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Motherboard and HD File Systems

KingFatty said:
Yes, even a bad cable could, and the motherboard has connectors/slots that can go bad.
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Good to know. I think either my motherboard or PSU is headed south for the winter and one of my hard drives, that was working perfectly fine, started throwing out file system errors. The disc checks out on extended SMART tests, so maybe the motherboard SATA channel is fried.
 
After I upgraded my HTPC a few years ago, I started getting strange blue screens, Windows Media Centre crashing and read/write errors on new HDs. Strangely the drives would check out ok under Seagate's SeaTools and the WD equivalent for the WD drive.

Turns out the South Bridge was overheating. There's no temperature sensor nor heatsink on this chip so although the CPU and NB were ok, the poor SB was cooking when things got busy due to inadequate airflow over that part of the motherboard in the cramped HTPC case.

So I improved cooling by adding a Arctic Cooling F12 temperature controlled 12cm case fan with the thermal diode placed near the SB and all the problems disappeared.
 
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