I ordered a Corsair SF600 off Amazon in October 2021. I didn’t install it right away so there was some dead time sitting in a box (I believe thats a bad thing) and also some dead time in a build that sat unpowered for about a year, but now after that miniITX being powered up for about a month doing a build for the upcoming DEFCON but today I couldn’t log onto proxmox on that miniITX build. Looked at the physical box and it looked to be idling, it wasn’t off nor boot looping, just couldn’t get into proxmox nor any of the VMs within.
Went to restart and it would start to boot, the CPU fan would ramp up then I’d hear a click and then it would boot again, a loop over and over.
Had an old dying PSU to try with so I unplugged everything but mobo and tired both the current and then the old stored away PSU it would loop too (but no click noise when it would cycle/reboot with the old stored away PSU).
So I tore out my 650watt from my ATX and now it will boot… so I’m assuming its safe to say its the PSU (both the current one and the old old one I just need to toss, it probably couldn’t even charge a phone at this point).
But I can’t help but wonder— its just shy of three years and its a pricey upscale SF600 Platinum PSU. Is this average? Normal? Or below average? Google says it has a 7 year warranty but this build needs to be up in about a week for DEFCON… facepalm.
I’d say that’s not normal. The last time I bought a power supply was in July of 2022, and a PSU is usually something I’ll try to carry over from past builds if I can. I did that in the franken-build backup server I put together with parts left over from the previous desktop machine. I had a weird issue with one string of SATA power cables being dead, but the PSU its self seems fine.
That is definitely not normal.
I’m surprised because great wall is one of the better power supply manufacturers.
This kind of brings up capacitor reforming though, maybe it could have helped?
I had my SF600 for 4 years now. 12 hours on every day in an SFF PC and never had an hiccup. Always been hooked to a pure sine UPS, but that should not be the reason why it has been living, knock on wood, for this long.
There was a recall on a range of serials three or more years ago, maybe yours was on the list and you missed it.
As everyone else said it’s not normal and you must contact Corsair to RMA it. My guess is that you’re gonna get a different SFX PSU or a credit towards Corsair product. They don’t make it anymore I think.
