God, smite me now.

So I just got my brand new corair 750 watt from newegg today, and was very excited to get it running, so I went about and plugged it all in in my brand-spanking new computer, woo hoo, yeah? Remember that video that corsair made ''corsair PSU's, guaranteed not to dramatically blow up?'' well, this is probably user error, but the power switch on the back was in the on setting, and I forgot to look and check that, so I take the power cable coming from my wall, and it barely touches the plug for the corsair when *crack* and a flash of light, and now I'm out $120. And I was really looking forward to overclocking that CPU, which I won't dare do on my current 430 watt antec. I guess I'm just putting this up as a warning to always make sure your PSU is off when you connect it to your plugin. I will certainly see if I can return it, though I suspect not, and will buy a new one anyways.God, smite me now.
This is why pc gaming is 100000000x more frustrating the consoles >:(God, smite me now.
Sad. Maybe an electrician can repair your PSU.
It looks like you're a victim of static electricity. There were times when I foolishly forgot to turn the switch off, but it didnt do anything. Perhaps, try to return it. It could be defective or something. It shouldnt really go kaboom like that even if you had the switch on, although it could be user error, but I highly doubt it.
[QUOTE=''Helbrec'']This is why pc gaming is 100000000x more frustrating the consoles >:([/QUOTE] Unfortunately, this is true. I've run in to at least 50 problems already or more and I barely had my new PC for a month. As much as I love to buy games on the PC, as opposed to buying the console version, I am paranoid out of my mind because of so many problems heading my way.
Never had any of these problems.
Dont feel too bad. I had both my Rosewill xtreme 750 and my 9800 gx2 shipped to me with a short in them. It took me 2 months of shipping back and forth til i finally got my rig working.
Why do people try to scare the living crap out of me all the time?I am building my new PC tomorrow and It will be using a Corsair 650 PSU... Paid $100 for it.It better not blow up on me.I've been reading lots of problems latly with similar hardware that I will be using.$1,300 and 2 months research in this system... It best not give me issues.
Go to the Corsair forums, I am sure you can get a replacement.
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oh dear. ooooohh dear. I just connected the old PSU to check to see if anything else got fried in the blast, and the compy doesn't give any signs of starting. I only plugged in the power to the vital places, (left out the 4 case fans) but that shouldn't make any difference. I think I killed a motherboard. which would make this 2 motherboards I have had to return trying to get this cursed build running. I'm going to go insane about returns in all likelyhood, so if you see on the news, minnesota man throws computer from top of empire state building, you'll know that another part died on me.
I prob have the same PSU as you, except that didn't happen to me luckily. Hope you'll be able to contact Corsair for a replacement
Honestly, I've never seen a PSU do that, whether in the off or the on position. Was it in a surge protector and such too? That just sounds... really really odd, especially other components dying in the computer too.
Thanks for the heads up.
[QUOTE=''BelAir1'']Never had any of these problems.[/QUOTE]

Me neither.
Make sure you always ground yourself ........Prior to removing any of the components from their packaging, you'll want to take the precaution of grounding yourself by touching a large, metal object like a table base, filing cabinet, or your PC's case-whatever's nearby-in order to discharge any static electricity you may be carrying with you. Static electricity can be harmful to PC components. Some folks prefer to use an anti-static wristband in order to keep themselves grounded.
[QUOTE=''DieselCat18'']Make sure you always ground yourself ........Prior to removing any of the components from their packaging, you'll want to take the precaution of grounding yourself by touching a large, metal object like a table base, filing cabinet, or your PC's case-whatever's nearby-in order to discharge any static electricity you may be carrying with you. Static electricity can be harmful to PC components. Some folks prefer to use an anti-static wristband in order to keep themselves grounded. [/QUOTE]yeah, no, I was grounded fine, I just forgot to switch the PSU to off before plugging it in, and it exploded. that doesn't make too much sense, but that's how it went down.
Sounds like a bad PSU or a bad brand of PSU.I've done that with my 750 Quad dozens of times and it's never had that sort of complication.
More like lack of common sense.
as much as i hate my Dell XPS 720, it hasn't had any problems, ever :P

but im getting a custom build Q3 2009, now im paranoid about everything
gonna check EVERYTHING i get over and over again, lol

gonna have my cousin and friend over, so they can check it over again aswell :P