Weird power-fan-hd problem

[redhate]

Ok, heres how I had it setup.

3 sunon 80mm case fans. 1 160gig sata maxtor dimond max 9 hd. 1 fan controller controlling two fans.

I decided I had to many cables showing so I wanted to hide some in the back of the mobo (other side of the case). I got everything situated, the hd was on its own 12v power chain and the fans were on another. When I booted I had a data read error. So I rebooted, windows came up but extreamly slow. I ran HDTach and I was getting like a max read of 1mb/s yes 1. I rebooted and took the fans off. It was back to normal. I rebooted again with 1 fan hooked up, same problem again...slow as a snail. I had 4 fans hooked up before. I have only 3 now. I have since removed the fan controller and still have the same probs. It works fine and dandy if I unplug all the fans. Thanks in advance.

btw I have a antec smartpower 400watt. Model sl400.

 

[micker377]

I also use an Antec smartpower and it has a couple of four wire power connectors for drives. It also has two power connectors (two wire) that are used for cooling fans. Do you have any of these mixed up?

 

[redhate]

My fans have 4 wire connectors (12v) and it has worked fine. Not sure if thats the prob.

 

[micker377]

Sorry, I wasn't clear: the power leads from the psu has two four wire plugs (standard plugs), but only 2 wires in them. The others have four wires.

 

[redhate]

My power supply has 3- 4 wire plugs x 3 (3 sets of 3 plugs). The fans are running off of one 3 set of plugs (or were), the hd has its own seperate, and the cdroms run off of the other 3 set. This is not a big deal now since im watercooling, I was thinking about it for weeks before this happened, this was just a good reason to take the plunge. But this proves to me that the fans did help. I have my system overclocked from a 2.0 to 2.2 and it has locked up about 10 times since the fans have been cut off. Thanks for the replys