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Hi everyone, I'm not even sure where to start.
About a month ago I opened my computer case to plug in an extra HD I had laying around to get some data off it. I plugged in the HD and booted the computer and got a non-system disk error. I was not trying to boot of this newly installed drive, I wanted to boot off my raptor like normal and just pull some data off this new drive. I figured the drive I plugged in must not be set to CS and the computer must be trying to boot off it (it had no OS installed, its just some random data files) so I fixed that but my computer still would not boot with that drive being plugged in. So I decided I'd try the drive on my work computer the next day. So, I unhooked the IDE and power cables from the drive and booted my computer back in its normal form.... however, it STILL wouldn't boot!! It was exactly like it was before I plugged in the HD. I did some testing and it turned out my Raptor died right then!! So apparently plugging in that HD I had laying around caused my Raptor to die. The computer had 3 HDs in it before I tried to temporarly add in this 4th one. I had a SATA Raptor, a SATA Seagate 300GB, and an IDE 80GB WD dirve in the machine. So, when I plugged in the new HD (making the 4th in the machine) the raptor died.
I have no idea what happened. I'm wondering if my power supply (430W Antec TruePower) somehow spiked when I added that 4th drive and perhpas that spike fried my Raptor. Is that possible? I also have 5 80mm fans in the case so I dont think it was ever getting too hot (Case is a 1080AMG). Anyway, I removed the raptor and formatted the 80GB drive and installed Win XP on it. So, after that horrible incident my computer now has 2 HDs in it. The 300GB SATA and the 80GB IDE, which now is my C drive with Windows. One interesting note. The powersupply fan is always on now. When I installed my x800xt a few months before this incident and booted the machine up the fan came on in the power supply. It may have been on before I put in that video card but it wasn't nearly so loud. After installing that video card my machine became MUCH louder so I assume my power supply is being taxed. But I didn't expect that plugging in one extra disk would cause all these problems.
So, the adventure might be over except since then I've been having all kinds of trouble in WoW. The game now locks up when i'm playing. The install is exactly the same as before (same UI addons and stuff) but now the game will just randomly lock up during play. The game will freeze for about 5 seconds and then the screen will turn black and after about 10 more seconds the monitor will go on standby (little orange light instead of green like normal). My computer is still powered up at this point but it is completly unresponsive. I have to hard reboot. This problem is SOOOOO frustrating. Also, I now have wierd graphical glitches in the game. I just randomly see wierd graphical lines or shapes on the screen for a split second every now and then. For instance, when cast a spell some of the effects might glitch out a little. Its very hard to explain but I might be able to fraps it if anyone would like to see what I mean. fyi, I did install all the newest drivers after my raptor died and I had to reinstall my system.
Now the real problem is that this all happened the weekend before the 1.9 patch so its impossible for me to know if the problems in WoW are related to the new patch or my hardware problems I had that weekend. After talking with one of my friend he suspects that I might have overloaded my power supply when I added that 4th drive and that maybe now its flakey. This seems like a reasonable idea but to be honest I have no idea how to tell if my power supply has issues. I can go into my bios and see the voltages on the cpu and ram and whatnot, but i'm not sure how to tell if they're wrong.
Man, its so annoying to have my computer be freaking out like this when it was rock solid for over a year
What do you guys think? Should I instead post this in the games area? This seemed like a better place. Man, I feel lost.
Specs:
DFI Lanparty UT nF3 250Gb mobo
AMD 64 3400+
1GB OCZ EL Platinum Rev 2 ddr 400 ram
x800xt
Onboard sound and nic
HDs mentinoned above.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marshall
About a month ago I opened my computer case to plug in an extra HD I had laying around to get some data off it. I plugged in the HD and booted the computer and got a non-system disk error. I was not trying to boot of this newly installed drive, I wanted to boot off my raptor like normal and just pull some data off this new drive. I figured the drive I plugged in must not be set to CS and the computer must be trying to boot off it (it had no OS installed, its just some random data files) so I fixed that but my computer still would not boot with that drive being plugged in. So I decided I'd try the drive on my work computer the next day. So, I unhooked the IDE and power cables from the drive and booted my computer back in its normal form.... however, it STILL wouldn't boot!! It was exactly like it was before I plugged in the HD. I did some testing and it turned out my Raptor died right then!! So apparently plugging in that HD I had laying around caused my Raptor to die. The computer had 3 HDs in it before I tried to temporarly add in this 4th one. I had a SATA Raptor, a SATA Seagate 300GB, and an IDE 80GB WD dirve in the machine. So, when I plugged in the new HD (making the 4th in the machine) the raptor died.
I have no idea what happened. I'm wondering if my power supply (430W Antec TruePower) somehow spiked when I added that 4th drive and perhpas that spike fried my Raptor. Is that possible? I also have 5 80mm fans in the case so I dont think it was ever getting too hot (Case is a 1080AMG). Anyway, I removed the raptor and formatted the 80GB drive and installed Win XP on it. So, after that horrible incident my computer now has 2 HDs in it. The 300GB SATA and the 80GB IDE, which now is my C drive with Windows. One interesting note. The powersupply fan is always on now. When I installed my x800xt a few months before this incident and booted the machine up the fan came on in the power supply. It may have been on before I put in that video card but it wasn't nearly so loud. After installing that video card my machine became MUCH louder so I assume my power supply is being taxed. But I didn't expect that plugging in one extra disk would cause all these problems.
So, the adventure might be over except since then I've been having all kinds of trouble in WoW. The game now locks up when i'm playing. The install is exactly the same as before (same UI addons and stuff) but now the game will just randomly lock up during play. The game will freeze for about 5 seconds and then the screen will turn black and after about 10 more seconds the monitor will go on standby (little orange light instead of green like normal). My computer is still powered up at this point but it is completly unresponsive. I have to hard reboot. This problem is SOOOOO frustrating. Also, I now have wierd graphical glitches in the game. I just randomly see wierd graphical lines or shapes on the screen for a split second every now and then. For instance, when cast a spell some of the effects might glitch out a little. Its very hard to explain but I might be able to fraps it if anyone would like to see what I mean. fyi, I did install all the newest drivers after my raptor died and I had to reinstall my system.
Now the real problem is that this all happened the weekend before the 1.9 patch so its impossible for me to know if the problems in WoW are related to the new patch or my hardware problems I had that weekend. After talking with one of my friend he suspects that I might have overloaded my power supply when I added that 4th drive and that maybe now its flakey. This seems like a reasonable idea but to be honest I have no idea how to tell if my power supply has issues. I can go into my bios and see the voltages on the cpu and ram and whatnot, but i'm not sure how to tell if they're wrong.
Man, its so annoying to have my computer be freaking out like this when it was rock solid for over a year
What do you guys think? Should I instead post this in the games area? This seemed like a better place. Man, I feel lost.
Specs:
DFI Lanparty UT nF3 250Gb mobo
AMD 64 3400+
1GB OCZ EL Platinum Rev 2 ddr 400 ram
x800xt
Onboard sound and nic
HDs mentinoned above.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Marshall