I bought a EVGA SuperNOVA 850w G2 and installed it this past Friday. When I booted it up, the BIOS came up normally and then hit a black screen. After a few seconds, I received an error code (white text on black background) that said something about Windows having failed and to use the Windows Installation/Recovery CD to fix it. Well, I put it on a flash drive because my Windows installation CD is at my parent's house (which is three hours from where I currently live).
I messed around inside the BIOS and with the recovery, but I couldn't get it to load my OS (command prompt could see my partitions, though...). When I loaded the HDD into another desktop machine, none of the contents were visible. The WD diagnostic tool said that there were "too many bad sectors," which usually means the hard drive is toast.
My question is this: Does anybody know how this happened? The PSU doesn't seem to be faulty because I can get to the BIOS, so the motherboard is good, and there doesn't seem to be a problem with the CPU or memory or anything. The hard drive worked fine before I switched power supplies. My other question is: If I take a hard drive from, say, a laptop, and plug it into my desktop, should I be worried that the laptop hard drive will get fried, too?
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850w G2
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77
Case: Rosewill Challenger
CPU: Intel i5-3570k
RAM: 4x2GB G.SKILL NS 240-pin DDR3 1333
Monitor: ASUS VH242H 23.6in
Fans: One stock 120mm fan, 3 Cougar 120mm and 1 140mm blue LED hydraulic
I messed around inside the BIOS and with the recovery, but I couldn't get it to load my OS (command prompt could see my partitions, though...). When I loaded the HDD into another desktop machine, none of the contents were visible. The WD diagnostic tool said that there were "too many bad sectors," which usually means the hard drive is toast.
My question is this: Does anybody know how this happened? The PSU doesn't seem to be faulty because I can get to the BIOS, so the motherboard is good, and there doesn't seem to be a problem with the CPU or memory or anything. The hard drive worked fine before I switched power supplies. My other question is: If I take a hard drive from, say, a laptop, and plug it into my desktop, should I be worried that the laptop hard drive will get fried, too?
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 850w G2
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V LK LGA 1155 Intel Z77
Case: Rosewill Challenger
CPU: Intel i5-3570k
RAM: 4x2GB G.SKILL NS 240-pin DDR3 1333
Monitor: ASUS VH242H 23.6in
Fans: One stock 120mm fan, 3 Cougar 120mm and 1 140mm blue LED hydraulic
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