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| Thread ID: 98804 | 2009-04-07 22:42:00 | HDD made of gravel | sammo450 (13626) | Press F1 |
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| 763061 | 2009-04-07 22:42:00 | Hi all, I recently got my PC fixed after a few weeks of having no BIOS. However, very dissapointingly, my HDD sounds like the reader head bearings are made of gravel. Does this mean I need to get a new HDD? It's only a couple of months old. Also my video card, which was working, is now not working. The BIOS beeps 'no video card or bad video RAM'. A PCI video card works fine. I thought maybe the fact that the BIOS is reporting 0V on the 12V rail could have caused either of these problems. A physical check on a molex connector verified that there is 12V on it. Perhaps I need an 8pin in the mobo, as at the moment I only have a 4pin ATX connector in. |
sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 763062 | 2009-04-07 22:49:00 | If your hard drive is making grinding noises, I'd back up all your data asap! | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 763063 | 2009-04-07 22:54:00 | If its only a couple of months old then do what utopian201 said & then take it into the people you bought it from if it was a retail store | Nictech (14748) | ||
| 763064 | 2009-04-07 22:54:00 | If your hard drive is making grinding noises, I'd back up all your data asap! +1 Yes, and if you can, do it from a linux live CD or a BART PE/UBCD4Win try reseating the GFX card. Sounds like this could be a bad PSU affecting other parts.. |
Blam (54) | ||
| 763065 | 2009-04-07 23:02:00 | Why do you suggest using a linux disc? | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 763066 | 2009-04-07 23:06:00 | Less use of the hard drive. When you boot up into an OS there are many read/write cycles. That hard drive looks like it'll fail soon so minimizing read/write cycles would be good idea |
Blam (54) | ||
| 763067 | 2009-04-07 23:59:00 | Hi all, I recently got my PC fixed after a few weeks of having no BIOS. HDD sounds like the reader head bearings are made of gravel. Also my video card, which was working, is now not working. The BIOS beeps 'no video card or bad video RAM'. A PCI video card works fine. BIOS is reporting 0V on the 12V rail Hard drive failing. Stuffed graphics. Motherboard still dodgy. Go back to the shop and get all 3 sorted properly. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 763068 | 2009-04-08 00:25:00 | Thing is it's a different motherboard. Someone from another forum sent it to me. It seems all right, but you think it's the motherboard causing issues? | sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 763069 | 2009-04-08 03:09:00 | Sorry about the double post, When I drag windows around the screen, they move really slowly, kind of scanning along. Is that just the video card(Trident 9440) having trouble? Or does it bode of something much worse? |
sammo450 (13626) | ||
| 763070 | 2009-04-08 04:14:00 | Are the latest drivers (from the ATI site, NOT MS) installed? | wratterus (105) | ||
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