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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Dervacumen on July 20, 2012, 07:20:12 am ---You might try unplugging the SATA connector at the motherboard and using a different one on the motherboard, or even swapping out another SATA cable.  It's possible that the act of flicking the power adapter near your hard drive is also slightly moving the SATA cable from the drive to the motherboard.  I hate troubleshooting this type of stuff.

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I forgot to mention I already replaced the cable with a new one. I don't know why whowever assembled this unit put such an old power supply in....but it is 250, and even with three drives, an optical drive, and four USB devices connected (video is onboard), it calcs below this. I'll have to find me a PATA to SATA power connector.

Gray_Area:
I ended up getting a Corsair 430w PSU (I did a bunch of research: techupdate had a glowing review of it a few years back) at Newegg for $25 after rebate (ebay let me down!). Then we should soon know what the deal is.

lilshawn:
jesus ---fudgesicle--- a 250 watt power supply?!?!?!?!?!  :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:

no wonder the thing is flaking out on you.

a 500 watter can be had for under $30

Avoid Sparkle power supplies (SPI). Thats all.

shmokes:
Am I missing something? A flaky power supply cannot cause a problem that would be fixable by jiggling the connector where it connects to the hard drive. Can one of you people fingering the power supply as the culprit please justify your conclusion?

lilshawn:
power supplies are at best 80% efficient....and most of them cannot even supply the rated power without self destructing.

running 3 harddrives, an optical drive, motherboard...maybe videocard on what I can now only assume is at LEAST 5 year old power supply (since i couldn't find anything less than a 500 watt powersupply out in the wild if i tried.)

The caps in that supply are going to be weak as hell (maybe even swollen)


--- Quote from: shmokes on July 21, 2012, 10:07:17 pm ---Am I missing something? A flaky power supply cannot cause a problem that would be fixable by jiggling the connector where it connects to the hard drive. Can one of you people fingering the power supply as the culprit please justify your conclusion?

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Wonky power causes all sorts of weird stuff to happen. I had a 500 watt supply caps go and my boot drive would randomly cut out....the other 3 worked just fine. I thought the drive was going and swapped it started losing data on the new drive....then I thought the board so i ended up buying a new computer....never even dawned on me the power supply. swapped the power supply for the new one i bought. Not a peep. (ive since replaced the entire computer with the components i bought and moved the drives to my new computer with no problems.)

ripped open that supply, sure enough it had the tops popped on about 5 of the caps.

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