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Tagged with power-supply hard-drive
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My computer makes weird sounds that you can only hear through a speaker
I recently got a brand new computer. Everything was fine until I plugged my electric guitar into my amp. When I switch on my guitar amp (guitar speaker) I can hear a weird noise. It sounds like the ...
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SATA Hard drive not detected after disconnecting it and connecting it again
HDD 1: Not working
HDD 2: Working
I accidentally disconnected the SATA to motherboard cable, with the power suply cable still attached (from HDD 1). It crashed my Ubuntu, and when I connected the ...
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Two power supplies in one machine
I have two hard disks which I would like to use. When I bought the second one I didn't realize that my power supply only had one hard disk cable.
Is there any way I can still use my second one, like ...
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Can a 300W power supply support two additional hard drives?
I am thinking of purchasing the Dell I580-5108NBC, but I want to add 2 1TB SATA drives in a RAID5 config. The system only has a 300W power supply, and already has a 1TB drive and a DVD burner. Is the ...
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PSU died, is hard drive fried? Are other components damaged?
After discovering and replacing my dead PSU, I was able to boot back into Windows. Everything seems to be working fine, however, one hard drive is not. Windows 7 says that this SATA hard drive needs ...
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How to force a hard drive to shut down
I have a hard drive in my computer that I'm not using. I want Windows 7 to shut it down. I don't want to have to manually remove the cable.
(The reason is that for some strange reason my computer ...
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Is there any limit on number of devices i can use with power supply
I have joined 4 CD writers and 3 SATA HArd drives with 400W power suppy.
Is there any limit on number of devices i can use with power supply
IF i join all devices then after window starts then i get ...
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Internal SATA connected to External SATA without an enclosure
Would there be any problem connecting an internal SATA drive using an old PC Power Supply for its power and connecting to an external SATA port on a laptop? Would there be any voltage conflicts?
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What is the maximum power consumption of a Seagate Barracuda ES.2 SATA 3Gb/s 1TB Hard Drive? [closed]
Model #ST31000340NS
You can find the technical specifications here, by selecting "1 TB" and "SATA 3.0Gb/s" in the drop-down lists. (I am asking this question because I don't really understand what ...
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Can't find the right plug from my PSU to my raptor 10K drive
I have a corsair tx 750 PSU, and I can't seem to find the correct plug that would fit into the cable for my raptor 10K 300 gb drive.
arghh.
Update
My raptor was OEM, and didn't come with any cables.
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