Hey all,
I installed a new video card last night (it's an ATI HD3870, from an ATI Radeon X1600XT). After moving things around (the size difference is considerable), I had major issues with my OS hard drive. I'm sure you're all familiar with the "click of death" hard drives make. It was making that, but not constantly like most hard drives that are bad do. There is a very real possiblity that my PSU isn't big enough to handle my system (3 HD's, 1 optical drive, the video card, 3 fans, audio card, PCI USB card) and it's like a 450W or less.
I would occasionally be able to boot into the OS on the OS disk, so I decided to bring it to work where I have an external enclosure for 3.5" HD's. The enclosure has a separate power supply, and I had no issues reading from it for the entire 2+ hours it was being imaged. There wasn't a single click either.
Is it possible that the low power caused the HD to "turn off" while the rest of the PC was on?
Thanks,
Danny
I installed a new video card last night (it's an ATI HD3870, from an ATI Radeon X1600XT). After moving things around (the size difference is considerable), I had major issues with my OS hard drive. I'm sure you're all familiar with the "click of death" hard drives make. It was making that, but not constantly like most hard drives that are bad do. There is a very real possiblity that my PSU isn't big enough to handle my system (3 HD's, 1 optical drive, the video card, 3 fans, audio card, PCI USB card) and it's like a 450W or less.
I would occasionally be able to boot into the OS on the OS disk, so I decided to bring it to work where I have an external enclosure for 3.5" HD's. The enclosure has a separate power supply, and I had no issues reading from it for the entire 2+ hours it was being imaged. There wasn't a single click either.
Is it possible that the low power caused the HD to "turn off" while the rest of the PC was on?
Thanks,
Danny