  Hard Drive takes up smoking... input requested  Discussion in
'Other Hardware' started by rhybeka, Nov 11, 2006.    1. rhybeka
Newcomer, in training      forgive my newbieness, but I'm in
need of a bit of assistance.      my 450w power supply had taken
up buzzing sporadically when I was running high end games (ie,
World of Warcraft, etc), and then started buzzing even when I
was only running the OS and surfing the web. I removed a few of
my components, with the sound remaining decided it wasn't a heat
issue, but the power supply was most likely going out. Without
wanting anything fried, I went out and purchased a 600w power
supply. I swapped it out and plugged everything back in. It
booted just fine, just had an issue with the case fan not
starting up (that was my bad, didn't have it plugged into the
PSU). It turned off after POSTing. The second time I booted it,
smoke actually rose from the harddrive, and I got the burnt
rubber smell. Is there such a thing as too much power?
Everything else appears to be o