anubisX
Journeyman
Hello everyone, I'm back with my problem again. Today my Seagate 1TB HDD crashed and it ain't recognized anymore. So, it might get f#!*ed up or it is. Now, what might be the cause of this catastrophe ? Coz it really hurts when you lose a lot of data. I will get another 1TB and do RAID 1 with it but that's a different thing. Now, I want to know what might've caused the problem ? I've noticed before (once in a month or two) that the HDD wasn't recognized which I thought was bcoz of non-availability of power consumed by the 23cm fan on the side of the cabinet and the GPU. After a restart the problem used to disappear. My PC worked pretty fine till date but my friend told me that the performance of my PC is doomed. I popped one 40GB ATA for a temporary solution and it took nearly 20-25 mins to install XP. Today, I also noticed sudden restarts one after another (during booting) which never happened before. When the PC is powered off, it automatically restarted and it kept on restarting, might be bcoz of some setting changes in BIOS. Resetting the BIOS solved this problem. Do I need to change the PSU, is the PSU not enough ? My config is :
Abit IP35-E
Intel E8400
Corsair 800 MHz 1GB x 4
Seagate 1TB (will add another 1TB for RAID 1)
ATi Radeon HD3650 512MB
Samsung DVD-RW
Thermaltake Cabinet with 23cm fan
Will add Creative X-Fi / Auzentech Prelude soundcard
My current PSU is Point Of View 500W, do I need to change it to 650W or 1000W ? Sometimes, I just remove the power cable from the fan so that the DVD drive can work faster and it works all the time. I noticed flickering of LEDs in the fan when DVD drive and fan are connected at the same time. Do you think changing the PSU will improve the performance ? I'm waiting for your suggestions. I still couldn't understand what doomed my HDD !!
Abit IP35-E
Intel E8400
Corsair 800 MHz 1GB x 4
Seagate 1TB (will add another 1TB for RAID 1)
ATi Radeon HD3650 512MB
Samsung DVD-RW
Thermaltake Cabinet with 23cm fan
Will add Creative X-Fi / Auzentech Prelude soundcard
My current PSU is Point Of View 500W, do I need to change it to 650W or 1000W ? Sometimes, I just remove the power cable from the fan so that the DVD drive can work faster and it works all the time. I noticed flickering of LEDs in the fan when DVD drive and fan are connected at the same time. Do you think changing the PSU will improve the performance ? I'm waiting for your suggestions. I still couldn't understand what doomed my HDD !!