Alright, so to give you a little back-story: last week I purchased a new Radeon HD 5870. I replace my old Radeon HD 4650, and right away I'm impressed with how amazing RIFT looks on ultra settings. However, I notice that after a few hours, the fans in my case sound like they're fighting off Satan's army. I close all programs, and after 10-ish minutes, the fans go back to their normal hums.
I do a little poking around, and find that the issue seems to be two things:
(1) My current PSU is a 600W Rosewill PSU. I figure that the poor thing is just under too much of a workload with my setup.
(2) My cables were in such a mess than airflow must suck in my case.
Fast forward to today:
I plan on purchasing a Corsair HX 1000W PSU next month, since my funds are a little low right now. It's either buy food or buy the PSU, and my stomach won. Anyways, I picked up two more 120mm fans that I intended to put at the top of the case as exhaust fans. That brings my computer to three intake and three exhaust fans.
Next, I take out the new powerful GPU and put the old one back in, since it's not nearly the power-hog. Finally, I rearrange all the cables inside the case to help improve airflow.
Once everything is all finished and connected, I take my computer back into the office, plug everything in, and....nothing happens.
No power.
WTF?
I look down and see that my UPS is powered off, which is odd since it was working this morning just fine. Whatever, I turn it on, and I'm greeted with a red flashing light and an annoying buzzer from my UPS. Normally, this sound happens when the power goes off and I'm running off the UPS back-up battery. Please note, that NOTHING is plugged into the UPS right now, I'm just testing it.
To me, it sounds like my UPS somehow kicked the bucket. To be fair, I can't be too upset, since I've owned it for almost 5 years now.
Fine, whatever, my UPS is probably dead. It's technology, and sometimes it fails. So, I connect my computer directly to the wall outlet, and.....nothing. Again.
WTF?
It worked just fine before I powered everything off and disconnected everything. I made sure everything was connected again, so that's not it.
I'm stumped. And pissed, very, very pissed.