Hard Drive Failure!! Help!!!

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Hi Guys,

Just upgraded my system from

Previous: i7 920, Asus PT6-SE, 6gb XMS Corair,250gb Samsung 830 SSD, 2X Spinpoint F3 1TB, 2 X Sapphire 58050's, PSU 750w Powercool,

To : i5 4690k O/C to 4.2ghz, MSI Gaming7, 16GB Kingston Hiper X, 1X MSI 290X Lightning, With Previous PSU,

Now Ive been experiencing problems, First 1 of my F3's Failed, on Spin-up time, at first i thought it just failed due to age of the hard drive, 4 years.
Then i was experiencing a minor graphics hiccup where i would be playing dragon age, Ultra settings, some of the textures would turn artifac pink then instantly after that my monitor would dissconnect then reconnect within a second.

At this point i thought it was my power supply, Got my trusty voltage meter on one of the ends of the 12v rail and it was reading underload in game at 11.4v. Now i thought at this point i would change my psu from the Powercool to a decent Corasair 750w modular, thinking the 12v rail must be failing.

Swapped over to the corsair 750w, Turned everything on. Perfect. rails reading at 12.06v under load in dragonage.

Was sitting watching a film on the sofa, come back to my pc, coming back to a windows alert saying my other F3 was failing!

Now is this damage was caused due to lack of voltage on the previous PSU? Only thing thats wrong with them the spin-up time has failed,
Took the first F3 that failed out of my PC and it sounds like the arm is resting on the platters making a friction noise.

What do you guys think? have you come across an issue like this?

Thanks :P
 
Oh and my lasting F3 is still in my pc powered up. saying its about to fail,

Could this be caused by spikes from the old psu damaging the PCB boards on the hard drives?


Ta
 
I think ive come across a few issues with Samsung f3 drives on z87/97 chipset

idk what the issue is but they would play up

any third party sata ports? non intel ones? try on those if you can

still have old motherboard to test hdd's with?
 
Hi Wazza,

Nope no third party ports... i could see if theres any diff on the old motherboard... would do you think thats caused it? PSU prob? or Sata/chipset side?

Ta
 
Tried to flash drives. It requires to Put the samsung F3 as port 1. as i have a msi gaming 7, port 1 is m.2 slot. flame! seems like im gunna just buy a new drive as its 4 years old. i could get it flashed in the future with a friends system....
Thanks for the help Wazza:)

Happy new year

Stefan.
 
I've never owned a motherboard with an m.2 slot, so this is armchair advice..

Does the BIOS let you disable the m.2 slot? The pc 'may' see the next SATA port as port 1 when you reboot after disabling it.
 
wazza300 said:
I think ive come across a few issues with Samsung f3 drives on z87/97 chipset
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Funnily enough, I've just plonked a 3 year old F3 500G into my Z87 based everyday use pc & the disk app in linux mint says its about to fail. Not that there's anything important on it, but thanks for posting that on here anyway. :)
 
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