- Feb 13, 2014
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I'll try to describe this the best that I can.
I have a couple hard drives in my PC. The last time I had installed a new HDD, I took the power supply from my DVD drive (since I don't use it much) to use for the new HDD. Yesterday I received a new power supply (4 pin molex to Sata converter), attached it to another cable and connected it to the power supply
It didn't seem to plug in all the way, but, I could not force it to go any farther in. I turned on the computer to test it and I smelled a kind of chemical/ burn type smell. The dvd drive did not work, I used a different power cable, and even switched out the power cable from the HDD in question to test the dvd drive (I took the power cable from the HDD and used it on the dvd drive).
The dvd drive is absolutely dead, but now my HDD seems to be acting weird. Games and videos aren't playing properly, all my data is still there, and I don't see any issues with the mother board (as in, no blown capacitors). Games seem to work perfectly fine on my primary SSD (ie. Arkham City on my HDD froze on the Nvidia screen, Skyrim on the SSD played perfectly).
Is there any there reason or explanation for what may be happening? It doesn't seem like a power supply issue, the bios seems to show that the PC is running at normal temp. I even double checked that the Graphic Card is properly connected. Could a short circuit have damaged only one specific HDD?
I have a couple hard drives in my PC. The last time I had installed a new HDD, I took the power supply from my DVD drive (since I don't use it much) to use for the new HDD. Yesterday I received a new power supply (4 pin molex to Sata converter), attached it to another cable and connected it to the power supply
It didn't seem to plug in all the way, but, I could not force it to go any farther in. I turned on the computer to test it and I smelled a kind of chemical/ burn type smell. The dvd drive did not work, I used a different power cable, and even switched out the power cable from the HDD in question to test the dvd drive (I took the power cable from the HDD and used it on the dvd drive).
The dvd drive is absolutely dead, but now my HDD seems to be acting weird. Games and videos aren't playing properly, all my data is still there, and I don't see any issues with the mother board (as in, no blown capacitors). Games seem to work perfectly fine on my primary SSD (ie. Arkham City on my HDD froze on the Nvidia screen, Skyrim on the SSD played perfectly).
Is there any there reason or explanation for what may be happening? It doesn't seem like a power supply issue, the bios seems to show that the PC is running at normal temp. I even double checked that the Graphic Card is properly connected. Could a short circuit have damaged only one specific HDD?
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