Win 7

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by tw

How did it get intermittent? Something penetrate it? Sharp bend?

Over time, the card pushed downwards on the data cable near where it's inserted into the drive, until it was not entirely secure.

It was laziness on my part. Newegg reviews explained how the video card was very long, and might not fit into everyone's installation. When I installed it, I noticed that it was touching the SATA cables, but decided not to move the drive. I figured it wouldn't be a problem. It was.

Win 7 actually notified me that there was a problem: without prompting, it found disk corruption and put up a small dialogue box from the right of the taskbar, saying I should run chkdsk.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Newegg reviews explained how the video card was very long, and might not fit into everyone's installation. When I installed it, I noticed that it was touching the SATA cables, but decided not to move the drive. I figured it wouldn't be a problem. It was.

Do cables bundled together physically damage a cable? Or does crosstalk - cabled bundled together - cause interference?

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TW

[Undertoad]

Originally Posted by tw

Do cables bundled together physically damage a cable? Or does crosstalk - cabled bundled together - cause interference?

I've heard no warnings about such things. The hard drive mfrs have always put the power socket right next to the data socket...

[tw]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I've heard no warnings about such things. The hard drive mfrs have always put the power socket right next to the data socket...

So what caused that cable damage? What is it we are not supposed to do to avoid what damage?