Bad day…
I was moving my pc innards to a new case. Everything was fitted, powered up: smoke. From the front, so I suspected a hard drive. Checked I hadn’t made any shorts in the case etc. and tried again. This time Win 7 started up but THREE of the drives (five total) were not detected. Nor detected in BIOS. After switching around sata and power cables, and trying the drives in another PC and external HDD case, discovered the three drives had been damaged – none of these spin up nor are they detected. Freezer etc. methods will be tried on the drives to recover data, but Im also concerned about the cause so that I can prevent it from happening again. Suggestions? Power Supply or motherboard (both which worked fine prior to being moved over and work fine now with the surviving two drives in the new case)?
Specs
MB: Gigabyte P55-UD4PA (Rev 1.0) BIOS F14
CPU: i5 750
PSU: Antec ion2 460W
GPU: Sapphire Radeon HD4870
RAM: 2x2Gb G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3 1600 AND 2x2GB G.Skill Trident DDR3 1600
Surviving HDDs:
Samsung 1TB HD103SJ
Samsung 250GB SP2504C
Dead HDDs:
WD 750GB Caviar Green WD7500AACS
Seagate 1TB ST31000333AS
Samsung 250GB SP2504C
Any suggestions much appreciated.
Cheers,
Richard
