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The PSU didn't help - but I have proper voltage output now and a very silent PSU, so it wasn't all in vain - the old one was very dusty and noisy. I swapped SATA ports with a third drive - and that did the trick. When I swapped the first time, it was a WD of same model and the problem was...

I'm not familiar with Hirens, but just googled it - I also just received a message from the postal service telling me, that my PSU will arrive tomorrow. I'll actually install the PSU first, as thoroughly testing a 4TB drive with software will probably take ages.

SuperSoph_WD, thank you for your reply. I downloaded Data Lifeguard but was not able t run it. It stops working after I acknowledge License Agreement. I had already done a so called Reinitialize test from HD Sentinal, and found no further problems and it "fixed" a bad sector. According to...

I found a never used before cable but sadly, it did not help. I then had a look in BIOS, to see if there was something there I could tweak - didn't appear so, but while being in there, I had a look at the Hardware Monitor. My 3.3v output is at 2.9v and marked in red. I can't find proper answers...

Thank you for your replies - I appreciate it. I stumbled upon a post somewhere, about someone having similar problem. He found the solution by swapping SATA cables and since it's a very quick thing try out, I figured, why not try it myself. I swapped cables with another drive that I had just...

Edit: Solved by swapping SATA cables I own 3 WD Black harddrives: WDC WD4003FZEX-00Z4SA0 One of these tops the read speed at 180MB/s while the write speed tops at 15MB/s and I can't figure out why. The other drives are much faster. I've tried googling but couldn't come up with much. I hope...

It was apparently temperature related and after some cleaning using compressed air, the computer has been running fine for some hours with heavy Photoshop usage (with GPU acceleration enabled).

Hi, My system is around 5 years old, with everything being purchased at the same time. Everything has been working nicely, but all of the sudden, the screen started to go blank this morning. GPU shows red light. I'm om Win 7, GTX 295, Asus P6T SE and Corsair TX 750w PSU. I haven't upgraded or...