Multiple(3) HDD die at once?

Dortmunder1

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Hey all.

My PC recently took a crap and I initially went and bought a PSU to see if that was the issue. After messing around and finding that it is not the PSU, thinking it was the Mobo/Processor, I bought new ones of those as well.

As it turns out my two GTX 570s are fried, as I took a crappy old card out of another PC and started getting video again. There may or not be problems with the old mobo/processor as I haven't been able to try getting it working again.

But after putting the new Mobo, Processor, and video card I had to buy today, I can't get any of my hard drives to spin up. Not the 3 that were originally in the case anyways. I plugged in another HDD from another PC and can hear it spin up.

What could have caused 3 HDD's to fail all at once. 2 are 150GB Velociraptors I had in RAID 0. The 3rd is a 1 TB WD Caviar.

I have no idea what the hell happened to my computer, but losing 2 SLI cards and 3 Hard Drives seems a bit off to me.
 

Dortmunder1

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Pretty ridiculous. I initially went in just to replace my PSU. Ended up replacing whole computer pretty much except for the case and peripherals etc.

Hopefully all my RAM is ok :x
 

Dortmunder1

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My old PSU was an Antec TPQ-1000. Wasn't terribly old. So that's probably what caused it then, the PSU?

If I plug an old video card, ram, etc onto the board that everything went bad on, I still get video/bios etc. But I'm not going to plug anything new on there now.
 
I just checked the specs for that model and it has all of the protection features I previously mentioned. I could see 1 of your drives being fried, but I don't know how 3 drives and 2 video cards could have bypassed all of that protection.

Like RealBeast stated, I've never seen that happen before.
 

Dortmunder1

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Yeah, my friend who fixes computers for a living said he's never seen or even heard of that. He said I should look into getting Monster to pay for it(that's the surge protector I have), but not sure how to even go about that.

When I went to buy a new drive to get the computer running again I had them test all 3 drives, and they wouldn't spin up for them either.

Really sucks bricking 3 HDDs and 2 decent SLI cards and having no real explanation. The PSU and Mobo that everything got fried on still seems to POST with components on it too o_O