PSU making a clicking sound, PC wont turn on

[Bill_Bright]

Please consider that Bill is on my ignore list

LOL

And I am truly grateful for that too.

People are so easily triggered nowadays.

Ummm true. Yet being triggered suggests an emotional response and taking something personally. Nothing I said suggested that. Nor did I call anyone out by name with personal commentary.

So maybe folks should consider who has been triggered, and how they responded.

Majority of SFF cases

"Majority" of SFF cases? I don't think so. Not hard to see that almost all of these SFF cases have plenty of room for a switch, not to mention a SFF or even a standard size ATX PSU.

If you don't feel a master power switch is important for you, that is fine. But to declare them a "waste" for the majority? Nah! Sorry, but you don't speak for the majority of people out there.

 

[dirtyferret]

Lack of room? Nah! Unless you are talking about the SFF that use a power block like laptops, there is plenty of room. There are all kinds power switches with some that take up very little space.

CM did it to save a few pennies - which surely they didn't bother to pass along to the consumer.

It's pretty cramped in there from the pics I saw of it but it can also be they didn't want to pay Sysgration to retool a new housing.

Do I really need to explain obvious things? Draw some schematics or something? Please consider that Bill is on my ignore list and don't take the next words personally.
Majority of SFF cases have a PSU AC input away from reach, and the extension cable is used. So what's the point of having a switch in there?

Like Bill posted, some other brands do have them in their SFX units. It doesn't trigger me with or without them but obviously it was a design decision to not have them (due to cost, lack of space, lack of need or some combination)

 

[Vya Domus]

The "click" is from a relay, most PSUs have that clicking sound when they switch on or off.

It's hard to tell if there really was something wrong with it, disconnect everything from the PSU and then jumpstart it with a paperclip like so :

If it still turns off immediately then yeah it's probably dead, if not, could be something else.

 

[LethaR]

Do I really need to explain obvious things? Draw some schematics or something? Please consider that Bill is on my ignore list and don't take the next words personally.
Majority of SFF cases have a PSU AC input away from reach, and the extension cable is used. So what's the point of having a switch in there?

People are so easily triggered nowadays. If I wanted to argue (and the English not being native to me prevents me from doing that on a decent level), I could exploit that fact to oblivion.

"and the English not being native to me prevents me from doing that on a decent level": proceeds to write the most well writen and explained english reply in the history of humanity