xxEmoxKidxx Posted:

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First up, not all of those hard drives are even plugged in My bad, they might be, can’t really tell though. Second, most of the ones that have power don’t have any data connection to the motherboard. So if we make the generous bumumption that this picture makes sense in some way, then I’d say the owner must be testing to see if their PSU provides enough power to run that many hard drives by connecting them one group at a time.

Also that’s not a bluescreen error, it’s running Memtest86 (I’ve become very, very familiar with that program in recent times, don’t ask why, it’s a long story and not even interesting to me) so maybe his check for whether it has enough power is whether the RAM still works properly. Or generally whether the system is stable enough to do something with all the drives attached, because checking the RAM specifically would be a stupid way to test the power provided.

man-man edited this message on 03/30/2010 9:17AM