m3ta1head
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So I turned on my PC (specs in sig) this afternoon and walked away to make a cup of coffee. Came back a couple of minutes later to the strong smell of an electrical fire - to my complete shock the 4pin molex to SATA power adapter connected to one of my data drives was completely lit up. Also to my surprise, the PSU did not automatically shut down as it should have after detecting a short circuit. I pulled the power and blew the fire out, and here's the damage:
The culprit was obviously that molex adapter - luckily I caught it within a minute or so of it going up in flames so I was able to minimize collateral damage...still, at the very least it looks like the controller board on that hard drive is toast. The SSD directly above the drive also burned a bit but it looks to have survived the ordeal. The odd thing is that that hard drive has been connected up with that molex adapter for nearly 5 years now (I built this system at the end of 2011) - very odd that it failed after so much time. You guys reckon it's worth trying to plug in the hard drive to see if it still works, or should I look into swapping the controller board out?
The culprit was obviously that molex adapter - luckily I caught it within a minute or so of it going up in flames so I was able to minimize collateral damage...still, at the very least it looks like the controller board on that hard drive is toast. The SSD directly above the drive also burned a bit but it looks to have survived the ordeal. The odd thing is that that hard drive has been connected up with that molex adapter for nearly 5 years now (I built this system at the end of 2011) - very odd that it failed after so much time. You guys reckon it's worth trying to plug in the hard drive to see if it still works, or should I look into swapping the controller board out?