Help, Interference, Im kinda panicking

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Quark

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Hi, im having a little trouble i had hooked up an external HD to my comp it has big powerbrick and during the last time i hooked it up the power brick got a bit too close to the open PC case i noticed a few hours later, i believe the interference from the brick has affected the system its sluggish but still working sometimes stuff hangs a little. My question is : are my hard drives completely broken or do i just have to wait a while till something that mightve built up through the interference dissipates. Maybe leave it off for a while? Please help me out guys.

Quark
 
Well I have never heard of this happening before, but maybe you could try a defrag.
 
Its not fragmentation, i wish it were that easy, files load with a delay. Like the system halts for a second but then the file loads.

Im guessing the stupid powerbrick emitted an interference/magnetic field or something?
 
If it was a magnetic field, will a format fix it or are these drives done for?
 
Unless it's an incredibly poorly made/shitty power brick (for an external HDD, it shouldn't even be handling that much voltage or current), I don't think that's causing your trouble. Sounds like dying HDDs on their own, Windows rot....any number of symptoms.
 
I agree with movax. I doubt having the brick around your computer did anything to your computer. You might check how much your machine is paging to the hard drive.
 
The thing is, the second i removed the brick from next of it all the problems subsided and i was left with the sluggishness.
 
Quark said:
The thing is, the second i removed the brick from next of it all the problems subsided and i was left with the sluggishness.
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But wouldn't removing the brick also "remove" the external drive currently in that enclosure? I sense much USB1.1/2.0 lag or Firewire weirdness + some kind of paging weirdness too...
 
As said before, I don't think it's a magnetic interferance issue, if it was, I believe your drives would be toast, not slow. Assuming they are IDE drives, the damage magnetic interferance does is permenant. IDE drives have a servo track embedded into one of the platters, and that is what magnetic interferance causes problems with. If that track is ereased, your drives are done for good, not slow.
 
The problem isnt that the USB drive isnt working, its working flawlessly. Thank god for that, no data loss. Maybe the field wasnt strong enough to cause a complete breakdown, maybe it interefered with the ide cables or something?
 
then get a longer usb cable and move the external so that the brick isnt near your case, and do a defrag, sure you can format the drives but if you think your problem is magnetic, then this will rewrite everything and shoule fix that (though i doubt thats the problem if it is it should be your solution). If that doesnt work then try removing and unistaling the external b/c it seems thats when your problems started. If that does nothing for you, then copy evertying over to your external and format, and see what that gets you, what kind of drives are we talking about?
 
The data is completely backed up to the external drive so no worries there its just pissin me off that this happened, i suppose ill just build my new Conroe rig now (ordered it earlier actually) instead of in a few weeks. This PC has lasted me for 3 years (Athlon XP 2800).
If anyone has any other ideas or thoughts about my problem, post away, i would appreciate it.
 
it's not interference from the power brick.

You're saying, "when the brick is on, near the computer... with the USB drive attached, you get sluggish performance"

Try this, keep the drive on, but DONT plug the USB cord into the computer. If it was a problem with the power brick, you'd still have bad performance.


Data is stored digitally on a disk. ANY sort of magnetic interference would alter the magnetic poles of individual data bits on the disk. You would be left with CORRUPTION not slowdown.

Anecdotally, I hate USB HDs because they always ruin my system. Something about them just runs any computer I've ever used to hell.
 
I bought this one cause i dont like USB HDs either, its USB/eSata. I only bought it to get all my data off this old rig and on the new one im building. The Sluggishness is still there a little bit, its not hooked up now. If this computer can hold on for a few more days it'll be fine. Im buying a LONG eSata cable anyway just to make sure the brick wont be close to the new rig even though that one will most definitely be closed and not open on the side like this one has been for a while.

Upriver, the drives that are screwin around are actually drives ive had for a while so i suppose its not that far fetched that one of em is breakin down and thats causin problems, for now i just need the rig to hold on for a little bit longer ;)
 
Blue screen time, Kernel stack inpage error. I think its the drive my OS is on that is failing.
 
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