I’ve search the forum and search Google about burning and melting power cables.
But not sure if the problems of the other people are the same as mine.
So I’ve decided rock asked you guys with my first post along with my different suspicions on the problem.
Forgive me also for any forum rules I might have broken being a newbie in the forum.
Problem:
Burning power wires from PSU.
My suspected issues and the chronological steps how I arrived to the issues.
- PSU power cable burned right after tuning on unit for the first time.
It had six pins from the PSU pluging into 8 pin power socket on my GPU. I immediately turned it off at the sight of smoke. Hopefully didn’t damage anything.
- PSU power cable to SATA adapter to PCIE riser card.
Since the PCIE riser cards came with the adapters, I’m assuming it’s what I supposed to use. After powering up, everything lighted up, started running, however the connector between the SATA end of the power cable connecting to the SATA adapter was smoking. Immediately turned it off also. Started reading online and saw some post by others also on this forum that were stating to only use the red sockets in the PSU for PCIE riser cards.
- Used 8-pin red power ports on PSU going to 6-pin port on riser card. Also decided to use another cable just in case the one I was using was faulty.
Same thing, even worse. The power cable melted almost the whole wire.
This got me thinking, maybe I’m doing it all wrong. Because I decided to only connect 1 GPU first, because I wanted to setup the software first. Then once setup, install the rest of the GPUs (I have 5 more). And maybe there is just too much power in this 1600w PSU only going to 1 GPU for now. And it I connect all 6, maybe this will not happen. But is hesitant to do this because if this PSU already damaged my GPU, I fear I might damage 5 more.
Or maybe this is not really the issue and the issue is I decided to buy a cheaper PSU. I was going to get an EVGA but most were out of stock and got anxious to buy one. I opted to buy this cheaper unknown PSU JK Tek and was thinking, how bad could it be?
Hopefully I didn’t burn anything else.
Also is POST (Power On Self Test beep) a thing of the past? I wasn’t getting any beeps either.
I got this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074Z2Y9FS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_YDjrAbT0BASCE
