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January 8th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity  |  thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! Well not really fire but tons of smoke... I got my 500GB WD HD and Tt eSATA enclosure today... hooked it all up... powered on the eSATA... then smoke started pouring from my case, only took a few seconds and the room was filled with smoke.... the power wire has fried the yellow wire on one of my molex connectors inside my case... just great.... time to RMA and get a replacement..... and use the drive inside my case for now.....   Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  Last edited by screwballl; January 8th, 2008 at 14:04. |
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January 8th, 2008
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| ako the pinoy  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: by the beach
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| Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! WTF that is scarier than i could ever imagine, i hope your place is alright... thats why i told my wife i'll power down the computer while i'm away for 3 months starting April... and she can only use the laptop.... i think this happened to my Antec NeoHE Psu the whole case smell like smoke and burnt, that when cpu started showing ridiculously high temp... Abit IP35-E C2D E6750 G0 @ 2.66ghz [TR Ultra120EX] EVAG 8800GTS [TR HR03] Corsair [2gbDual@800] 820GB HDD[120/200/500] Antec TP 550W Silverstone Temjin 09 Saitek Eclipse1 & Razer DeathAdder Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity | Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! it was entirely inside the case so no smoke damage... leaving the side of the case open for ventilation. Heres whats left of that power wire:  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Meow means woof in cat.  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL
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| Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! Holy crap! Reminds me of this one post I read at [H] one time where a guys cheap AOPen PSU literally burst into flames. AND KEPT RUNNING! :O Sorry it happened to you man, but be glad it happened while your there, imagine what could have happened had you stepped out of the room or out of the house. Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD |
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January 8th, 2008
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| redrum  | Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! Wow! sorry to hear that.Now im getting the jitters here wondering whats going to happen to mine when / if it powers up,since im doing this with a clueless state of mind.  |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity | Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! The only thing I can think of is the small gauge of that molex wire since it was not coming directly from the power supply. Although I wonder if the same would have happened to the PSU wire as well... hard to say but I have a newegg chat rep in the live chat now Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: PA
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| Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! Whoa, thats insane. SIG Under Construction - working on something new. |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity | Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! ok so I have a free replacement coming, and a $25 Newegg credit for damages to my case. I wasn't expecting that... another reason why I love Newegg. Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Live Hard, Play Long Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Michigan
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| Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! How can an esata connection that carries only data and no power short out this wire. It looks like your blaming the enclosure when your pics are of inside the chassis. This looks to me like a problem with the wiring job or the wiring to the esata port. esata enclosures do not draw power from the esata port. |
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January 8th, 2008
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| Colonel Calamity | Re: thermaltake eSATA FIREEE!! The esata connection also requires power. Some have an external brick, but not this one. This item connects to a 4pin Molex connector inside of the case.  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members. |
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