Yea...well I've been having some probs with my system lately...it seems as though the power just shuts off to the HDD randomly, it it a maxtor drive. Could it be that my PSU isnt powerful enough...its like a 380 so i think that might be the prob, what do you think it could be?

brand of the psu? and ur other specs

k...the psu is an Austin...I got a P4 2.0 16x dvd 32x12x40x cd burner 120gb maxtor hdd 200gb WD Caviar SE geforcefx 5900 ultra...i dont remember the brand of my mobo but it was a cheap pos...alsoo running 4 80mm fans and a stock hs and fan

I personally think you don't have enough power. Your probably only off by a few watts. Try unpluging something from the psu. For like a day and see if it still does it. If it still does it the maxtor hdd.

sounds like a pos powersupply ..switch it it for a Fortron 530w

I had a similar prob. Bad molex. Check all of your connections and make sure that your HD is connected directly to the PSU if possible. Otherwise, try switching the HDD molex with a less important fan's molex. If that doesn't work, follow the other posters' ideas.

Switch to a new one and you problay won t have any more power problems.

try unpluging any fancy lighting you might have
I bought some memorex ModZ black light tubes twice
the first one just whent out and the second one shorted my case after about 10 minutes