Hi, as it says in the topic my new rig that I build a month ago just lost it's valued member, psu. Other components in this rig:
Asrock x570 phantom gaming 4
Rtx 2070
16gb vengeange lpx
M2, ssd, hdd and sound card
:edit: ryzen 5 3600
No overclocking at all.
What i find most perplexing is that psu worked fine for a month until it "blew". By blowing i mean it suddenly shot a spark and blew my junction box fuse (10A). Naturally I tried to recreate the scenario and isolate the problem. Once fuse was back on, just adding the socket to wall would blow the house fuse again. I removed cords from the psu and added it alone to wall socket which also blew my fuse. Thus I conclude that there may have been a short circuit and psu has likely died. Luckily no visible damages in the rest of the rig as of yet.
I am going to RMA the psu through the retailer, but remain worried if there is some other error than faulty psu possible. Since after all, it ran for 1 month without issue before failing. Of course, just hour earlier i had added my new electrically adjustable table to same socket as my computer. I just cannot see why this would cause the failure. Other thing to note, is that just before failing i noticed that my headphones were only giving sound from one side. Figuring the connection had loosened somehow i went to fasten it behind computer, literally at the same time as psu blew up. Talk about coincidence..? Once again i do not see why lose headphone would relate to psu shorting itself.
I made up kinda long story here but I wanted to ask your feelings on the matter. Could the fault still be outside psu and if I should take some precautions before trying the replacement unit. I was thinking of connecting components one by one starting from MB. Here is hoping my other components were not busted also.
Any comments help I am sure.