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My Seagate 80GB SATA is melting!!!

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DragonFire

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I was installing my new NEO2 and FX-55 the other day and while I had everything out I noticed this on my Seagate....

I have no idea how long its been like or why the drive still seems to work. Does anyone know what its purpose is and why it did what it did?

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Wow, you are SOOOO lucky it's still working. You had best backup your data ASAP and get it RMAd while/if it's in warranty.
 
Damn, that's a scary pic. What's the model number? I just bought a Seagate 200GB and my friend bought a 120GB, but both PATA.7 models, and we use them as ext. HDs. They warm up real good even w/o HD activity.
 
Whats stupid is the drive is only about a year old but I got lucky with the warranty, it doesnt expire intill March 05. I'd still like to know what casued it.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
Damn, that's a scary pic. What's the model number? I just bought a Seagate 200GB and my friend bought a 120GB, but both PATA.7 models, and we use them as ext. HDs. They warm up real good even w/o HD activity.
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Model is ST380013AS

Whats funny is its my bootdrive. I'm using it right now, loads CSS/HL2 and everything else just find. Tho I think its the cause of my computer rebooting once I login to XP at FSB 260Mhz+
 
It looks like the result of an electrical short (most likely) or a rather large power surge, to me. Do you have any loose wires in your case? Been trying to volt mod your hard drive? 😉
 
Possibly a poor quality PSU, but then I'd have thought it would have got to more sensitive components first?

I dunno.

Maybe your FSB o/cing affects it unless you have a PCI lock. No idea. That's weird. And I love Barracuda's.
 
I have a new Antec Newpower 480W and before that it was an Thermaltake 420W. Why didnt it short anything else out? Why didn't it short out my 120GB seagate ata drive?

As for the FSB doing it, I have a pci lock so that cant be it.
 
Hi, The picture is not very clear, but that appears to be a surface mounted electrolytic capacitor. A bad power supply is not very likely to have caused that. The cap is used for a power filter. Looks like it was defective, shorted, got hot and blew up. Not too unusual for electrolitics. Power supply would probably have caused more than one to blow and not just on the drive. The drive may be usable (?) but if in waranty should be replaced. If not it might be a good idea to replace it anyway. Jim
 
Originally posted by: DragonFire
Originally posted by: Baked
Damn, that's a scary pic. What's the model number? I just bought a Seagate 200GB and my friend bought a 120GB, but both PATA.7 models, and we use them as ext. HDs. They warm up real good even w/o HD activity.
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Model is ST380013AS

Whats funny is its my bootdrive. I'm using it right now, loads CSS/HL2 and everything else just find. Tho I think its the cause of my computer rebooting once I login to XP at FSB 260Mhz+
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ghost the partition and burn it, or buy a new hard drive and restore it back onto the new one
 
unless the chip or whatever blew was defective, that has to be from a surge like others have said... either way it sucks, good luck with it 😛
 
Originally posted by: JimPhelpsMI
Hi, The picture is not very clear, but that appears to be a surface mounted electrolytic capacitor. A bad power supply is not very likely to have caused that. The cap is used for a power filter. Looks like it was defective, shorted, got hot and blew up. Not too unusual for electrolitics. Power supply would probably have caused more than one to blow and not just on the drive. The drive may be usable (?) but if in waranty should be replaced. If not it might be a good idea to replace it anyway. Jim
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Yeah, elecrolytic or tantalum. I had a tantalum capacitor go bad in a circuit I recently designed (hey, I'm new to designing circuits). The circuit was resting, SMD component side-down, on a piece of paper with laser-printed text on it. It's a circuit designed to increase voltage; well, it was reading as 34.5V exactly, but then dropped suddenly to 2.4V. I checked the parts - the one capacitor go so hot that it melted some of the laser printer toner to itself. Got a new one, put it on in the opposite direction, and all's well. Oops.

This capacitor might have been installed backwards, or else it was just bad, and snapped.
 
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