Turns out that these Crucial drives are known to die when they lose power quickly. I loved this drive and it worked great for like 6 years.and now it's dead. After redoing all the cables and didn't boot. I headed down to the local electronics shop and bought a new 1000W power supply, a new APC BR1000G, and went to town, rebuilding my machine. When it was all over, the main fuse of the house had popped, the UPS was dead and smoking, and the power supply in my computer was dead and smoking. I turned it back on and there was a series of snaps and pops, another screen, followed by a non-trivial amount of smoke and a burning electrical smell. It had turned off suddenly, so the PC and all the accessories were also off. This last week the UPS started a low "scream" so I went over to check it out. I replace just the batteries in my UPS's every 18-24 months. The tower was connected to an APC 850VA UPS that had worked nicely for a while. I've upgraded the memory, video card, and SSD (more on the SSD in a moment) and it's a great machine and very very fast. It's not the Ultimate anymore, but I will say it's still VERY competent. I'm not an electrical engineer so if you know more (and I'm sure you do), do feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.įor my main machine in my home office I'm running the Ultimate PC that Jeff Atwood was so kind to build for me a few years back. I can only tell you what I think happened. I had a massive hardware failure over the holiday weekend.
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