Drive caugth fire and still working!!!!

Mangas · 08-10-06, 09:53 AM

Hello there
The strangest thing happen to one drive that ive just bought (second hand)Seagate SATA ST3120026A Barracuda 120GB, when I plug it in to the pc the computer dinted turn on at all after several tries it turn on but next minute when I look there was a little fire coming out from the bottom of the drive, ive turn the computer off and toke the drive out, then I notice a little tiny chip or what that was looked totaly toasted, I pick it out clean the drive on the spot where the chip was then guess what? ive plug it back and it was still working!!! I installed the OS in it and is still working fine!!!
Did this ever happen to anyone?

KillrBuckeye · 08-10-06, 09:58 AM

Oh yes, it's normal for drives to catch on fire the first time they are powered up. It has happened to me serveral times.

In all seriousness, no I've never heard of this happening. Could you please post some pictures of the "toasted chip" on the bottom of the drive?

Mangas · 08-10-06, 10:18 AM

Im think is the one that ive marked with the red circle, I got this picture on the net, is the same model as the one that I got, later on at home I will make sure if that was the one that burn if not I will rectify and post it again.
The real one that burn is in the bin already so no chance of taking picture there...

KillrBuckeye · 08-10-06, 10:22 AM

The drive in the picture looks like a SATA drive to me. Your HDD is IDE interface, right?

Mangas · 08-10-06, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by KillrBuckeye

The drive in the picture looks like a SATA drive to me. Your HDD is IDE interface, right?

Nope, its SATA got 2 of those!
Ive put the worong model number not ST3120026A but ST3120026AS

KillrBuckeye · 08-10-06, 11:57 AM

You didn't by chance connect both the SATA power connector and the regular 4-pin molex, did you? Only one should be hooked up.

jivetrky · 08-10-06, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by KillrBuckeye

You didn't by chance connect both the SATA power connector and the regular 4-pin molex, did you? Only one should be hooked up.

yep, that's what I was thinking

BossBorot · 08-10-06, 02:22 PM

Ive had a hdd pcb catch fire but not work again.... lucky b**tard

edit: I only lost a 20 gb pata drive though.

Nephewkp · 08-10-06, 02:42 PM

I had a 6.4GB hard drive catch on fire. It produced a ton of smoke too. Freaked me out since it was during the first run of a new build.

CrackerD|ce · 08-10-06, 02:47 PM

No fire, but fried none the less. Screwed the board up, I was ****ed at the time it happened.

Havoc_ · 08-10-06, 03:24 PM

Fortuantely I have never set fire to anything in my computer .........yet. I did see a friends computer once that had the cpu itself hae a large bubble on it that formed when he said the computer was making a noise.

Mangas · 08-11-06, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by KillrBuckeye

You didn't by chance connect both the SATA power connector and the regular 4-pin molex, did you? Only one should be hooked up.

Only SATA even if I wanted to connect a regular 4-pin molex, Its impossible it doesnt have a regular 4-pin molex!!
Im installing everything, as soon ive got the web cam plug to it I will take a picture a posted for everyone see and tell me what the hell that was that bunt.

Skeith · 08-11-06, 05:01 AM

Looks to me like it might be a Diode or Zener Diode.
Cant say for certain cause I cant read the markings on it.

Max0r · 08-11-06, 05:15 AM

Hahaha, that's awesome! I wish I had the same luck with that VH6 years ago!

SeasonalEclipse · 08-11-06, 08:37 AM

Id totally return it though and get a newone.. or at least not use it in a system you have running 24/7 unless if you are after home insurance.

jivetrky · 08-11-06, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mangas

Only SATA even if I wanted to connect a regular 4-pin molex, Its impossible it doesnt have a regular 4-pin molex!!
Im installing everything, as soon ive got the web cam plug to it I will take a picture a posted for everyone see and tell me what the hell that was that bunt.

Many SATA drive do/did come with both power connectors, that's why we asked.

dittohead · 08-11-06, 10:48 AM

i had the same thing!!
probably same hdd too
120 or 160gb sata hdd

caught on fire.. but i was on a sata card on a duron 1800
didnt work afterwards

White_Pawn · 08-11-06, 10:55 AM

thats freaking amazing. hasn't happened to me though. i got a sata 160gig

Mangas · 08-11-06, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by jivetrky

Many SATA drive do/did come with both power connectors, that's why we asked.

didnt knew that, always learning

deathman20 · 08-11-06, 12:31 PM

Nice.. Suprised it is still working though.

