• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Recent content by dmcmillen

  1. D

    Help with 3 dead Hitachi drives

    Since everyone is trying to understand what happened, here it is: Initially the machine would not boot; power light would flicker on and then go out. Trouble shooting showed that the power supply was dead (probably one or more of the capacitors). When I replaced the power supply, the machine...
  2. D

    Help with 3 dead Hitachi drives

    No, motherboard was not affected. Only the 3 sata drives and a dvd drive on the same power cable went dead. And as I mentioned before, 2 ssd drives on the same cable were unaffected.
  3. D

    Help with 3 dead Hitachi drives

    I think the Corsair ps was one of the gold series; would have to look thru old paperwork. No new motherboard, only replaced the ps, bad ps cable, hard drives and dvd drive. Should have had the 30gb backed up externally, but in the all the years I've been doing this, I have never lost multiple...
  4. D

    Help with 3 dead Hitachi drives

    I had a Corsair 1000w power supply go bad and left me with 3 dead drives, (1) 3TB HGTS HDS723030ALA640, and (2) 2TB HGTS HDS723020ALA640 (as well as a DVD drive). By dead, I mean they won't spin up anywhere. I have replaced the power supply and drives and recovered all the critical data that...
See more
Back
Top