PSU failing on me?

[way2quik]

I have an Antec Neo HE 550, comes with 5yr warranty for this baby.

I have 3 internal hard drives and everytime I access D: and E:, the hard drive is actually powering up. I can even hear the hard drives starting up everytime I access it. This goes for my WD Green 1TB ext hdd as well.

It's a NEO HE 550W. That's a powerful psu considering I do not have anything overclocked with 3 hdd, 1 optical, 3 usb devices, and an 8800gt 512mb.

Is it safe to assume the PSU is starting to die?
Also, does anyone here have experience with Antec warranty?

Thanks.

[tgill]

since its limited to the 2 secondary drives it sounds like the power management settings in windows.

under advanced power settings change it to 0 or never


also caviar greens slow down to minimum rpm on their own when not in use.

[impactX]

When my PSU died, it didn't show any signs... it just died on me.

[CP.AR]

^ same thing with me, i turned it off - the next day it just refused to start again.