- Dec 15, 2006
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This is in a secondary computer that I use in the garage. I went to turn it on this morning, heard some popping noises (for lack of a better word.) and then there was no boot drive to be found. In a few moments I started smelling the dreaded burnt electronics smell.
It will boot into the BIOS just fine but none of these drives are found. I powered it down and got into the computer. Upon examining the hard drives I see burnt marks on both. One is a 80GB Intel SSD and the other is a 320GB Seagate drive.
The PSU is an xClio 750 watt Great Power which I purchased because of a favorable review at Johnny Guru. It's a couple years old. Because it affected both drives it must be a failing PSU, correct? Like I said though, the computer still powers up into the BIOS just fine.
I must also add that this PSU was in my primary computer for a long time but was recently moved to the back up computer when I installed a Corsair AX850 into my main rig.
I reinstalled the garage computer's original PSU, a Thermaltake 500 watt, and used some hard drive I had laying around and everything seems fine.
But now I have a bad PSU, a bad SSD and a bad hard disk drive to contend with.
I'm surprised the power supply went bad and affected only the hard drives and nothing else. I guess I can consider myself lucky. I inspected all of the cables and can see absolutely no physical damage anywhere on the unit. Needless to say, I won't be using this PSU any longer even though it seems to have affected only one of the power output connectors.
Here's a photo of the damage, you can clearly see where the drives are burnt.
http://home.comcast.net/~lindermm/psuburn.jpg
Just sharing an experience, really no other reason to post. I think I have enough spare parts laying around to get this computer back to acceptable. I just need to find a speedy boot drive which I think I have.
It will boot into the BIOS just fine but none of these drives are found. I powered it down and got into the computer. Upon examining the hard drives I see burnt marks on both. One is a 80GB Intel SSD and the other is a 320GB Seagate drive.
The PSU is an xClio 750 watt Great Power which I purchased because of a favorable review at Johnny Guru. It's a couple years old. Because it affected both drives it must be a failing PSU, correct? Like I said though, the computer still powers up into the BIOS just fine.
I must also add that this PSU was in my primary computer for a long time but was recently moved to the back up computer when I installed a Corsair AX850 into my main rig.
I reinstalled the garage computer's original PSU, a Thermaltake 500 watt, and used some hard drive I had laying around and everything seems fine.
But now I have a bad PSU, a bad SSD and a bad hard disk drive to contend with.
I'm surprised the power supply went bad and affected only the hard drives and nothing else. I guess I can consider myself lucky. I inspected all of the cables and can see absolutely no physical damage anywhere on the unit. Needless to say, I won't be using this PSU any longer even though it seems to have affected only one of the power output connectors.
Here's a photo of the damage, you can clearly see where the drives are burnt.
http://home.comcast.net/~lindermm/psuburn.jpg
Just sharing an experience, really no other reason to post. I think I have enough spare parts laying around to get this computer back to acceptable. I just need to find a speedy boot drive which I think I have.
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