my hard drive caught on fire

[dagz]

So i updated my bios and restarted my computer and i smelled some smoke. Thought it was the power supply so i changed it with another one and i notice flames coming out of the side of my hard drive! I took the hard drive out and see a little bit of the chip burnt. Think newegg will let me RMA this as an excuse for a bad HD?

 

[webguy330i]

wtf! I would presume so.

 

[w00t]

rofl yes i dont think hd should start on fire i woulda let it burn my whole comp so i could get a new one

 

[dagz]

I mean it couldnt of been the power supply or anything else right? This sucks =\ I want my money back!

Cool i will put it back in and make it burn then =)

j/k

 

[w00t]

i would do it with this comp no doubt. if everyone at these forums pay me one dollar once i reach 500 i will chucks this comp on the ground from a 2 story building and post it on the internet

 

[dagz]

man...

First it was a bad case because a light was broken, next a bad motherboard, next possibly bad memory and now my hd goes up in flames wtf is going on!

 

[piroroadkill]

Sounds like your PC is cursed. Burn the whole thing and buy a new rig.

Out of interest, what make of HDD?

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

What power supply, just out of curiosity?

 

[dagz]

http://www.newegg.com/app/view...=22-144-160&DEPA=0


my oh my, what nice specs right?

 

[DragonFire]

Originally posted by: piroroadkill
Sounds like your PC is cursed. Burn the whole thing and buy a new rig.

Out of interest, what make of HDD?

My guess is Seagate since I just noticed my 80GB SATA drive has burned one of the little black box things on the pcb. I dont think its a resistor because of its size? I dunno, its just barely hanging on now...

EDIT:
Posted at the same time! Man don't tell me its the WD Raptor! I just bought one on newegg to replace the seagate!

 

[DragonFire]

I'm wondering, were you cooling the drive in anyway?

 

[dagz]

There is a lot of fans in this case and the computer wasnt even on for that long!

 

[Baked]

No pics = lying attention whore.

 

[dagz]

ya that is correct it is baked!

The whole chip aint black, it caught on fire for like a second and like a half an inch of the chip is burnt.