Throttle Jock Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Hello. I've had three hard drive failures in a month after installing my 850TX PSU. Is it possible that the power supply is overvolting the motherboard and causing these failures? Bad controller on motherboard? Or maybe I am overloading the power supply itself causing drives to fail? I find it hard to believe that three hard drives, one of which was just recently RMA'd to me and brand spanking new, could fail right away like this. My luck is bad but not that bad! So ramguy what would be your opinion? I have to assume it's one of these two compnents. Before I RMA one or both of them I want to get some feedback. My system is in my profile and I have had the system overclocked to 3.83 Ghz. I get the following message when trying to boot the system now. 0xc000000c and some text about hardware failure. Googling this message has steered me to these two possible issues. Any help would be appreciated, I'm at my wits end here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 According to the Corsair PSU Finder you're definitely over the limit of what the PSU can handle, and that's without the OC. Time to step it up a notch to a HX1000W :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Throttle Jock Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 Thanks for the reply Wired. I actually used Antec's PSU calculator when I planned my system and if you dial my specs into that, 850 watts is more than enough. But perhaps you're right, maybe I cheaped out a bit on the PSU, although I never had any symptoms of inefficient power in my system. Any more opinions anyone? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 15, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 15, 2009 Are the drives all on the same cable when they fail or are they failing across multiple SATA power cables? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Throttle Jock Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 Are the drives all on the same cable when they fail or are they failing across multiple SATA power cables? Thanks for the reply ram guy! They are failing across multiple sata cables. Two were boot drives storing the OS and one was strictly storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted June 16, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted June 16, 2009 I would not suspect that overloading the PSU would kill the hard drives, and the only other possibility would be either a problem with the motherboard or PSU. At this point I would suggest that we get the PSU replaced, just to be on the safe side and if the problems continue you may want to contact the motherboard manufacturer to see if they can help you rule out the board as a possible problem. To have the PSU replaced, 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.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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