jstern Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 Hey all, this question is unrelated to this forum, so I was wondering if anyone knows a good hardware community for me to present my problems. I bought an MDG computer a couple years back, and Ive had constant problems with Hard Drives getting Bad Sectors to the point of un usability. I have actually gone though 5 Hard Drives (on my 6th right now). All western digital SATA 500GB - 750 GB drives. Luckily replaced under warranty each time, but i'm sure the warranties will be up soon if not already. The computer doesn't get moved around, and I don't have any power outages, so I believe this is is related to another piece of hardware, but i don't know how-to troubleshoot this. One friend thinks the MOBO is to blame, I have a gut feeling its a PSU voltage issue, but dont have a voltage meter to even confirm this. This last HD (WD Cavier Black) i put in, I tried something new, formatted a 10 GIG partition with ubuntu to NFTS for my windows 7, and created a separate Partition of about 700GB to FAT32 as storage, media, downloads, work will go here. So far so good, but i im confident it wont stay good for long through previous drive experience with this machine. Every night i run a defrag and a chkdsk with repair bad sectors if found. Nothing yet, but like I said, i don't believe it will stay good. Any advice from Killer Community, or at least a helpful link to a community would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newseed Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 I'm incline to believe that the motherboard is probably not regulating the voltage correctly but that's just my opinion. You can get a wealth of info and help if you post it at Tom's Hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstern Posted October 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2010 Thanks newseed, I have created a thread on their forum.. I wonder if the MOBO would be under warranty if thats the case? I may have waiting a little to long at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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