Recently I added a third HD to my PC. Its a WD Green 1.5TB. I have a Corsair 550W power supply, and I'm pretty sure I am only using ~450W. The thing is, this morning, my PC wouldn't turn on. I turned the PSU off and on and it still wouldn't turn on. Then I removed the power cable waited ~20 seconds and put it back in and it still wouldn't turn on. I tried it again and waited ~60seconds and when I pressed the power button it turned on. I went onto speedfan after it turned on and it says: GPU = 62C System = 33C CPU= 30C AUX: 125C (its always been like that for some reason) HD0: 37C HD1: 35C HD2: 184C Core0 = 39C Core1 = 38C Now i know for a fact that none of my hard drives are hitting 184C because I opened the case and touched them, their all pretty cool in fact, I wouldn't even say their in the high 30s. Am I just being obsessive? Or could this actually be a big problem?
Is the hard drive working ok when the computer boots up? If it keeps giving you problems I would remove the 1.5 TB drive and see if that fix the problem. I read here in the forums of people having problems with some of the over 1TB drives. I notice some of the software that monitor temperature sometimes will give erroneous readings if it doesn't recognize the component. You can try some different temp software and see if you get different readings. I doubt you have a power problem especially with a 550 watt supply. My phenom quad 9750 has 4 hard drives and is running perfectly with a 400 watt power supply.
Those drives are total trash...I ordered one...it had stability issues, so I returned it. The second one was DOA, and the third replacment had the same stability issues as the first. I finaly returned it for a partial refund...after all the shipping and the restocking fee, I could have bought a working 1TB seagate drive for the same money I waisted. I would hardly be suprised if there are some electrical problems with the circuit board on one of these drives. You can go into your bios and check out the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive. If it reports that the temperature hit 184C, then you should be able to RMA it.
I agree with KillBug. WD drives are not known reliability and long life. I've had 2 hard drivse failures in the last 10 years and both times it was a Western Digital. I stopped buying WD drives. I had no problems with Seagate, Maxtor, or Hitachi.
As to Jony's question the HD works fine, Ive added about 1TB of content on it already and its fast, works fine and really silent/cool, so I don't think its the hard drive. The PC it self works fine as well, the main problem is that when I try to turn it on it wont turn on (no reaction to me pressing the button at all), so when i plug and unplug the power it turns on immediately. What I wanna know is how to fix that problem. Now for the WD 1.5TB HD, I have actually read decent reviews on it, I have been using it for about a week now with no problems. Ironically, I have had exactly the same situation with Killerbug but it was the other way around, I have bought 5 hard drives in the last 4-5 years and 2 of them (which were both seagate) died on me horribly (10,000+ bad sectors) causing me to lose all my data and giving me huge headaches so I have sworn off seagate for a while now, whereas my WDs have been working perfectly since day one. In fact most review sites and hardware sites seem to agree that WD has really upped their game whereas as Seagate isn't keeping up. However my main problems still comes back to why PC won't turn on automatically when I press the button. I don't really care about what speedfan says anymore because i know for a fact that the HD isn't at 130C, in fact its barely at 30C most of the time.
The motherboard is in standby power when the cord is plugged. As soon as you press the switch on the front the mobo detects it and switches on the main through your power supply. It can only be 4 possible causes. 1. front power switch flakey or wired to mobo's reset pins. 2. motherboard not switching main power or it senses overheating and prevents power on. 3. peripheral causing a short on power rail 4. power supply over current causes reset or no power. Since you've already put data on the new drive I would eliminate #3. I would say mobo or power supply. You could easliy bypass the switch by putting a jumper across the motherboard header pins.
I do not think its #3 either because my PC is cooled pretty well, the only think that is even relatively hot is the GPU but I think that's normal. Therefore the problem is either #1 or #4. I think its my button, not wired properly, i had to unhook some wires when inserting my new HD, maybe i rewired something incorrectly. Ill try to fix it and get back to you guys.
I haven't gotten to attempting to fix the wires, however something weird happened today, the same problem occurred so I went back to unplug and plug in power cord so it can turn on but all i did was nudge the back of the PC a bit and it turned on by it self (after having pressed power button 15 seconds before). Any ideas?
