[H-GEN] My SATA, motherboard nightmare

[Ewan Edwards]

On Monday 29 January 2007 12:27, David Duffy wrote:
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> > Here's a problem I've been having with SATA harddrives,
> > filesystem corruption, and my ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard. It's a
> > bit lengthy, but details pretty much everything I've tried (which
> > is quite a bit). I'm looking for confirmation (or otherwise) that
> > what I've done and the conclusions I've come to are sane. This
> > one has been driving me nuts.
> >
> > I'm looking for opinions. Am I right? Do I have any idea what I'm
> > talking about? Is there something I've missed that I ought to
> > try?
>
> I would try the power supply. All sorts of odd things can be put
> down to bad power.

 ... or PSU incompatibility.

This may seem like a pile of bollocks, but, ... I have come across a 
situation where a power supply and case were "incompatible".  The PSU 
was perfectly okay and tested to be so in a few different systems ... 
but ... when installed in this particular case it wouldn't work 
properly no matter what was tried ... different m'board, different 
(or no) hdd, etc..  When a different PSU was installed, all worked 
fine. :-/

When I first came across this phenomena, I was thoroughly confused and 
thought the man at the computer shop was bull*&#%ting me.  Still have 
no logical explanation. :-(