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I fit a replacement controller board with the identical serial number (sourced from ebay). I still had no love. I had to accept that the drive was faulty and unrecoverable. I bought a new drive.

thank you mdd1963

the motherboard has 8 ddr3 slots. from left to right A1 A2 B1 B2 D2 D1 C2 C1 originally i had one stick of 8GB DDR3 in slot A1. computer would not power up at all if GTX760 was installed (other GFX cards booted fine). I eventually troubleshooted and found that DDR stick had to be in B1 for...

so you can't use two kingston 8GB DDR3 1600mhz sticks at the same time? Is that specific to my motherboard only, or all? can i put it in a different slot on the mobo? would it make a difference? thanks

Hello all, Motherboard is P9X79, using GTX760. originally had 1 x 8GB DDR3 kingston in slot B1 (computer wouldn't boot with this graphics card if stick was in slot A1, took me a while to figure that one out!). So i have placed the 2nd stick (new) of DDR3 8GB kingston into slot B2 right next to...

OK i've removed the controller board from the faulty drive (T6 torx screwdriver) and replaced it with a known working board from another identical drive. When i install the drive, it shows up in disk management (which is a good sign), but it says the drive size is 128GB, not 3TB, and it is...

hi dfryda, I've put the drive into an external case (i'm assured it'll work with a 3TB HDD), and when i power up the case/drive and plug into a USB port, it isn't even recognised as a USB device (no USB connection sound, nothing). I assume this means the hard drive's controller board is...

thanks :) I have an external case but cannot use this 3TB drive with it because the external cases i have only support drives up to 1TB before they start doing strange things. I know this because previously i put in a 2TB drive into the external case and it was (a) unreadable via USB and (b)...

Hi All, Regarding my Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB SATA drive. It has existing data on it (storage only, not using nor never have used as a boot drive), installed it on my new setup and it worked for around 2 months before disappearing completely, without apparently any prompt/warning. My...