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Is it possible for a PSU to ruin hard drives? Please help.

J

Jhill

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I've had 2 80 gig hard drives fail over the last 3 months. One was a western digital and one was a maxtor. Now when I access my slave drive (120 gig maxtor) It started making a quit grinding sound. I've ruled out bad luck as the cause at this point.

I ran hardware monitor in my bios on my K7S5A and my +12v is 12.096 and -12v is 11.3.93. Is the -12v normal here?

Could it be anything other that my PSU causing this? Come to think of it my motherboard died twice in the first year I had this PSU also. So maybe it fried my motherboard also? Myu cd rom drives seem to be fine though. (they don't get used nearly as much as my hard drive though)

Any thoughts?

Thanks for any opinions.
 
and the psu is..?I'd definitely would remove/replace the psu in your equation so as to narrow down the culprit...have a Shuttle ..37GT ..very picky..seems a 300w Apollo makes it happier than a 400w Compusa one..
 
Originally posted by: ScrapSilicon
and the psu is..?I'd definitely would remove/replace the psu in your equation so as to narrow down the culprit...have a Shuttle ..37GT ..very picky..seems a 300w Apollo makes it happier than a 400w Compusa one..
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The PSU is a 340 Enlight that came with a case from newegg.
 
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