Seagate drive = dead...platters chattering and am going to attempt Ripleys freezer fix in the morning.
However that was just the tip of the iceberg. I HAD the new WD drive up and running until this morning when I go downstairs and see on the screen "Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter"...so I say this can't be good at all. So I attempt about 2 hours of troubleshooting before going for MRI on knee. Nothing works! I come back and get on the phone with a couple of tech buds who try to help. Still nothing.
I call TD...thanks for the thoughts in the PSU...and we try a different power line from the PSU and it at least booted into a start up screen for Windows. Then blammo back to BSOD and the back to the ubiquitous "Disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter" after checking DMI. So I restart and get in the bios and nothing other than RAM and CPU are registering. So now thanks to EVGA with their 2 year warranty on the board it's getting replaced. Thermaltake os sending me a new PSU expedited for delivery tomorrow even though they claim nothing is wrong they are backing their product! WTG Thermaltake! And lastly the wife doesn't know all that so I am getting a mini upgrade with more RAM, a new XFX PSU and a new case.
So in the end...
EVGA motherboard = dead SATA ports
Thermaltake 850W PSU = got it tested thos afternoon and found some spikes and some odd jumps and root cause of mobo failures.
