Re: Bad Power Supply?

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To add, I had a number of Samsung hd's that kept on failing, failure was
confirmed by samsung checking utility. Samsung rma'd the disks but failures
continued.
I had a True Pwr supply, still under warranty.
Changed the pwr supply, failures went away.
Then rma'd the True Pwr, to keep as a backup.

"w_tom" <w_tom1@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Malke wrote:
All well and good except that the OP has already stated that he ran
Seagate's drive diagnostic which showed drive inconsistencies. The fact
that his drive is new is irrelevant - in fact, if hardware is going to
fail it will often do so right away.

Of course. A defective power supply - as stated previously - will
create numerous symptoms including disk drive diagnostic errors. If a
'foundation' is not confirmed, then do we start planing the doors?
That is exactly what was recommended and done. Therefore nothing
useful is known. If a power supply is not veriified using numbers (a
simple two minute procedure), then nothing is known good or bad.

All computer problems get complex if power supply 'system' integrity
is not first established. Seagate's diagnostic errors tell us zero
useful information without first doing those 3.5 digit multimeter
measurements. This was standard on computers 30 years ago - when the
drives were drums and memory was iron core.

Reason that this problem was made useless complex: some just know,
for example, that PSU is not defective only from " it doesn't sound
like ..." reasoning. These are recommendations for confusion and
defeat.

At this point, the OP still should not be trying to fix anything.
Not provided are numbers from the 3.5 digit multimeter, information
from system (event) logs, AND (only after power supply is confirmed)
information from the hard drive diagnostic. Currently no useful
information is provided.

JamesJ - no useful information means no one could provide anything
but wild speculation. Start over. Do not try to fix anything yet.
First collect facts. And that starts with the 3.5 digit multimeter
because your symptoms are quite standard for a computer with a failing
power supply ... and other failures. Until we have confirmed power
supply integrity and posted those numbers, AND until information from
the system (event) log is provided, then every recommendation will only
be wild speculation.

JamesJ - spend $10 or $20 and two minutes to get the meter and the
numbers. Do not condemn or replace anything. Based upon what was
posted, there is not one paragraph that identifies anything, yet, as
either good or bad. Base upon what has been posted; you have every
reason to be confused and frustrated. Up to now, you have violated
even what is taught in CSI. You did not follow the evidence.
Speculation is why you are so confused and frustrated. Follow the
evidence. That means numbers from the meter and history from that
event (system) log.



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