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Recent content by gio99
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Installed new drives and they went up in smoke
Well it took me about 3 weeks to get the guts to try to install the new drives. I got new harddrive power connectors, test the PSU to make sure it was giving out the right voltage and installed the new drives. They worked like a charm. No sparks or smoke this time. I suspect I might have had...- gio99
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Installed new drives and they went up in smoke
Thank you. I even looked up how to use a the probes just in case. (http://www.ochardware.com/articles/psuvolt/psuvolt2.html) I do have an electrical engineering degree but I've had my fair share of mistakes. And I definately do not want to learn the hard way on this project, to much valuable...- gio99
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Installed new drives and they went up in smoke
Just received the new hard drives will follow your advice and test the connector before installing the drives. I will let you know in the next day or two what the results where. Smoke or no smoke.- gio99
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Installed new drives and they went up in smoke
I have a Systemax RAID server with a 460 watts power supply. I currently have one 80GB SATA drive connected to the motherboard and two additional SATA drives (300GB each)connected to a raid card running raid 1. I was installing two additional (SATA 750GB each). I installed the two drives and...- gio99
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