I just bought 2 WD640AAKS drives and added them to my system last night. I had a 150gb and 74gb raptor and removed the 74gb one to use in another machine. I basically took one of the corsair sata/4pin connectors and hooked it up to all three drives (2 sata power connectors and 1 4pin one). After I booted I got the "DISK BOOT FAILURE" error after posting. I then tried each drive and they all seemed to be completely dead. They made no spin up noise, weren't recognized by BIOS. I even tried them on another system and all of them failed. I tried my old 74gb raptor alone and it seemed to work okay.
So my question is did I just overload my PSU by running the 3 drives at once plus whatever else I have in my system? Was it putting all 3 drives on one power connector? Is my PSU still any good? (I post ok, just no HD/OS now). Do I need a new PSU?
On an aside, my PSU says it can support up to 8 SATA powered devices. But all the SATA connectors hook up to the PSU using a square looking 4 pin connector and the PSU only has 2 of those, and 1 has to go to the PCI-E vid card. So I only get 2 SATA connectors off the other one. Maybe I'm not making sense there tho
So my question is did I just overload my PSU by running the 3 drives at once plus whatever else I have in my system? Was it putting all 3 drives on one power connector? Is my PSU still any good? (I post ok, just no HD/OS now). Do I need a new PSU?
On an aside, my PSU says it can support up to 8 SATA powered devices. But all the SATA connectors hook up to the PSU using a square looking 4 pin connector and the PSU only has 2 of those, and 1 has to go to the PCI-E vid card. So I only get 2 SATA connectors off the other one. Maybe I'm not making sense there tho
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