Providence
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Apr 23, 2006
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- 193
...actually caught fire.
Trying to install Vista Ultimate 64. Everything was going okay for a while until Vista said, "No drives detected."
That's BS because I had FOUR SATA drives ready for use. Sure enough, I boot into the BIOS and none of them show.
Okay. So I thought maybe the disk wasn't spinning. It was using SATA power so without thinking (Can this REALLY cause this?? Thought there would be a safeguard) I plug in the molex connection WITHOUT upluggin the SATA power connection.
I boot up and notice smoke. I've got a watercooled system so at first I thought it was related to that since it looked like it came from the processor so I blew on the processor and then a huge flash of fire and smoke comes out of one of my drive bays. Pretty sure it was the one that had both power connections.
At this point, I'm scared of continuing.
Ultra X3 power supply (1Kw)
Had three sata power cables plugged into the drive...so much ambient noise and vibrations it was hard to tell if the disks were spinning but I don't think they were.
8800GTS and QX9650 watercooled very well. Leak tested for 24 hours, no leaks at all.
Any guesses as to why the BIOS didn't see the drives? I took that drive right out of my old rig so it WAS working yesterday...althought probably not anymore...before I fry another $100 anyone have any suggestions?
EDIT
Yeah, it was the drive. Took the bay out of the Antec 900 and there is a HUGE black hole where something just blew under the drive. The drive below it is singed black.
Trying to install Vista Ultimate 64. Everything was going okay for a while until Vista said, "No drives detected."
That's BS because I had FOUR SATA drives ready for use. Sure enough, I boot into the BIOS and none of them show.
Okay. So I thought maybe the disk wasn't spinning. It was using SATA power so without thinking (Can this REALLY cause this?? Thought there would be a safeguard) I plug in the molex connection WITHOUT upluggin the SATA power connection.
I boot up and notice smoke. I've got a watercooled system so at first I thought it was related to that since it looked like it came from the processor so I blew on the processor and then a huge flash of fire and smoke comes out of one of my drive bays. Pretty sure it was the one that had both power connections.
At this point, I'm scared of continuing.
Ultra X3 power supply (1Kw)
Had three sata power cables plugged into the drive...so much ambient noise and vibrations it was hard to tell if the disks were spinning but I don't think they were.
8800GTS and QX9650 watercooled very well. Leak tested for 24 hours, no leaks at all.
Any guesses as to why the BIOS didn't see the drives? I took that drive right out of my old rig so it WAS working yesterday...althought probably not anymore...before I fry another $100 anyone have any suggestions?
EDIT
Yeah, it was the drive. Took the bay out of the Antec 900 and there is a HUGE black hole where something just blew under the drive. The drive below it is singed black.