Hi all,
I've made a few deplorable mistakes in the past year - the first was buying a Corsair CX750 power supply because of the reviews on Amazon, even though I've since read a lot of techy reviews that rip it apart (I'm quite techy myself, so should have known better).
I recently moved house, and when I've been gaming, the computer has been restarting itself randomly, so I thought it might be a problem with the wiring of the electrical sockets. Also temporarily disabled Asus's voltage protection feature in the BIOS, but still got the issue. I assumed it was too much of a coincidence that it was happening as soon as I moved house, to be the PSU, but I bought a socket tester, and all the sockets seem to be wired up fine. So came to the conclusion that the PSU has failed.
Earlier this week I bought a EVGA SuperNova P2 650W power supply, which is apparently a very high quality piece of kit. My problem has arisen because I made a nooby error - I forgot to replace the old SATA/peripheral power cable from the old PSU, and when I turned the computer on, one of my SSDs started smoking. Completely unplugged everything within seconds, but I'm guessing they are both short-circuited (even though only one was smoking for a couple of seconds). There is no external damage to any of the wiring or the connectors - I doubt from looking at the SSDs, you'd know there was anything wrong. But after connecting the correct cables up, I plugged in the SSD that hadn't started smoking (my Windows installation), and it just wasn't detected by the BIOS at all.
My question is: is there any way of saving the data on either of these SSDs? I have a back up of certain things, but there is a whole load of music on one of them that isn't currently backed up, which I would be gutted to lose. Would it be worth sending them off to a data recovery company, or is this a scenario in which I am screwed regardless? I've bought a USB 3.0 hard drive caddy which will be delivered tomorrow hopefully, but I'm basically clutching at straws with that. The real question is do I spend money attempting to get a professional to do it, or do I just accept the data loss and bury the SSDs in the garden?
Thanks in advance!
I've made a few deplorable mistakes in the past year - the first was buying a Corsair CX750 power supply because of the reviews on Amazon, even though I've since read a lot of techy reviews that rip it apart (I'm quite techy myself, so should have known better).
I recently moved house, and when I've been gaming, the computer has been restarting itself randomly, so I thought it might be a problem with the wiring of the electrical sockets. Also temporarily disabled Asus's voltage protection feature in the BIOS, but still got the issue. I assumed it was too much of a coincidence that it was happening as soon as I moved house, to be the PSU, but I bought a socket tester, and all the sockets seem to be wired up fine. So came to the conclusion that the PSU has failed.
Earlier this week I bought a EVGA SuperNova P2 650W power supply, which is apparently a very high quality piece of kit. My problem has arisen because I made a nooby error - I forgot to replace the old SATA/peripheral power cable from the old PSU, and when I turned the computer on, one of my SSDs started smoking. Completely unplugged everything within seconds, but I'm guessing they are both short-circuited (even though only one was smoking for a couple of seconds). There is no external damage to any of the wiring or the connectors - I doubt from looking at the SSDs, you'd know there was anything wrong. But after connecting the correct cables up, I plugged in the SSD that hadn't started smoking (my Windows installation), and it just wasn't detected by the BIOS at all.
My question is: is there any way of saving the data on either of these SSDs? I have a back up of certain things, but there is a whole load of music on one of them that isn't currently backed up, which I would be gutted to lose. Would it be worth sending them off to a data recovery company, or is this a scenario in which I am screwed regardless? I've bought a USB 3.0 hard drive caddy which will be delivered tomorrow hopefully, but I'm basically clutching at straws with that. The real question is do I spend money attempting to get a professional to do it, or do I just accept the data loss and bury the SSDs in the garden?
Thanks in advance!
