kdchaos Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 Built this fantastic computer, had it up and running all of 2 weeks and all of a sudden, hard drive failure. Replaced hard drive, it was running for a whole day or so - and started having issues booting comp up - rebooting and then bad sectors in hard drive again. I've been told that it could be my power supply causing all these hard drive crashes.....anyone help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 9, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 9, 2008 If the drive is working, and you are just getting bad sectors on the drive, then I would suspect some other issue. If the drive is dead, and does not get recognized or even spin up, then the PSU may have played some role in that. We do have over-voltage and over-current protection circuits built into the PSU, so if there were too much power delivered to the HDD then the PSU should shut itself down to prevent any damage, however there are many instances where people have inserted the molex connector upside down, and fried their HDD. Have you tried using Seagate's diagnostic tools to see if you can isolate the problems and possibly recover the bad sectors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdchaos Posted October 9, 2008 Author Share Posted October 9, 2008 I did...and drive is not working...2 hard drives have failed, for no apparent reasoning. Tried Seagates tools and it failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 10, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 10, 2008 Do the drives spin up at all when you boot the system, or are they totally dead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdchaos Posted October 12, 2008 Author Share Posted October 12, 2008 Drives are booting up, just after a day or so, the drive slowly dies is the best way to put it...says bad sectors, hit f1 to continue booting etc. I have the third hard drive ready to install, but i don't want to install another hard drive and have it mess up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 13, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 13, 2008 If you would like to have the PSU replaced, then please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Be sure to check the box that says “I've already spoken to Technical Support and/or RAM Guy.” This should at least rule out the PSU as a potential cause for these problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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