So yes its been a bad day! I was just about to fire up the rig in my sig for some evening gaming when after standing infront of the machine for 30 seconds I realised it still hadnt POST'd at all. An hour of swearing and disbelief later and my process of elimination led me to my 500Gb Seagate system disk as having 100% died after only 6 months in service. Gutted by the possibility of loosing a LOT of important data (had been slack backing up and was on this weekends job lists) I decided that it may be a mobo fault so popped the case of my new flashy HTPC to check thge drive for signs of life. I plugged it in and fizz pop bang! The chips around the northbridge crackled and gave out a whole load of smoke. GUTTED! So the disk is knackered and so is the M2N SLI-DLX mobo but luckily eBuyer are taking them back up warranty as the mobo is 2 years and 49 weeks into its 3 year warranty (phew). Im getting a full £120 refund for it so im looking for a new mobo. My gaming rig has a M3A32-MVP DELUX and I dont know whether to get a new M4A79 and relegate the M3A32 to the HTPC or get a cheaper mobo for the HTPC and use the change to fund a new 750w corsair PSU as I think the 580w Hyper PSU in this rig was struggling with the 9950 Phenom, Ati 4870 and such. Could the over laden PSU have caused the drive death? Is there any chance the death of the HTPC board could have killed the CPU or mem/cards on the HTPC? Help, sob! Thanks, Dean.
Ouch, trial by fire. Hiper are a decent brand AFAIK (I hope so anyway, I bought a 450W unit about a month ago) and 580W isn't far off my 620W which is a huge overkill for my system.
oooo the 500GB seagate might not be dead, recently my 1tb seagate failed to boot, quick phone call to i365 and its currently in holland at seagates data recovery lab, all free of charge! some seagate drives have a bug in there firmware, which causes the firmware to brick itself to death, but all the data is perfectly fine! shame about the motherboard!
1365? Im interested! If the drive is still under warranty which it is, is there anyway to get you data recovered? There the odd download on there but mostly all legit stuff like websites Ive designed and personal documents etc Any advice on recovery options before sending it back to eBuyer tommorow very welcome!!!? Thanks, Dean.
I feel the same way, but many people do not. It seems (or used to be that) a lot of very vocal people had bad experiences. TBH, for a HTPC, I would recommend something from Seasonic; very high quality quiet PSUs. Ninja edit: the HDD died from your gaming rig, and your mobo died from your HTPC. Ouch! The recommendation still stands; Seasonic make really nice PSUs and TBH I think I'd want a bit more than 580W for that rig.
yeah data recovery at i365. I have a thread over in the tech support forum, about my on going pain. basically on tuesday my HDD bricked itself, i had a google and rather than getting an RMA from overclockers which would only result in a new HDD, i decided to look around on the seagate website, and found out about i365. Phoned there london office, which actually transfers you to the holland branch, wonders of technology! anyway explained my case, of whats going on and the guy said, pack it up and TNT will be there in the morning to collect. My case with them is still open, but he said 3-5 working days, he got it on thursday, so i hope to find good news soon! Worth the effort as the service is free if its just the firmware thats bricked. there force flashing mine. post your HDD serial number and i can try to help as much as i can.
