Pump EMI Interference?

thetoad30 · Post by **thetoad30** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:32 am

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if a watercooling pump could induce EMI into nearby SATA cables or chipsets...

I'm having a meltdown of my C: drive on my computer every time I get it loaded... disk corruptions galore and I've replaced the hard drive 3 times... worst part is is that it's only the C: Drive every time... every other drive is fine no matter what...

It's either the motherboard, the memory, or the pump causing problems, and I'm trying to eliminate.

I have the Swiftech MCP655.

Thank you

Sparkytfl · Post by **Sparkytfl** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:03 am

Well if my resertor is too close to my crt monitor, it makes the display wiggle. It's possible.

thetoad30 · Post by **thetoad30** » Thu May 25, 2006 10:23 am

Ok... Now could it cause interference in one cable but not any of the one's next to it?

Could EMI be that localized?

Thank you

The Cadillac Man · Post by **The Cadillac Man** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:56 pm

Have you tried changing the power cable/sata cable? Back in the IDE days I had a power supply cable with one loose connector that made a drive act like that... it'd hang during formatting, cause the box to lock up randomly etc. Just a thought.

thetoad30 · Post by **thetoad30** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:35 pm

You know what, after I had tried everything else... even swapping out the motherboard... I decided I had nothing to lose by switching the cable... and so far... I have not encountered any of the other problems I was having...

So I hope like heck I have fixed the problem...