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Unstable BCLK/PCIe clock + 4 hard drive failures in 6 weeks after move. Replaced Mobo+CPU but Issue persist & new HDDs failed
I'm having several issues that I believe are related. The issues began when I moved the computer to a new house 6 weeks ago.
The Bus Clock (BCLK & PCI Clock) of my CPU runs ~2Mhz lower than whats ...
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Can a PSU outage cause a Mechanical Start Failure on a S.M.A.R.T. drive?
Recently, my PSU crunched out on me and I had to replace it. The drive in question was running at the time, and during an attempt at start up afterwards (during which the PSU did not output enough ...
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HDD IO errors, is this definitely a HDD failure or could it be something else? kernel.log
This HDD's history
The hard drive is 1.5TB, 6 years old. IIRC it's 7200RPM with a ATA133 interface, using the motherboard's onboard controller. It gave perfect service in a big desktop PC, then 1 ...
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Why are my drives failling (version 2)?
I have a problem similar to the one described on question Why are my hard drives failing?. I have a PC assembled by my self and It has worked fine for 3 years but recently It have been killing hard ...
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2 new Caviar Blue hard drives failed within hours on new build
I made this standard desktop build for my father with an Asus AM1M-A mboard, Athlon 5150, 4GB Kingston DDR3 1333MHz (2x2GB), EVGA 430W 80 Plus PSU, and a Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB HD (...
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Does a Samsung G3 Station external hard drive stop working when power supply is too high? [closed]
I have a Samsung G3 Station 2TB external hard drive (link to PDF specs here). It was working perfectly when I accidentally plugged it in my notebook's power source. Now, it doesn't work even with the ...
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