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I just replaced my 1 year old PSU, a Corsair CX750M, with a EVGA 1000P2, and on the very first start up with the new PSU I get a burning smell and immediately turn it off.
I check everything and it seems fine, turn it on and no smell but my system is unstable, at first not detecting any storage devices and upon switching SAtA ports it BSODs after 30 seconds on the desktop.
I noticed I was using the SATA cable from my older corsair PSU and changed them out for the newer EVGA one. The PC starts and runs fine but it does not detect my HDD. My OS is on a Samsung SSD with bulk storage going on the HDD which is a Western Digital Black 2TB. Regardless of the SATA port or cord I use it does not detect the HDD in the BIOS or device manager. When I was still getting BSODs my custom Rain Meter desktop was loading in, which stored it's skins on my HDD, which means it was still partially working after the burning smell and stopped working completely after I changed SATA cables. The pc still detected the 2nd hardrive before switching cables but listed it at 0/0 space.
I removed the HDD and learned that the electric smell had emanated from the HDD. I have no clue of knowing but I assume that due to me using the other manufactures SATA cables I possibly fried my HDD, I haven't switched back to the old PSU because ofnthe time sink and i haven't used the old SATA cable again for fear of another possible incident.
Is there any way of knowing if my HDD is toast or if the problem is still possibly something to do with the new PSU? I switched my SDD over to where my HDD was previously installed (Corsair 540 case with built in hotswap bays) and the bay still works fine so it isn't the connection, i believe. I contacted Western Digital and hopefully there is something they can do if the HDD is truly lost, it is only a year old.
TLDR
Possibly destroyed my Western Digital 2TB Black HDD with a new EVGA PSU due to a Corsair SATA cable but no apparent physical damage other than a burnt smell coming from the connection ports on the HDD.
Is it possible a different companies SATA cord fried it or, if not, what could have happened and is there a possible fix?
Sorry if there is too much information, I just wanted to be as precise as possible.
Any help is truly appreciated.
I just replaced my 1 year old PSU, a Corsair CX750M, with a EVGA 1000P2, and on the very first start up with the new PSU I get a burning smell and immediately turn it off.
I check everything and it seems fine, turn it on and no smell but my system is unstable, at first not detecting any storage devices and upon switching SAtA ports it BSODs after 30 seconds on the desktop.
I noticed I was using the SATA cable from my older corsair PSU and changed them out for the newer EVGA one. The PC starts and runs fine but it does not detect my HDD. My OS is on a Samsung SSD with bulk storage going on the HDD which is a Western Digital Black 2TB. Regardless of the SATA port or cord I use it does not detect the HDD in the BIOS or device manager. When I was still getting BSODs my custom Rain Meter desktop was loading in, which stored it's skins on my HDD, which means it was still partially working after the burning smell and stopped working completely after I changed SATA cables. The pc still detected the 2nd hardrive before switching cables but listed it at 0/0 space.
I removed the HDD and learned that the electric smell had emanated from the HDD. I have no clue of knowing but I assume that due to me using the other manufactures SATA cables I possibly fried my HDD, I haven't switched back to the old PSU because ofnthe time sink and i haven't used the old SATA cable again for fear of another possible incident.
Is there any way of knowing if my HDD is toast or if the problem is still possibly something to do with the new PSU? I switched my SDD over to where my HDD was previously installed (Corsair 540 case with built in hotswap bays) and the bay still works fine so it isn't the connection, i believe. I contacted Western Digital and hopefully there is something they can do if the HDD is truly lost, it is only a year old.
TLDR
Possibly destroyed my Western Digital 2TB Black HDD with a new EVGA PSU due to a Corsair SATA cable but no apparent physical damage other than a burnt smell coming from the connection ports on the HDD.
Is it possible a different companies SATA cord fried it or, if not, what could have happened and is there a possible fix?
Sorry if there is too much information, I just wanted to be as precise as possible.
Any help is truly appreciated.
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