Help me narrow this problem down ...

[Growlingfish]

I made a thread a while back about the way the CPU fan on my PC was cutting out irregularly and how my PC lost one of my hard drives whenever I bypassed the CPU fan controller. After a day or so these problems seemed to disappear and I pretty much forgot about it.

Recently my PC again seems to be losing the HD every now and then after a period of operation. Very rarely the HD will not be found while booting. Now, if it hadn't been for the problems with the CPU fan I would just assume that the HD is past it (it is about 3 years old now and has been heavily used as my OS/apps drive), but I guess there could also be issues with power? My specs are in my sig, and I believe that PSU should easily be enough if working properly.

My Q: what is the best way to test the fitness of my HDs and PSU?

 

[Deleted member 329]

could be the motherboard, fan, or hard drive... hell it could even be the psu or ram..... sorry i know i just listed the parts of the entire computer

 

[xirokx]

although your psu is 550w it could be something to do with the rails...thats why the cpu cooler just stops or cuts out randomly...

I would think about trying a new different well known psu....something like an antec 500psu neo modular or the enermax's...

 

[Nomisf]

It MIGHT be an issue with the BIOS , if the fan control is playing up and causing to stop , and also not recognising the HDD. Maybe *shrugs* just a suggestion - try flashing it.

Rgds,
Nomisf

 

[steve258]

I'd first try a different HDD tbh.

 

[Growlingfish]

I was planning on buying a couple of 7200.10 SATAs to replace the two old IDEs that are in anyway, but I really want to rule out a problem with the PSU as I'm not exactly flush with cash at the moment.