Impossible to jumpstart Silverstone DA800 watt??

[Zeus]

I've got a Silverstone Decathlon 800 watt that i tried to jumpstart (connecting the green wire with one of the black ones at the 24 pin atx connector) but the PSU acted wierd.
It gave a clicking sound and gave way too low Volts. (measured on a molex connector)

I even tried putting some load on by connecting 2 hhd's and some fans--no love.

Thinking that this psu was broken i returned it.

Now i've got a new one that i tried to jumpstart the same way and it's acting similar.

Completely clueless i decided to connect the psu to an old mobo, connected the power on headers and presto... it worked!

Is this normal for this type PSU? I've never experienced this before.

[SoulsCollective]

Yeah, this is fairly common. These PSUs need some load on them before they'll deign to power up - I keep around a crappy eBay TEC I use for the purpose.

[davidhammock200]

Yep, minimum power draw requirements, very common, especially in PSU's above 600W's.

Antec sells a small PSU tester cheap, so if you are doing to continue this type of low-load/no-load testing,
I recommend getting one.

Best Wishes,
Dave

[Zeus]

I guess you guys mean load on the ATX connector then?

I connected 2 HHD's and a number of fans to the molex connectors to no avail.

My Zeus 650w PSU starts by just connecting the green wire with one of the black ones.