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Originally Posted by captobvious
Have you put the motherboard on the risers yet? If not, then that's probably the cause of your problem, not a faulty hard drive. The risers prevent the motherboard from touching the case, which could cause a short circuit. If you screwed the motherboard directly to the case, then it's likely you were creating a short circuit and potentially damaging the motherboard. It's a common mistake for first timers (myself included).
So if you haven't put the risers in, do it immediately! It's much more important than just having the screws fit. Hopefully, that will fix your hard drive issues.
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I put it on the risers the night I read the post about them, before that I just had the mobo sitting in there, but not screwed down.I had figured the shorting issue really early on. I'm pretty sure that its not the mobo because the drive stops working no matter which SATA port I use and when I go into the BIOS system it will recognize my external hd, but it only occasionally finds the internal one. Also, when the comp freezes while doing something, I can unplug the hd SATA connection, then plug it back in and nothing happens, but if I unplug the power for the hd, then plug the power back in, it starts back up and continues the operation until it freezes again (yes i know that unplugging anything with the power on is a really bad idea, but i don't have a spare hd to test with right now).
Right now i'm thinking that the hd is overheating and causing it to cut off(even though the drive is still spinning) because one part of it gets fairly hot and it runs longer if it starts cool.