Long time lurker first time poster and could use some help - I'll try to keep this short.
My PC started to randomly power off during gaming. Yesterday it happened about 2.5 hrs into far cry 6. I suspected the PSU so a friend gave me his unused NZXT NP-C750M PSU. While hooking it up I noticed the SATA power connector wasn't sitting perfectly flush on the HDD, just slightly crooked but didn't think much of it. When I had everything hooked up I tried to power it on and just heard a click and CPU heatsink fan spun a second and stopped. Testing it, I noticed the 4 modular SATA/Perif plugs on PSU weren't working, wouldn't power drives or case fans. Everything else working. Then I realized the SATA plug that was not sitting flush on HDD was due to a bent contact in the SATA connector. I hooked up my old PSU to test and everything worked except the HDD, it doesn't power on, bio's doesn't recognize it.
I about cried at that point. Mind you I only have fairly basic technical PC knowledge, but I felt not only did I apparently fry the sata/perif power rail in the PSU, but my WD 1 TB HDD WD10EZEX seems done for.
Please see pics (bent contact and you can see where it pushed into plastic on drive side), can that first pin on the L bend side not making contact do this? Hard to imagine but the drive was working fine yesterday before PSU swap. What are my options? Pay the steep price to send the drive to a recovery business and hope they can get it working?
View: https://imgur.com/CQpuXPA
View: https://imgur.com/o9VYfSU
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
PC: Intel I7-8700, ASUS B360 TUF B360M plus gaming, cryrig H7, WD 1TB blue WD10EZEX, Intel 32GB Optane m.2 mem, 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000
My PC started to randomly power off during gaming. Yesterday it happened about 2.5 hrs into far cry 6. I suspected the PSU so a friend gave me his unused NZXT NP-C750M PSU. While hooking it up I noticed the SATA power connector wasn't sitting perfectly flush on the HDD, just slightly crooked but didn't think much of it. When I had everything hooked up I tried to power it on and just heard a click and CPU heatsink fan spun a second and stopped. Testing it, I noticed the 4 modular SATA/Perif plugs on PSU weren't working, wouldn't power drives or case fans. Everything else working. Then I realized the SATA plug that was not sitting flush on HDD was due to a bent contact in the SATA connector. I hooked up my old PSU to test and everything worked except the HDD, it doesn't power on, bio's doesn't recognize it.
I about cried at that point. Mind you I only have fairly basic technical PC knowledge, but I felt not only did I apparently fry the sata/perif power rail in the PSU, but my WD 1 TB HDD WD10EZEX seems done for.
Please see pics (bent contact and you can see where it pushed into plastic on drive side), can that first pin on the L bend side not making contact do this? Hard to imagine but the drive was working fine yesterday before PSU swap. What are my options? Pay the steep price to send the drive to a recovery business and hope they can get it working?
View: https://imgur.com/CQpuXPA
View: https://imgur.com/o9VYfSU
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!
PC: Intel I7-8700, ASUS B360 TUF B360M plus gaming, cryrig H7, WD 1TB blue WD10EZEX, Intel 32GB Optane m.2 mem, 2x 8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000
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