External Hardrive Enclosure Problems

somedude969 · 01-06-2008, 11:55 PM

Well i have upgraded my computer quite a bit, everything except the hard drive, motherboard and chip are new. Turns out i should have replaced the motherboard/chip earlier because one got fried and cooked the other. I originally took it to a computer repair because i thought it was the HDD and i bought a new HDD and was having the computer repair person put it in and install the OS when he called me and said the HDD wasn't bad. (blah)

Anyway it would cost about 350 (including his costs) to get a new motherboard and chip, and i want to upgrade my HDD so i just left the new one in there. I took my old HDD out and installed it in a Antec 100 external hardrive enclosure...it seems to run fine with everything and would stay on while i scanned it with my backup desktop computer. For financial reasons i can't get my upgraded comp for a while so i was playing games and such off of my old HDD in its enclosure.

Nothings wrong with my backup computer at all and is basically new pre-built comp yet after an hour or two, and this is only while i was playing games off of it, my computer freezes then reboots itself. I felt the HDD enclosure (which is aluminum and without a fan, and also completely sealed with no air holes) was overheating. SO i took a fan trained it on it and was able to last 2 hours then my comp froze again, the HDD heats up faster then my fan cal cool it down so i opened up the front in (it slides in and out) and was able to last two hours before it froze...no improvement.

So my questions is....how to i stop it from freezing? Is it just a bad case even though i can do everything else for over two hours without it freezing (copying files...moving...running and accessing programs/files) is my part of my HDD bad or something even though i haven't noticed any corrupting (months before my motherboard/chip went out by backup on that HDD (was partitioned) went out if that helps). I'm at a lost...do i need to get a HDD enclosure with a fan...or is it a bad case or even my HDD in the case is going out? Or could it be something in my backup comp? Both my backup comps HDD and my original is a Sata drive and its being connected by a USB port.....Help me please!

01-06-2008, 11:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
somedude969 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1 OS: win media center 05	External Hardrive Enclosure Problems Well i have upgraded my computer quite a bit, everything except the hard drive, motherboard and chip are new. Turns out i should have replaced the motherboard/chip earlier because one got fried and cooked the other. I originally took it to a computer repair because i thought it was the HDD and i bought a new HDD and was having the computer repair person put it in and install the OS when he called me and said the HDD wasn't bad. (blah) Anyway it would cost about 350 (including his costs) to get a new motherboard and chip, and i want to upgrade my HDD so i just left the new one in there. I took my old HDD out and installed it in a Antec 100 external hardrive enclosure...it seems to run fine with everything and would stay on while i scanned it with my backup desktop computer. For financial reasons i can't get my upgraded comp for a while so i was playing games and such off of my old HDD in its enclosure. Nothings wrong with my backup computer at all and is basically new pre-built comp yet after an hour or two, and this is only while i was playing games off of it, my computer freezes then reboots itself. I felt the HDD enclosure (which is aluminum and without a fan, and also completely sealed with no air holes) was overheating. SO i took a fan trained it on it and was able to last 2 hours then my comp froze again, the HDD heats up faster then my fan cal cool it down so i opened up the front in (it slides in and out) and was able to last two hours before it froze...no improvement. So my questions is....how to i stop it from freezing? Is it just a bad case even though i can do everything else for over two hours without it freezing (copying files...moving...running and accessing programs/files) is my part of my HDD bad or something even though i haven't noticed any corrupting (months before my motherboard/chip went out by backup on that HDD (was partitioned) went out if that helps). I'm at a lost...do i need to get a HDD enclosure with a fan...or is it a bad case or even my HDD in the case is going out? Or could it be something in my backup comp? Both my backup comps HDD and my original is a Sata drive and its being connected by a USB port.....Help me please!