Have I killed it

Frozennova · 13 Feb 2010 at 16:54

I was just playing with a 12v led strip and was powering it off the hard drive power with a splitter and carelessly let a bare wire touch the metal shielding this is an xbox btw.
Since this the hard drive makes an awfully loud clicking and doesnt get recognised by the xbox nor a pc so the question is have i shorted it and killed the drive?

fordypaul · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:00

I would say if its not recognised by any device now, its terminal!

Frozennova · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:05

I thought as much quite lucky I already had a large drive to replace it with coming monday anyway so no media center till then

Cookeh · 13 Feb 2010 at 17:14

Looks like it /:
Why were you powering it off a hdd splitter anyway? :confused:

JonJ678 · 13 Feb 2010 at 18:39

More to the point, was your computer on, and the hard drive on, while you were messing around with the molex lead?

Shorting 12V to ground would have been irrelevant if only the psu was switched on (worst case scenario would be a blown fuse), but it sounds like you were using the computer at the same time, in which case the hard drive might be dead.

Frozennova · 13 Feb 2010 at 19:39

This is on an xbox not a pc but posted here because they are pc hardware (P3) based.
I was wiring up some internal case LEDs but there was no indication to postive or negative so I used a molex to fan adapter with the end chopped to check which was which and one of the wires slipped out of my fingers and touched the shielding

Essexraptor · 13 Feb 2010 at 19:40

frozennova said:
This is on an xbox not a pc but posted here because they are pc hardware (P3) based.
I was wiring up some internal case LEDs but there was no indication to postive or negative so I used a molex to fan adapter with the end chopped to check which was which and one of the wires slipped out of my fingers and touched the shielding

oops!

Cookeh · 13 Feb 2010 at 19:58

frozennova said:
This is on an xbox not a pc but posted here because they are pc hardware (P3) based.
I was wiring up some internal case LEDs but there was no indication to postive or negative so I used a molex to fan adapter with the end chopped to check which was which and one of the wires slipped out of my fingers and touched the shielding

Oops! indeed