Can a motherboard damage a harddisk?

[matej bazec]

Hi everybody.

I have a very particular problem with my system. I ensembled
a PC on an abit kt7a motherboard and it worked fine for few years.
But suddenly the harddisk got some bad sectors and after a week it
became unusable. So I replaced it. But also this one became damaged
after a month. So I installed a third one (this time an old one)
and also this became damaged. I also tried to install the disks
on a different machine and ran some diagnostic tools on that
machine. It was clear that harddisks were damaged.

Has anyone any idea what can be wrong. The power supply seems to work
fine. Also the two CD devices connected to the secondary IDE work fine.
Everything else is working fine. Is it possible that something went
wrong with motherboard?

Thank you.

 

[Clive]

Yes motherboards can, a friends had such a board a couple of years ago
which killed 3 drives.

But its much more likely to be the PSU or the stability of your mains
supply (do you get lots of brown outs or spikes?).

Also you could try a new PSU (make it a different make and model from
the current one just incase) or put some form of spike suppressor/power
conditioner on the power.

 

[Dave Hau]

You may also want to check the cooling of your hard drives. Ideally you
should have a case fan in front of the drive bay. There should also be a
fan in the back of the case blowing air in the opposite direction as the
front case fans.

- Dave

 

[Rod Speed]

You may also want to check the cooling of your hard drives.

Yes, but thats best done by checking the drive temps with
a ute like SpeedFan to see if they are getting too hot.

Ideally you should have a case fan in front of the drive bay.
There should also be a fan in the back of the case blowing
air in the opposite direction as the front case fans.

ONLY if the drives are MEASURED to get too hot.

No point in bothering if they arent and then you dont
have to wear the inevitable noise of those fans.