Hard drives frying
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The_Other_One
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I CAN say they are bad because they are. If you read my post you'd see that my final new one also died in my friend's computer. I gave it to him shink wrapped and all, never used it in my comp... I've had various older maxtor drives as well...
This Seagate has been working great for over a year now, and it was used when I got it!
I have some western Digital drives too... I've not had as many problems with the drives actually dying like with maxtor, but I have had some issues with them not showing up after the power went out or soemthing causing the computer to shut off incorrectly...
This Seagate has been working great for over a year now, and it was used when I got it!
I have some western Digital drives too... I've not had as many problems with the drives actually dying like with maxtor, but I have had some issues with them not showing up after the power went out or soemthing causing the computer to shut off incorrectly...
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Hi,
I'll try to change the PSU. I mean about 20 quid? I'd rather do that than risk damaging another drive... and maybe other components too (the soundcard is funny recently though too... but I think I had the problem before I switched PSU. It just doesn't have a good connection with the PCI i think...
More news now: This one is definetly going... Turning it on, I ran a search and it clicked, something you could hear over music, and everything froze... i restarted and as it got to the partition select screen, it clicked again and froze (hard drive light staying on all the time). I restarted once more, and it couldn't find a drive...
I shut it off, and pushed the IDE cable on the motherboard incase there was a lose connection, and started it up again, and it did :S I don't understand this hehe
To tell the truth, I'm not sure how hot there getting... I'm only running off one fan though, the CPU one.. but the motherboard stil stays around 26 degrees C...
Thanks for the advice
*KaGe*
I'll try to change the PSU. I mean about 20 quid? I'd rather do that than risk damaging another drive... and maybe other components too (the soundcard is funny recently though too... but I think I had the problem before I switched PSU. It just doesn't have a good connection with the PCI i think...
More news now: This one is definetly going... Turning it on, I ran a search and it clicked, something you could hear over music, and everything froze... i restarted and as it got to the partition select screen, it clicked again and froze (hard drive light staying on all the time). I restarted once more, and it couldn't find a drive...
I shut it off, and pushed the IDE cable on the motherboard incase there was a lose connection, and started it up again, and it did :S I don't understand this hehe
To tell the truth, I'm not sure how hot there getting... I'm only running off one fan though, the CPU one.. but the motherboard stil stays around 26 degrees C...
Thanks for the advice
*KaGe*
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A P/S couldn't hurt... Might you have the monitoring stuff to see what volts the PS is putting out? Or a volton meter to check it...?
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No I don't really...unless its in the bios
I am going to change the PSU though, get a new hard drive, and make this a second PC to the new one...
taking out graphics card to put in new one, and sound (Use old Geforce 2 MX 400, and onboard sound, wont be used for games)
With the new parts for the PC, I am getting a new case as well which has good cooling, and includes a PSU. One made by XG called Sidewinder, most probably:
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/cases/other/cases/xg/sidew/
plus a new hard drive (guarrantee), so should be sorted
My mum keeps on saying about the computer taking over our lives, and how it causes so much trouble, so hopefully after this update, everything will be fine...
Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it
*KaGe*
I am going to change the PSU though, get a new hard drive, and make this a second PC to the new one...
taking out graphics card to put in new one, and sound (Use old Geforce 2 MX 400, and onboard sound, wont be used for games
)With the new parts for the PC, I am getting a new case as well which has good cooling, and includes a PSU. One made by XG called Sidewinder, most probably:
http://www.viperlair.com/reviews/cases/other/cases/xg/sidew/
plus a new hard drive (guarrantee), so should be sorted
My mum keeps on saying about the computer taking over our lives, and how it causes so much trouble, so hopefully after this update, everything will be fine...
Thanks for all the help, I appreciate it
*KaGe*
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