motherboard eating hard drives and an ssd

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kmkrreeves1

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It's an intel DG41RQ (~2009 socket LGA775) Some people left it behind in my aunts house she rented out, and just took the hard drive, so she gave it to me when she found it a few years ago. It has a decent pcie graphics cards, and is nice to have sitting on a desk for occasional use...

Originally I had an old hard drive in it with windows 7 installed... It worked fine for a while, but eventually it just started getting slower and slower and triggering random windows disk checks on boot up...

Then I put in two different random old hard drives, and decided I would try to install every windows operating system on a different partition (starting with win 95)... I didn't get very far when it started doing that again, if it was on for more than a few hours it would slow to a crawl and (by windows 8 task manager) couldn't get more than about 1 MB/s from the drive. It would act better after restarting but it would eventually slow down again... then after using it for a while it was doing the disk checks again, so I took the drive out and checked it out on my good desktop, and it had bed sectors and sounded horrible when it was reading.

It seemed odd that it had happened again, but I had two old HDDs sitting on top of each other, not mounted properly so I assumed it could have been a coincidence.

So I bought a new SSD for my good desktop because I wanted more SSD space, and put my old SSD in the old desktop. It was an OCZ Agility series refurbished from newegg, I bought the 2 year warranty on it (which expired 6 months ago) and it worked great in that desktop with no sign of trouble, it didn't slow down with use. then I didn't use the desktop for almost a month and the ssd is dead.

I tried it on a few computers, none of them even see it in the bios, and when plugged in a usb sata adapter, it says I/O device error, but not even that sometimes. I took it apart and there is a blue LED inside that lights up when it has power, but nothing else happens (although it is an ssd so you wouldn't expect to see much)

I can't find anything on the OCZ agility series (the original not 2 or 3) OCZSSD2-1AGT120G. ocz makes no mention of it anywhere, and I remember looking for firmware updates when I got it and couldn't find anything, and the OCZ doesn't have a program compatible with it.

If anyone has any ideas on how to unbrick this SSD and why the heck this desktop eats hard drives that would be great!
 
Probably not the motherboard, could be power supply not supplying enough clean power to them. And you keep saying old and refurbished drives, thats not a good sign anyway especially if they haven't been used in months.
 
So it's probably just a coincidence with all the old drives? I switched power supplies in this PC since the first few drives started acting up. (they are all out of old laptops and stuff, all less than 10 years old, but I know that's kinda old...)

Someone did build this PC, and did a poor job (they left it behind in a house they rented). The screws used for the motherboard are just random screws, and they don't screw in all the way, so the board is pretty loose in spots, This couldn't affect grounding or something and cause problems could it? just a thought...

What about that ssd? I didn't personally put a lot of miles on it, but who knows what it meant by refurbished... Think there's anything that can be done with it? I don't need anything off of it, but seems odd that it showed no sign of problems and is suddenly bricked.

Thanks for reading my long post, sorry it took me so long to get back. I've had a busy week.
 
kmkrreeves1 said:
The screws used for the motherboard are just random screws, and they don't screw in all the way, so the board is pretty loose in spots, This couldn't affect grounding or something and cause problems could it? just a thought...
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Yes, it very well could. Can't have a loose motherboard, that is just asking for problems. If thats the case, then I would look to make sure they used the standoffs between case and motherboard. I for one, would definitely look at how the computer was built if it was a custom built pc and I didn't know who put it together. This board is 8 years old and you have no clue what kind of damage has been done. About the only thing you can do is tear it apart and rebuild it correctly making sure the standoffs are in the correct places and see if you can get it to not kill any more hardware.
 
oh cool, thanks. When I got it and it worked fine with the random drive I had lying around, I didn't inspect it too thoroughly. Guess I should have been a little more suspicious since they took the drive and left the rest... I'll see if I can get it put together correctly and put another old drive in it I guess... haha

Thanks for all your help! and I guess Ill just throw the old ssd in the junk pile...
 
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