literally). One 32GB SSD HD is dead as far as I can tell. Motherboard seems OK so far. Oh well. It isn't a party unless something is broken. Title: Re: Tip: PSU cables from different manufacturers are DIFFERENT! Post by: sveetsnelda on May 21, 2013, 02:57:26 AM Yikes. :( I remember studying the cables I had laying around because I was afraid of this. I lost track of which cables went to which PSU and spent a few minutes with a meter before using them. :( RIP, little SSD. It probably took 12v to the face.
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