GrayFalco

Nothing seemed wrong with the drivers, the overclock of 4.2ghz ran for a year or so. I noticed that the PC dies if the exhaust fan stops working, is that any way relatable?

Hi LTT Forums, my computer randomly shut down and rebooted when i woke up, and then shut itself down again after a few minutes. Went into the bios and then found out that it froze in the bios so I cleared CMOS and reset my overclock and it shut itself down again and rebooted another time and now it seems to run fine again. Here's the thing, it happened sometime about 2 weeks ago as well except it didn't reboot when i shut it down, after power cycling a few times i managed to turn it on only to see a failed overclock message, ok so I reset my overclock of 4.2ghz at the time, went into windows checked my temps and they hover around 38c, then it proceeded to shut down again, I cleared cmos and it seemed to be working fine for the whole 2 weeks, temps on load were fine and all.So 2 days ago, i thought it was stable enough to give it another overclock so i updated BIOS and stuff and gave it a mild OC of 4.0ghz at 1.245v but apparently that didn't seem stable as it crashed but without BSOD and temps being cool.Ran memtest and it doesn't show any problems. Anyone got a solution for this? The motherboard and power supply are less than a year old Only thing that's clearly faulty is my exhaust fan in which im going to buy a new one in a few hours PC specs: PU:Intel i5 4670k GPU:Gigabyte Geforce GTX 970 G1 Gaming MOBO:Asus ROG Maximus VII Hero RAM:G.Skill Ripjaws X 8GB SSD:Sandisk Ultra Plus 128GB/Crucial M500 120GB HDD: 1xWD 1TB Caviar Black Cooler:Noctua NH-D14 PSU:Corsair HX850i

Hi, after facing data loss with my older hard drives, i've decided to make a home server.Any suggestions on how to make one with recycled parts or suggest better ones that need to be replaced preferably cheap as possible? I have a :Motherboard :MSI Z87 G41 PC Mate PSU :CM 725w PSU/and a raidmax 1000w PSU RAM :Corsair 4gb Value(leftoverss) Might also need a few reliable drives :c

I swapped different,known working cables that I used for my SSD's but no difference blew a fortune on new hardware and this comes up.Im cry

yeah

They were 4 years worth of data any reasons as to why this suddenly happened? overvoltage?

Only 1 of them was smoking tho coincidentally and ironically? the one that i never used.They worked perfect fine before

Hi all, I changed my PSU and motherboard and everything went well until I found that 3 of HDD's weren't detected and weren't even powering up,So I checked and realised I didn't plug in SATA power cables in 2 of them, so I went and did that.Went I powered on my PC, I heard a pop and the topmost HDD which was a 500gb Caviar Blue was smoking,well I immediately removed that one and all of them and waited a few mins before plugging in the other 2,which are 2x1TB WD Caviar Blues,1 of them remained powerless and no signs of life whereas the other one had whirring and abit of clicking(clicksofdeath?) My SSD's are perfectly fine tho.Did a stress test after and everything worked fine besides the HDD's.Any suggestions as to why this happened and what should i do to recover back the data from the hard drives? Mobo and PSU before change:MSI Z87 G41 PC Mate and Raidmax 1000w AE After change:ROG Maximus VII Hero and Corsair hxi850