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Bonus for Patreon: Diagnosing a Faulty Power Supply (Patreon)

Published:

2021-09-30 14:47:27

Imported:

2021-10

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Well, attempting to diagnose it.

Hey everyone! Hope all is going well. We recently pushed the NZXT H510 Flow behind-the-scenes video to you as a Patreon exclusive (fun fact: initially typed "explosive" instead of "exclusive," but maybe that's because I'm about to write about a Gigabyte power supply).

Today, Patrick Stone looks at the Gigabyte Aorus power supply -- this one has actually been good to us for years and isn't the same as the GP series -- to try and diagnose its behavior. We had to pull this from a benchmark system because it was shutting down when under about 400W of load, despite being otherwise fine. This sounds like it could be a faulty OCP or something similar, and so Stone ran it through all the protection testing and some more.

It's mostly a fun way to show some of the tools we have available for extra diagnosis of hardware. We can't always find the answer, but we can at least quickly find out that we *won't find the answer* -- and this is important in troubleshooting. Sometimes, you just have to say, "we've done enough, time to move on," lest it becomes a huge time sink.

Enjoy!

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Attempting to Diagnose a Faulty PSU

In this video, we were unable to diagnose the problems with this power supply, but we wanted to show you some of our troubleshooting process using our lab equipment. It's a fun look at some of the things the tools enable us to do. We don't always find the problem, but we can rapidly determine, at least, if we'll be able to find the problem. That has value.