killed 3 psu with 1 harddrive. WTF?????????

[illectric]

K, computer just died on me. took a brand new psu and tried it with just the mother board and harddrive, now thats not working. Then took it to a friends to try and now theirs wont boot up. What the f##$? Wont get nothing, not even a post.

 

[Basil007]

Nice problem. Sounds like a headache! Take it to your computor shop and get them to check it. Sound like an electrical problen to me and something for the experts to look at.

 

[franky77]

I take it you can't boot into safemode then? can you?

 

[paparazi]

OK! my bet is the original PSU popped and took out the hard drive in such a way that it is now dead shorting to ground.
So then you connected the new PSU upto the dead hard drive and because of the dead short blew that one up as well.
This is an extremely common problem with cheap no name PSU's and the reason why PC professionals will always use branded quality power supply units.
Quality PSU's also have more advanced failsafe circuitry that in the event of failure very rarely damages other hardware.
Enermax, Fortron, Vantec, Zalmam, Antec etc
Martin

Replying helps further our knowledge, without comment leaves us wondering.

 

[etarhan]

If you inspect the HD controller card very closely, you will probably see some nice craters on the larger ICs. This means that they are zapped.

This also means that your HD is also zapped. You may be lucky to find an exact model which has mechanical problems and not any electrical ones, and you may save your data to a new HD using the card from that drive.

Good Luck,
Engin

 

[diogenes10]

illectric
I followed basil007's advice after the first replacement psu blew up in exactly your situation. Harddrive + other stuff was bad too.

etarhan
my shop had somebody that was actually able to troubleshoot and repair the circuit board and get the drive up that way.
I was lucky.