Looking for suggestions as to what might have caused this:
Primary PC in my signature was working fine, put it into Hibernate one morning, went to work, came home later that day, turned it on, lights, LEDs, fans, all indicate that it is starting normally, but my monitors don't turn on, and no windows start-up sound either. I restart, same thing. After much fiddling, including replacing CMOS battery, I replace the video card and I can see that it boots and stops at the RAID controller BIOS, telling me I have a bad HDD. So the video card, and a HDD died at the same time? I replace the bad drive, and a day later another shows up as dead. I replace that and few days later a 3rd drive reports SMART errors and is effectively dead.
Now I've got replacement drives (western digital RMA process rocks BTW) but I'm afraid to put them back in, as I believe that either my power supply, or my motherboard is somehow frying my components. Anyone ever encounter multiple simultaneous HW failures like this before? Any suggestions? I'm leaning toward replacing the Power Supply, but I really have no idea if that is actually the propblem.
Primary PC in my signature was working fine, put it into Hibernate one morning, went to work, came home later that day, turned it on, lights, LEDs, fans, all indicate that it is starting normally, but my monitors don't turn on, and no windows start-up sound either. I restart, same thing. After much fiddling, including replacing CMOS battery, I replace the video card and I can see that it boots and stops at the RAID controller BIOS, telling me I have a bad HDD. So the video card, and a HDD died at the same time? I replace the bad drive, and a day later another shows up as dead. I replace that and few days later a 3rd drive reports SMART errors and is effectively dead.
Now I've got replacement drives (western digital RMA process rocks BTW) but I'm afraid to put them back in, as I believe that either my power supply, or my motherboard is somehow frying my components. Anyone ever encounter multiple simultaneous HW failures like this before? Any suggestions? I'm leaning toward replacing the Power Supply, but I really have no idea if that is actually the propblem.