Re: Massive IDE problems. Who leaves data here?

[Manuel Reimer]

Ray Lee wrote:
> (Please always do a reply-to-all for this email list.)

Currently I don't have a SMTP server configured. As soon as my system is 
trustworthy, again, I'll do that.

> Bad or almost bad power supplies can cause lots of unhappy problems
> such as these. If you have another power supply laying around, it can
> be worth swapping them out. Double-checking that your CPU fan is still
> spinning, and that memtest86+ doesn't show any errors doesn't hurt
> either.

... that may be possible...

I have all PCI slots filled with cards, two big IDE hard drives and one 
DVD RAM writer. I already disconnected the DVD drive, as this was nearly 
unusable with all those IDE errors. The power supply is (AFAIR) a 200 
watt one.

But may the power supply cause corrupted data? Shouldn't that crash down 
the PC completely?

CU

Manuel

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