Then again I basically fried the ram in a computer once and it is still working 4 years later. But the board only lasted 1.5 years after that happened and a ram regulator bit the dust with a nice little flame for its fuenral.

08-10-06, 09:53 AM	Thread Starter #1
Mangas Registered Join Date: Aug 2006	Drive caugth fire and still working!!!! Hello there The strangest thing happen to one drive that ive just bought (second hand)Seagate SATA ST3120026A Barracuda 120GB, when I plug it in to the pc the computer dinted turn on at all after several tries it turn on but next minute when I look there was a little fire coming out from the bottom of the drive, ive turn the computer off and toke the drive out, then I notice a little tiny chip or what that was looked totaly toasted, I pick it out clean the drive on the spot where the chip was then guess what? ive plug it back and it was still working!!! I installed the OS in it and is still working fine!!! Did this ever happen to anyone?
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08-10-06, 09:58 AM	#2
KillrBuckeye Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Livonia, MI	Oh yes, it's normal for drives to catch on fire the first time they are powered up. It has happened to me serveral times. In all seriousness, no I've never heard of this happening. Could you please post some pictures of the "toasted chip" on the bottom of the drive? __________________ KillrBuckeye *Scarlet: i7 3770K @ 4.4 GHz (1.19V), Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H, 16GB (2x8GB) GSkill Ripjaws DDR3 1600, eVGA 8800GT, OCZ Vertex 3 120GB, WD 750GB Black, Samsung EcoGreen 2TB, SB Audigy 2, Corsair 450VX, Dell 2005FPW + ASUS VH226H, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit *Gray: Q6600 G0 @ 3.4 GHz (3789, 1.31V), Abit IP35-E, 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400, HD 5450, OCZ Agility 60GB SSD, Corsair CX500* http://www.killrbuckeye.com
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08-10-06, 10:18 AM	Thread Starter #3
Mangas Registered Join Date: Aug 2006	Im think is the one that ive marked with the red circle, I got this picture on the net, is the same model as the one that I got, later on at home I will make sure if that was the one that burn if not I will rectify and post it again. The real one that burn is in the bin already so no chance of taking picture there...
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08-10-06, 10:22 AM	#4
KillrBuckeye Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Livonia, MI	The drive in the picture looks like a SATA drive to me. Your HDD is IDE interface, right? __________________ KillrBuckeye *Scarlet: i7 3770K @ 4.4 GHz (1.19V), Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H, 16GB (2x8GB) GSkill Ripjaws DDR3 1600, eVGA 8800GT, OCZ Vertex 3 120GB, WD 750GB Black, Samsung EcoGreen 2TB, SB Audigy 2, Corsair 450VX, Dell 2005FPW + ASUS VH226H, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit *Gray: Q6600 G0 @ 3.4 GHz (3789, 1.31V), Abit IP35-E, 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400, HD 5450, OCZ Agility 60GB SSD, Corsair CX500* http://www.killrbuckeye.com
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08-10-06, 11:57 AM	#6
KillrBuckeye Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Livonia, MI	You didn't by chance connect both the SATA power connector and the regular 4-pin molex, did you? Only one should be hooked up. __________________ KillrBuckeye *Scarlet: i7 3770K @ 4.4 GHz (1.19V), Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H, 16GB (2x8GB) GSkill Ripjaws DDR3 1600, eVGA 8800GT, OCZ Vertex 3 120GB, WD 750GB Black, Samsung EcoGreen 2TB, SB Audigy 2, Corsair 450VX, Dell 2005FPW + ASUS VH226H, Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit *Gray: Q6600 G0 @ 3.4 GHz (3789, 1.31V), Abit IP35-E, 2x2GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400, HD 5450, OCZ Agility 60GB SSD, Corsair CX500* http://www.killrbuckeye.com
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08-10-06, 02:22 PM	#8
BossBorot Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: SCU Santa Clara CA	Ive had a hdd pcb catch fire but not work again.... lucky b**tard edit: I only lost a 20 gb pata drive though. __________________ Heatware
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08-10-06, 02:42 PM	#9
