Frying tonight (USB Pens and hard drives that is)...

[Pazza]

Bad luck on several counts over the last few days.. fried 2x USB pen, 2x 500GB Hard Drives and a mouse.

The USB pens were my fault, followed the instructions of someone at work telling me to put the front USB connector into the "black" socket - this was however the firewire socket after discovering my USB pens and a mouse got fried

And last night, put a 500GB HD into my HP Pro-Liant server (whilst powered down - but not turned off at the socket) - thinking this is a caddy-system and hot-swapping HD's should be fine?? Nooo! - server wouldn't boot so tried the other 500GB HD I had - same again Are my HD's not working I ask myself? so I put one into my desktop PC caddy - turned on and a distinctive burning smell arose from my PC so quickly turned off but obviously too late - melted plastic on the HD contacts says it all.

So, I now have 2x 500GB HD's (seagate Barracuda 7200.10) rendered useless - looking around for a replacement PCB appears to cost more than a replacement HD - this is leading to my question - anyone know where I can get cheap replacement PCB boards?

And, do I try my 1TB HD in the server??

[ChaosSystem]

The firewire socket is a different shape to USB, how much force did you use to push the USB into the socket?

What sort of HDDs are they SATA? They should not burn up, even when hot-swapping in a system that does not support it.

What model Proliant server do you have? Have you tried booting a live CD and checking the system from that?

It sounds more like the damage is being done by your desktop caddy system then by the server.

[Pazza]

Nope, the firewire socket on the ASUS P8P67-M REV.3 is the same as the USB ones - just black, not blue.

They are SATA HD's and and tried in the server first and server wouldn't boot and I could smell burning! tried in the PC caddy and that's when the plastic melted on the power contacts of the HD.

Will try to do some diagnostics on the server first prior to plugging in my 1TB HD's

[Pancake]

You on about the internal header? they are the same

[Pazza]

You on about the internal header? they are the same

Yep!

Also, I do have the server up and running with 2x 250gb HD's in so the server itself is fine.