Borked PSU? Raid 0 transplant?

[Umfriend]

Hi all,

My work-PC just gave up. I suspect the PSU is gone. When I swith the PSU on, the LED on the MB will burn and when I then press the power switch, one fan will turn a bit but otherwise nothing happens. Moreover, the PSU gives this very high frequency sound.

Makes sense to suspect the PSU then? When it did run I did check voltage via program and seemed just fine.

So I might replace the PSU but I might also chose to purchase/buy a new PC. Only thing is, I have 2 raptors in Raid-0 (nVidia nForce 4 SLI Southbrigde raid controller on MB) and now I wonder wheter I may be succesfull in recovering the data by simply attaching these to any other Raid controller?

Advice appreciated....

[TransformX]

I've had a similar problem and the final verdict was a dead Asus motherboard.
Anyway, having a spare PSU is never a bad thing, so you can buy an el-cheapo one to check it out.

[Umfriend]

Well, I had this before and only if I took the power off the PSU. It so happens I got it to run again and I'll be gettign the data off my RAID to a single HD in there.

It may run well even if I shut down as long as the PSU remains on juice. I'm thinking PSU.

Am I right in saying that most, if not all, Dell computers have only two 3.5"HD bays? I need four...

[Evildead666]

AFAIK most oem's dont have much space for extra drives, unless they have hot swap drive bays.
Some dell's have them, but you're better off buying a case and building it for the price they ask.

[Umfriend]

And how about them RAID-0 drives. Should I be able to just plug m into another controller?

[Umfriend]

So I'll assemble a new PC soon. It's been ages since I actually tried to keep track of developments and I am WAY lost. Couple of questions:

1. I use an Athlon X2 4400+. (S939). Would it be fair to say that you can't get a CPU that slow nowadays?
2. The best GFX I have is either a Radeon 9600 or a GeForce 9600 Go. Would it be fair to say you can;t get cards that slow (aside from Matrox :d) nowadays?
3. I want it *quiet*. Is there any hope of achieving passive cooled CPU (non-water cooled)?

I'm on a budget and want performance. Use SQL Server and Excel a lot so four cores might be usefull.