Did I fry my drives?

[Indiana]

So, I bought a new PSU, a eVGA G3 750w, previously I had a Corsair CX750M, but still everything worked OK.

After installing the new PSU, the PC boots OK, goes to the BIOS and I see no drives there, I used to have a SSD and HDD.

After a bit of digging on the reason why this was happening, I discovered that I made the mistake of reusing the old Corsair power cables that powered my drives, with the new PSU I acquired.

After examining the distribution of the sockets, yup, they are different. Then I smelled a strong burnt plastic smell from the SSD.

So, it's safe to say that I fried both my drives right?, I then changed the cable for the proper one, tried a different SSD that I had somewhere and it was recognized by the BIOS just fine. Also tried both those drives on a different PC and they are indeed dead.

Just curious as to why on earth would the standards change, and fry drives in the process.

#pissedoff.

 

[panathas]

Yes unfortunately you have fired both your drives. Modular PSU cables aren't standardised. Each PSU manufacturer develops its own cables and connectors that plug into the PSU. I also think that you are very lucky because you could have easily fried your motherboard by using those cables.

 

[Indiana]

I used new cables except for the drives and sound card, xonar essence stx II which apparently didn't fry, at least it shows In Windows.

 

[USAFRet]

There is no standardization for modular cables.

 

[panathas]

I used new cables except for the drives and sound card, xonar essence stx II which apparently didn't fry, at least it shows In Windows.

You are forgetting, that a sata drive is still connected to the motherboard via the sata (data) cable. So if a drive gets fried from excessive voltage levels (by using the wrong cables), there is also a good chance that the motherboard's sata controller gets also fried or damaged in the process. I think you are extremely lucky.

As for the sound card. You must test it extensively in order to come to the conclusion that it's fine. The fact that it shows up in windows is a good sign but not a definitive one.