Nephewkp Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Champaign, Illinois	I had a 6.4GB hard drive catch on fire. It produced a ton of smoke too. Freaked me out since it was during the first run of a new build.
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08-10-06, 02:47 PM	#10
CrackerD\|ce Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lilburn, GA	No fire, but fried none the less. Screwed the board up, I was ****ed at the time it happened.
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08-10-06, 03:24 PM	#11
Havoc_ Registered Join Date: Apr 2001	Fortuantely I have never set fire to anything in my computer .........yet. I did see a friends computer once that had the cpu itself hae a large bubble on it that formed when he said the computer was making a noise.
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08-11-06, 05:01 AM	#13
Skeith Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Winnipeg Manitoba	Looks to me like it might be a Diode or Zener Diode. Cant say for certain cause I cant read the markings on it. __________________ File Server: AMD Semperon 2500+ @ 2104.3MHz (10.5 x 200) 1.9v \| ABIT NF7-Sv2 Mobo - Tai Pan Bios \| WD 20GB IDE (System) - Seagate 320GB SATA (Storage) xfx NVIDIA Ge-force 5200 128MB 333Mhz/500Mhz (Vcore 1.70v/Vmem 3.00v) \| 1024MB DDR Dual Channel (2x512 PC3200) UltraValue 2.5-2-2-7 Web Server: Dual PIII 450/256/100/2.0 \| 768MB PC100 SDRAM \| 6.4GB Quantum Fireball (main) \| 6.4GB WD Caviar (FTP Storage) Laptop: -Dell Inspiron 6400- Intel Core2Duo 1.66GHz \| 2x512MB DDR2 667MHz RAM \| 120GB SATA HDD 7200RPM \| ATI x1400 Mobility 256MB PCIe Graphics \| Creative Soundblaster HD MB I don't care about what it was designed to do. I care about what it CAN do!
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08-11-06, 05:15 AM	#14
Max0r Member Join Date: Oct 2005	Hahaha, that's awesome! I wish I had the same luck with that VH6 years ago! __________________ What was your biggest performance jump ever? - Lapping can yield large temp reductions Heat
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08-11-06, 08:37 AM	#15
SeasonalEclipse Member Join Date: Feb 2006	Id totally return it though and get a newone.. or at least not use it in a system you have running 24/7 unless if you are after home insurance. __________________ The Beast(Main)- P5QL/EPU, Q9550, 4GB DDR2 800, 2X320GB Perp, 750GB Cavalier,8800GT(for now) Corsair 750 Watt PSU, Enermax server case, 2x Dell 1908WFP, Vista Home http://heatware.com/eval.php?id=51210
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08-11-06, 10:48 AM	#17
dittohead Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: London, UK	i had the same thing!! probably same hdd too 120 or 160gb sata hdd caught on fire.. but i was on a sata card on a duron 1800 didnt work afterwards
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08-11-06, 10:55 AM	#18
White_Pawn Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Vancouver, Canada	thats freaking amazing. hasn't happened to me though. i got a sata 160gig __________________ - - M a i n R i g - - E2140 @ 375 x 8 = 3ghz w/ 1.3375v ^Tuniq Tower 120^ Gigabyte P35-S3L powercolor HD4890 @ 850/975 OCZ System 1337s 2x1 5-5-5-15 2T @ 450mhz. 2TB 7200.12+ Seagate Silverstone Decathalon 650W Modular
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08-11-06, 12:31 PM	#20
deathman20 High Speed Senior Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Where the Cheese Heads Live	Nice.. Suprised it is still working though. Then again I basically fried the ram in a computer once and it is still working 4 years later. But the board only lasted 1.5 years after that happened and a ram regulator bit the dust with a nice little flame for its fuenral. __________________ -=The Gamer=- MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) \| i5 2500k @ 4.5Ghz \| 1.3875V \| 28C Idle / 65C Load (LinX) 8Gig G.Skill Ripjaw PC3-12800 9-9-9-24 @ 1600Mhz w/ 1.5V \| TR Ultra eXtreme 120 w/ 2 Fans Sapphire 7950 VaporX 1150/1500 w/ 1.2V/1.5V \| 32C Idle / 64C Load \| 2x 128Gig Crucial M4 SSD's BitFenix Shinobi Window Case \| SilverStone DA750 \| Dell 2405FPW 24" Screen -=The Server=- Synology DS1511+ \| Dual Core 1.8Ghz CPU \| 30C Idle / 38C Load 3 Gig PC2-6400 \| 3x Samsung F4 2TB Raid5 \| 2x Samsung F4 2TB Heat
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