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[Aqizzar]

More evidence that my building's wiring is fucked up: Today I was awoken at 7AM by the police, in response to a call from the 'panic button' in my apartment.  Yeah.

Anyway, I'm taking the GX 650 power supply back to Fry's, because it's clear at this point that the power supply itself is not the issue.  What is, I don't know, I'm afraid to even touch the thing for fear that it may still be recoverable but any more experimenting is going to destroy it completely.

I still need to get a short detector.

[eerr]

Do you have an OS properly installed on the drive?

[RedKing]

Yeah, if it's shutting down seconds after boot, that's typically a sign of either shorting or overheating. I had a system with a really shoddy heatsink that would thermal spike over 80C within 30 seconds of boot. System would shut down with a low-volume two-tone alarm.

Another system, I had the mobo touching the case too closely and it was grounding out. IIRC, that one would just die in seconds until I used brass spacers to move it off the backplane.