Of power supplies and their cabling...

[pax]

I think this is worth a thread. I used a PCIE to sata cable from another Power Supply by mistake that set a sata cable on fire. The HD died of course. Mind you its not something that happened later in the night it happened immediately. But you never know.

Moral of the story is I have too many power supplies and have been sloppy swapping them out. Make sure you use the new cabling that came with a new PS always.

[mizzer]

Ooof! Sorry mate. That's a tough go.
Glad you didn't burn the place down.

[andino]

I take a silver sharpie and put the month and year that I get a PSU on the PSU and then it the cables don't have distinct markings I do the same on the PSU manual. I keep the manual in the same PSU bag that I have my extra cords in for the very reason that you posted above.

I'm not a fan of stuff blowing up.

Seriously though, they should standardize this stuff for this EXACT reason. It's a shame that different PSUs made by the exact same company (I'm looking at you Corsairs!!!) have different pinouts.... WTF!

[Lazy8s]

I take a silver sharpie and put the month and year that I get a PSU on the PSU and then it the cables don't have distinct markings I do the same on the PSU manual. I keep the manual in the same PSU bag that I have my extra cords in for the very reason that you posted above.

I'm not a fan of stuff blowing up.

A little due diligence goes a long way I’ve never had multiple units laying around, but I can see where I could easily make the same mistake.

[pax]

I did find that some cables had some markings on them one called type 4 and the other with no markings on it... both came from corsair ps's tho so I thought them fine. But one was a new 750w the other an old 850w... Pretty sure the one marked type 4 is the recently bought 750 one because I had one cable running on it already connected to a hd and dvd drive.

I shouldve sent the 850 to recycling because its well over 10 years old. So another booboo on my part there having it laying around.

[andino]

I had to go that route because of the number of computers I have in the house. Each of the 5 kiddos has a PC, I had a few HTPCs, I have 2 servers, and I have my PC.

I also have all the motherboard boxes and the spare parts, case parts, and cooler parts in a ziplock bag in each box. Had each kiddo write their name on the box as they were helping me to build their computers.

A little bit of organization saves a lot of time...

[Trunks0]

I take a silver sharpie and put the month and year that I get a PSU on the PSU and then it the cables don't have distinct markings I do the same on the PSU manual. I keep the manual in the same PSU bag that I have my extra cords in for the very reason that you posted above.

I'm not a fan of stuff blowing up.

Seriously though, they should standardize this stuff for this EXACT reason. It's a shame that different PSUs made by the exact same company (I'm looking at you Corsairs!!!) have different pinouts.... WTF!

Yeah it's extremely lame. Doesn't help that most of the companies don't make there own stuff. Corsair use's a couple of different OEM's, as do most others.

But even if your dealing with Seasonic, who does make their own stuiff, I think it's still an issue.

[andino]

What is the point of changing the Pinout other than to force people to buy another PSU?