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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Reschke on March 14, 2011, 04:57:22 PM

Title: Well it was more than just a dead drive.
Post by: Reschke on March 14, 2011, 04:57:22 PM
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.
Title: Re: Well it was more than just a dead drive.
Post by: soda72 on March 14, 2011, 05:47:07 PM
It wouldn't happen to be SATA II would it?

Boy this sounds similar to the SATA issues intel had with the p67 and h67 chipsets for the LGA 1155 boards.  I wonder if it is the same design flaw.  

 :headscratch:



Sandy bridge design issue explained:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJcE2alQPvY&feature=relmfu

Title: Re: Well it was more than just a dead drive.
Post by: Reschke on March 14, 2011, 10:19:17 PM
Nope this is on an X58 SLI LE board that I have had since August 2009 and it's using an i7-920 CPU. Everything was still clocked at stock so that wasn't an issue either.