HDD playing up

blastman

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hey all,

I have 4 HDD in my pc at the mo.
1 - IDE
3 - SATA

the sata drives seem to come and go as they please when it comes to showing up in my computer.

I've had them all out and tried them a mates pc, they all worked fine and made no nasty noises or anything like that.

My issues is that sometimes i'll get 2 online and other times i'll get 3. They seem to take it in turns to fail.

I have 4 sata ports on the motherbaord and i've rotated them all round but can't seem to find any sort of a patten.

has this sort of thing happened to anyone else??
 
motherbaord - lanparty UT RDX200
PSU - bog standard 350w (think this might be my problem:rolleyes:)
CPU - AMD 64 2.2 x2
video - winfast PX7300 LE
RAM - 2g DDR2 PC2700

drives, ~(all currenly online and working)
1 sata - 40g ST340014as (barracuda)
1 sata - 200g WDC WD200fd (westen)
1 IDE - 40g 4D040H" (maxtor)

not currently on line
1 sata - 200g WD2000JD (westen)

I did have a over heating issue last week, but I've replaced the fan cooling the HDD's (tbh i did think this was the reason but the issue continues to persist.)
 
Hmm I dont think its the PSU not being powerfull enough, although is it a cheapo brand because it might be the case if so. On my old system I had 3x SATA drives, overclocked P4C 2.8 @3.35GHz, 7900GS, 3x, 2 sticks of mem 120mm cooling fans, 8 USB devices, 3 PCI cards and was fine on a 400W Nexus PSU.

On a rather old PSU I had, the molex connectors were a little loose as they got unplugged quite a lot for different systems/new drives/tidy cables. One of my drives kept "dissapearing" from windows/bios on some boot ups, I used some pliers to make the connections tighter and didn't have a problem with it after that. Are you using molex -> sata adapters? If not then its prob not the case.
 
it funny u say that as i'm running the IDE on molex as well as two other sata drives. (split connector turning one molex into two sata power leads)

I also have 5 case fans, a sound card and USB wireless mouse/keyboard sensor.

The molex that powers the two sata drives is kinda loose, one of the female pins had to be 'moded' by a knife a screwdriver the other day. and yes it is a cheap PSU.

ummm, new PSU me thinks.
 
Hmm. I wouldn't buy a new PSU as sods law says the problem will still occur. Do you have a spare PSU you could trial for a couple of days to see if it still plays up? It might be a good idea to atleast rule it out.
 
in an ideal world yes but sadly i don't.

I could check at work tomorrow for one floating around but i've got a feeling they'll be small little 250w thingys

I did think it was the motherbaord, but now i'm not so sure.

I reakon i'm going to take all the sata drive's out, (os installed on the IDE drive) and try them one at a time for a day or two, then rorate them, try them on all the ports avaible and see what happens.
 
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