Ztats:
Win7Pro 64bit OEM - recent reinstall after a nuke n pave, fully updated, has AV & AS installed, scanned weekly or so. System be clean
Core 2 Duo Clarkdale ~2.9 ghz, does the job
8 gigs DDR3 SDRAM
GeForce GTX 660 video (requires 450W PSU)
750W Power supply
Drives:
SATA-2 or 3? - Boot (notebook size) - 128gb SSD
IDE (standard size) - 320gb x2 (~5 years old)
SATA DVD drive - completely unplugged, as it's on its way out, but I don't have a slot cover for it, so it's just taking up space.
SATA-1 (standard size) - 1tb, ~4 years old
SATA-1 or -2 (notebook drive) - 500gb (from a ps3 - only there so I can try to recover some old files off of it. Did you know that dropping a HDD into a different PS3 from the one it's linked to automatically wipes the entire drive? I didn't! >_<) - will either go into my next replacement ps3 (#3 at this point) or be reformatted and used as an external backup
Issues:
Whenever I try to right-click on any hard drive in Windows Explorer, Explorer itself promptly crashes and must be restarted. Started doing this in the past 2 months or so. Possibly related to the second issue:
Not all the time, but more often than not, not all of my HD's will be properly recognized by the system. They appear in Explorer, but with no info aside from the drive letter and name -- no space remaining bar, and double-clicking does nothing. Once in a very long while, a drive or three won't show up at all -- but that's the BIOS hiccuping, and a quick reboot fixes that.
I'm thinking that maybe I'm simply overwhelming the PSU -- I can take out the PS3 drive if needed. No other apparent issues caused. Heat has not been an issue. Any thoughts?
Note that I am planning to upgrade the whole schmeer in a few months, if and when I can -- newer (read: under $200 each) mobo/CPU, PSU (all circa 2010), bringing over the boot drive, the SATA drive(s), and the video card -- possibly the RAM and the case itself. I can always repurpose the old hardware as a media server or something.
Win7Pro 64bit OEM - recent reinstall after a nuke n pave, fully updated, has AV & AS installed, scanned weekly or so. System be clean
Core 2 Duo Clarkdale ~2.9 ghz, does the job
8 gigs DDR3 SDRAM
GeForce GTX 660 video (requires 450W PSU)
750W Power supply
Drives:
SATA-2 or 3? - Boot (notebook size) - 128gb SSD
IDE (standard size) - 320gb x2 (~5 years old)
SATA DVD drive - completely unplugged, as it's on its way out, but I don't have a slot cover for it, so it's just taking up space.
SATA-1 (standard size) - 1tb, ~4 years old
SATA-1 or -2 (notebook drive) - 500gb (from a ps3 - only there so I can try to recover some old files off of it. Did you know that dropping a HDD into a different PS3 from the one it's linked to automatically wipes the entire drive? I didn't! >_<) - will either go into my next replacement ps3 (#3 at this point) or be reformatted and used as an external backup
Issues:
Whenever I try to right-click on any hard drive in Windows Explorer, Explorer itself promptly crashes and must be restarted. Started doing this in the past 2 months or so. Possibly related to the second issue:
Not all the time, but more often than not, not all of my HD's will be properly recognized by the system. They appear in Explorer, but with no info aside from the drive letter and name -- no space remaining bar, and double-clicking does nothing. Once in a very long while, a drive or three won't show up at all -- but that's the BIOS hiccuping, and a quick reboot fixes that.
I'm thinking that maybe I'm simply overwhelming the PSU -- I can take out the PS3 drive if needed. No other apparent issues caused. Heat has not been an issue. Any thoughts?
Note that I am planning to upgrade the whole schmeer in a few months, if and when I can -- newer (read: under $200 each) mobo/CPU, PSU (all circa 2010), bringing over the boot drive, the SATA drive(s), and the video card -- possibly the RAM and the case itself. I can always repurpose the old hardware as a media server or something.
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