TheDieHardNinja

I have reason to believe that I have fried the controllers on two hard drives and an SSD. I have a 4TB WD Black, a 3TB Seagate Baracuda and a 1TB Samsung 860 Evo. I think it happened when I was trying to diagnose a problem with my GPU. I plugged my 24-pin power connector into a PSU tester but left the rest of the PC components attached to the PSU. When I plugged the 24-pin into the tester, unsurprisingly the rest of the components got powered, which I didn't think would be a problem, but apparently was. I have two SATA controllers on my motherboard and an SSD which was connected to the ASUS chipset survived, but the three drives which were connected to the Intel controller have died and are totally unresponsive when I tried plugging them into a SATA to USB adaptor attached to another computer and are equally useless when plugged into the original PC via either SATA controller. All were originally connected to the power supply with the same SATA power cable. Now that all the power cables are back where they are meant to be, the computer refuses to boot from the SSD which didn't get fried when it's attached to the Intel SATA controller. It BSoDs with "Inaccessible Boot Device" but it loads windows fine when the SSD is attached to the ASUS controller. Does anyone know what on earth could have gone wrong or whether I can do anything about it short of sending the drives to a data recovery company?

I had an outdated driver when the problem first occurred and it continues to occur now with the latest drivers. I have also tried manually installing a 3 month old driver though

yep, just tried that and it didn't work. Good shout though. I considered it closer to the beginning of my troubleshooting process but forgot about it later on...

lol I'm painfully aware of that... my current GPU has served me well for six and a bit years, so I wouldn't mind upgrading, but I literally can't!

Ah, good to know. Reinstalling windows is my last resort. It would just be so inconvenient - I've already had to do it once before for a different issue... Is there anything else I can try?

I think my graphics card (an EVGA 780Ti SC) might have bricked itself? You can see my full PC specs on my profile The short story is that Windows (Pro, 64-bit) has automatically disabled my GPU (Code 43 in device manager) and there's nothing I seem to be able to do about it. The long story is... The night before my woes I shut down my computer and it had no updates pending install, so everything seemed normal. The next day I powered up my computer and I think I hit enter after typing my password when the screen froze and after doing nothing for a bit, I got a BSoD whose apparent cause was "DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION". I restarted my computer and basically the same thing happened again, however this time the display freaked out a little before it BSoDed with the same error. It then got stuck in a boot loop for a couple of cycles before starting up again, at which point I was able to log in, but very shortly after the display freaked out (I got all kinds of funny shapes and colours) before it died and put itself into recovery mode and I rebooted it again. This time it started in a funky resolution and let me into windows just fine, at which point I realised that it was running with no driver active. Interestingly, with the GPU physically installed, CPU-Z can tell what it is, but can't seem to access any operating statistics such as clock speed and memory capacity. I have tried everything which I (and others) can think of to get windows to accept my GPU again... I have: Fully updated windows Completely physically removed my GPU and reseated it Uninstalled the GPU from the system in Device Manager and re-discovered it Run DDU in safe mode Installed a 3 month old driver through device manager Installed the latest driver from GeForce Experience Put it in another system, but the screen went black and remained blank when the driver was installed I haven't tried reinstalling Windows because I've had to do it before and I want to avoid that inconvenience at all costs - is there anything else I can try? I've bought a PSU tester to verify that it isn't a power supply issue. Could it be a corrupted VBIOS?

I was only able to revert it to the previous driver (not sure what one it was, but it used to work). The PG278Q is connected via DisplayPort because it is G-sync and only has one input. One of the PB277Qs is connected via straight HDMI and the other is via a DVI to HDMI cable. But like I said... It doesn't seem to matter which one is plugged in and it all worked fine for weeks!

I am having a fairly major issue with my PC that only started this last Monday… It would be easier for you to look at my profile for the specs than for me to write them all in here. Basically, whenever I turn my computer on, it posts then shows the windows logo with the loading icon, then once that is done, it just stops. The display goes black and stays that way. It sounds to me as if the computer then tries to restart, going by the noise it makes. If I then unplug all but one monitor and wait a while, it recovers, displays the login screen and allows me to continue. The strange thing is that if I only plug one monitor in, doesn’t matter which one, it starts perfectly fine when I first turn it on, shows me the login screen and allows me to use it normally. Now the super strange bit… Once logged in and fully ready to use, if I then plug another monitor in, it accepts it and adapts windows to suit. Then, I can plug the third one in, no trouble and all three work at the same time as if nothing was wrong! However, if I plug them in before it is finished booting or too quickly after each other, they all freeze, go black and the whole thing just halts. It’s odd because if I then unplug all but one again, it eventually recovers but it seems like the OS freezes too for the duration, because it doesn’t finish booting in the background, but continues once the display is back up. When it locks itself after not being used for a while, I’ve had it sometimes freeze and not display anything, but sometimes I am able to unlock it again just fine. I have tried taking the GPU out and plugged two of the monitors straight into the motherboard, which it didn't seem to mind. I have tried turning it off at the wall for several seconds, rolling back the graphics driver, reverting to a restore point, doing a full scan with Malwarebytes, fixing registry errors with CCleaner and checking for bios and windows updates, none of which worked. I have restarted it so many times now and every time, it does the same thing. I am currently back on the latest graphics driver (378.92). I have Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, version 1607, build 14393.969, Bios version 1504 . Help would be much appreciated!

Great giveaway Linus! It would be really cool to win your PC! Like you said... Not the greatest specs but what an honour! Vessel user name: TheDieHardNinja My favourite two videos: https://www.vessel.com/videos/LCoY5zfFf https://www.vessel.com/videos/JYZEYDYx0 Social media posts: https://www.facebook.com/ben.colclough.16/posts/736800209751725?pnref=story https://twitter.com/Bencolclough5/status/580332123242016768

Oh man, I would love to win one of these to replace my 4770k as I do enjoy making videos and this CPU would get the rendering done a lot faster!

My favourite item is the power supply because it just looks so cool! and it is powerful enough to run a good gaming computer!