Is there a way to avoid the harddrive corruption on the 680i?

[THA REAPER]

Im sure this probably has came up before, but is there something that can be done to stop my drive from getting corrupt. Its like the drive isn't even in use when it does get corrupted, then when I decide I want to browse files its not accessible. This would be my 6th time reformatting.

Another question is why is this board still even on the market if its not guaranteed to work properly, its a half and half situation it seems from what I read. Besides that I got tons of BSOD's, boot failures from the OS, boot failures when trying to power on, freezing, and a fried circuit on my other hard drive I lost a few yrs work im a producer. When I run the nvidia monitor for a long time the whole system just shuts off. I really want to return this and get something more reliable this board is just so random.

[Methious]

Sounds like inadequate cooling those run hot. Heat build up can cause what your seeing, funky power supply can too. If you fried a circuit on a hard drive I'd be testing the PSU.

[Miker]

Sounds like a bad PSU, no way a Mobo can burn up a HD.

What PSU do you have?r

[THA REAPER]

I have no clue as to why that happend then because the hard drive was doing fine in a old system it was a P3, 512 MB's of ram and a 200 watt PSU

Right after the other one messed up I took another hard drive out of my parts box and it worked just fine. Although the drive that keeps getting corrupted is a usb external. The internal one I have hooked up through IDE is holding up well now.

Heres the PSU im using now. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HER-500W-BULK&cat=PWR

[THA REAPER]

Oh and sorry for the double post but, it definitely wasn't the heat because the side pannel of the case was open. It happened my first time ever seeing the xfx logo on the screen right before the Post test.