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melted sata connector, fire, psu, low quality, thermaltake
These power supplies are only fail easily but are unsafe
I had a SATA power connector melt/light up - destroying my hard drive/data/motherboard (asus)
I sent the PSU and motherboard to Thermaltake after telling them what happened - i did not trust them - after they tested it they said my "PSU was on 220volts" which was a lie. They just offered me money to buy another motherboard - which was 200 -I refused.
My vendor was D&H - they too did not pull the PSUs off the shelf.
Here is more information:
PSU -TT-450NL1NH-1
Connector:
Damage to hard drive ST3500418AS (ST4500 Series Seagate)
Thermaltake PSU fires are not exactly uncommon:
This person - also had the exact same damage I had:
http://hardforum.com/archive/index.php/t-1726933.html
So I was gaming and noticed a light from the inside of my case. It was fire. The wonderful smell of burnt plastic for the next hour. I turned the system off, disconnected the DVD Rom and pulled it out. The rest of the system works fine. I did not use a sata power cable but a 4 pin adapter. Is it likely to be the DVD Rom or might my power supply be dying? Could a loose connection have crossed wires?
Original poster jiminator goes on says "PSU is a thermaltake tr2 rx 850W. my sata drive is on the same cluster, also using an adapter. guess time to back up. have to find my voltmeter to test...."
"My Thermaltake Toughpower 850W power supply caught fire this morning after being on for a few minutes this morning.
I determined that it was the PCI-Express lines to the graphics card. I had just put in a replacement card for my 4890 which I put in my son's PC.
The new card is a GeForce 260 Maxcore 55 OC.
Was it a fluke that I just put in a new card and had this problem or does the 260 216 OC really take that much more power?
I used the correct 6 pin connectors with the Thermaltake. It did work for a 15 minutes before it (the power supply, not the card) caught fire.
Anyway, I replaced the Thermaltake with a 750W Power and Cooling Silencer 650W. I also replaced the Geforce 260 216 Maxcore 55 OC at the same time as I had just bought it that day.
Could it have been the other 260?
I was in Windows (Vista 64bit Ultimate) when it caught fire. Is there a record in my PC of this event that could give me helpful information.
Also, is there anything else I should be looking for since this incident?"
