You will not believe this, I swear on my late fathers grave this is true, the Toughpower 850 my mate bought was DOA!!!
Went down today to build the system and when it came to power up, the mobo lit up and the LCD back panel but the PSU would not fire up, no fans spinning, no CPU fan, no hard disks, nothing! Pulled out the 24pin connector and tried to jump start it by shorting the grey/green pins and heard a 'tick' each time I tried from the PSU as though the fan was starting to spin then stopped!
The PSU he took out of his old system is an Enermax 450, so I've took both of these PSU's and tried them on my PC. The Toughpower has a splittable 24pin connector so I split it to 20pin and just plugged that into my mobo and tried to power up the PC, nothing! Tried the Enermax by just plugging the 20pin connector into the mobo and the CPU fan spins up as does the northbridge fan, so it looks like the Toughpower is DEAD!!, so it's an RMA for it tomorrow.
Problem is now, the Kandalf case he has does not look like it could house an Enermax Galaxy 850 PSU (as this is the one he wanted in the first place) as they are over 220mm long I think, my PC Power and Cooling PSU would fit so I'm going to lend him that and use his Enermax in my PC until he gets another one!
To top that off it took me 4 hours to setup a Belkin wireless mimo router on an acer laptop because after pissing about with various settings I found out it would only work on channel 11 in the router
