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Hard Drive Keeps Dying?

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Daedro

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Hey,

I'd appreciate any help with this. You don't need to read all this, I'd just like to know why my hard drive keeps dying.

Western Digital Cavier 250GB IDE-ATA
ASUS A8N SLI-Premium
eVGA GeForce 7900 GT
"noname" Power Supply
Soundblaster 5.1 Live! (old)
Windows XP Pro SP2 Gold

Well, I just built a new computer about a month ago. I was using an old hdd. The hdd started to become loud, and eventually made clicking sounds and froze after a month of using it. I had assumed this was due to me playing a game with low memory, so it was always using virtual memory. Plus it was a few years old. I upgraded my memory a week before it died completely.

I just got this new Western Digital Cavier 250GB IDE-ATA hard drive. It worked great for 12 hours straight. I turn it off and go to sleep. The next morning I get a "Boot Disk Failure" error and the bios doesn't recognize it's existance. I returned it for a replacement today. I install windows, and try to install nForce drivers again, and half way during the install the hard drive makes a click sound and the computer restarts. I get back to windows and install the nForce drivers this time. I restart, and again, I get a "Boot Disk Failure" error and it isn't in the bios.

This is the only drive hooked up. It's set to master (or single).

I've got one of those problem motherboards, could that be it? Maybe the bios settings? I setup my bios, removing all RAID/SATA options, and enabling the rest. I didn't know what to have on other than what I read in the manual.

I've also got some less-recognized power supply that doesn't meet my hardwares requirements. It's 350 V, instead of 450 V, but the local computer shop that sold it to me insisted that it's "pure power" and always works for them. He also says my hard drive dying couldn't be because of the power supply, because if the power supply was the problem it wouldn't even start up.

Could it be my power bar or wall socket? I've had a few power supplies die on me in the past.

Thank you,
 
Daedro said:
"noname" Power Supply

I've also got some less-recognized power supply that doesn't meet my hardwares requirements. It's 350 V, instead of 450 V, but the local computer shop that sold it to me insisted that it's "pure power" and always works for them. He also says my hard drive dying couldn't be because of the power supply, because if the power supply was the problem it wouldn't even start up.
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Start right here. What's the actual manufacturer name? Have you checked the voltages using a multimeter?

 
^^^ what happy mage said. I'd slap the hell out of those computer techs for ignorance. Bad powers supplies don't always make a system unbootable, if the voltages are close enough to spec it can still boot and cause all kinds of wierd problems.
 
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