philo wrote:
On 05/06/2016 08:52 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
OG wrote:

Anyway, now I am wondering if the power supply was taken out.
It is a 600W CoolerMaster RS-500-PCAR.
Do these protect themselves or just melt down with the connector.
The cabling is hard ot get to since the PC is packed tight with 4 HHD
and two DVDs and a
few boards plugged into the motherboard.

IMO, 600w and cooling is not nearly enough for what you have that
machine doing.
This machine has a 750w p/s and sometimes it gets stressed.
2-4 hdds, 1-2 dvds, various cards, etc.
cpu fan, hdd fan, 2 bridge fans, ram fan, pwr sup fan, gpu fan, all set
to max.
Everything overclocked. 24" floor fan on the side of the case.
When the current p/s goes bad I'll get a 1 kw p/s.



The total power of the supply is irrelevant as to the connector that burned. The supply
only delivers what is called for.

More than likely the connector was not pushed in all the way, when the drive was installed.

Otherwise it was loose pins

Yea, I agree. Should have made that clear in my post.