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 I think my hard drive is failing - VxFan
Hmmm!

My PC seems to have untangled its knickers.

Since taking out the power supply Wednesday evening, checking all the output voltages were within tollerance (source of info from 2 separate websites), blowing out some dust from the PSU and putting it back in the PC, touch wood it's been fine.

All I can think is either there was some dust causing some tracking issues on the PSU PCB, which is unlikely as I give the inside of the PC and the PSU a good clean every 6 months to a year anyway, so the dust build up is minimal, or the 20 pin connector to the motherboard had a dry connection and breaking/making the joint resolved it. I know about component creep, and simply pulling out something like the RAM or a video card and putting back into the socket again can solve problems.

Either way, it's working again (for now anyway). Touches wood once more for good measure and all that.
Last edited by: VxFan on Sat 15 Dec 12 at 15:14
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