Ip35 pro frying hard drives?

[mr jones]

What a pain in the ass. Had this computer going for over a year, no problems. The other day it crashed the hard drive. Now that hard drive is unusable in any computer and even if you plug it in as a slave, no other computer will boot up, even from a cd. That was a sata drive. So I had a spare ide drive that I reinstalled windows on, restored important files from the backup I had and everything was good again for 3 days. Another identical crash, now the ide drive is the same as the sata drive. No computer I plug it into will boot, and it's only set to be a slave. What the hell could render 2 different drives unusable in that way? Any help is appreciated, cuz I'm tearing out my hair. Ip35 pro with xp installed. My brother says bios or motherboard, but I'm bettin that's too easy. I'm wondering if there was a bad ass virus in the backup drive that just did the same thing to the second drive.

[IgorHW]

Maybe your PSU killed them. How old is it?

[mr jones]

It's 1 year old, to the day! Everything in it is 1 year old.

[BUFF]

it would seem very odd that 2 entirely different controllers (JMicron & Intel ICH0) would pack up exactly the same way within days of each other.
i would suspect that something else is going on.

[mr jones]

Yeah, I think the mb is ok, and I'm thinking power supply. But so far it's only attacked system disks and left storage disks alone. The only other thing I can think of is a virus. Feels "malicious" to me.

[mr jones]

Well, I've taken the computer from the owner, reinstalled windows on a new hard drive. All drivers, and windows updates are done. Tested ram with memtest86 for 15 hours. no errors. Worked good for a week, now BSOD 4 times in the last 12 hours. Once just by unplugging the power to my scanner that was hooked up to usb. I have the 4 dump files, but don't know how to attach them to this post.