I'd be looking for sagging power lines based on what I
am going through with my
Antec 480W. Weird reboots, drives not showing up on
reboots, bad sectors
cropping up constantly on 2 new seagate 7200.10's,
etc.... All traced back to a
sagging 5V line and confirmed by opening the Antec PSU
to find puffed/leaking
crapola caps from Fujyyu.
Still trying to track down & order a new ATX 1.3 PSU
with enough 5V amps to
drive the old A7N8X w/ Sempron 3300+ in addition to 4
HDD's & an ATI X850. Will
likely buy a ToPower or Anthena based in what I've
read/can find.
James Maki wrote:
> About a month and a half ago, I related a problem I
was having with a new
> Western Digital WD7500AYYS 750GB SATA II drive.
Transfers to the drive seems
> very slow. I moved the drive around between several
adapters on 2 different
> computers. Finally, I put it in an external drive
and it worked fine, so I
> moved on to other problems. Yesterday, while trying
to re-install WinXP
> (another problem/post) I placed the WD 750 in the
computer case. It
> immediately started exhibiting the slow transfers.
>
> On a hunch, I switched out the power supply
connection for the external
> power for this drive only, and lo and behold, the
transfer times returned to
> "normal." Have any of you seen this problem where a
single drive has
> problems with the PS and exhibits slow transfers,
but otherwise operate
> normally?
>
> I will just use the drive in the external case, but
am curious as to the
> reasons.
>
> This is a Sparkle Power FSP550-60PLN-B 550 Watts
EPS12V Switching Power
> Supply purchased June of 2005. No other signs of
problems.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
> Jim Maki
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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