Last night during a memtest86 run, I woke up because the power went out. I changed the fuse and found out I couldn't restart my PC. It turns out my Enermax Modu82+ died on me and took a fuse with it in the HFI-relay on the 10A circuit. I took it completely out of the case and tried to run it with a little PSU tester thingy I bought for that very purpose. No go. Not a sound or hickup or anything, just dead.
I've only had it since tuesday, so it's only been running for three days. The memtest had been running for several hours when it died. I just hope it didn't fry the mobo or other parts, but I don't have a spare PSU to check.
Anyway, my question:
Is there any chance it could have died because of voltage settings in the bios? The Rampage Formula mobo was overvolting the CPU PLL, FSB Termination and NB pretty heavily at Auto settings when I had the E8400 at 4.2GHz at 1.393 Vcore in the bios and the RAM at 1121 MHz at the rated 2.1V. So I manually lowered those voltages and everything seemed stable, but I wanted to make sure, hence the memtest running overnight.
The reason I ask is also partly that the voltages I manually set didn't correspond with the voltages the bios hardware monitor reported back. For example, when I set the CPU PLL to 1.50V, the bios reported it as 1.55V. The FSB Termination voltage I set to 1.3V and it reported 1.2V. It reported 1.11V when I set it to 1.20V. That just strikes me as weird it would report them so differently, so could that have anything to do with the PSU dying? Or was it simply a bad PSU? I don't want a repeat once I get the sucker replaced.
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