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| Thread ID: 95946 | 2008-12-22 07:54:00 | SATA Hard Drive Problem + More | m3dic (14437) | Press F1 |
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| 731831 | 2008-12-22 17:32:00 | I had a similar problem and it was due to my motherboard being an early one with 2 Sata ports. On these boards hard drives are limited to a certain speed (1.5 ghz I think) so I had to fit a jumper to the hard drive to slow them down. That worked fine. But I don't think that is your problem. Sorry can't help other than what the others have said. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 731832 | 2008-12-23 03:55:00 | When you are able - I think you need to test the suspect 500Gb drive on another PC as you mentioned - that way if it doesn't detect then theres the problem, other wise could be chasing your tail going nowhere. IF you have another ( any size) sata drive you can try connecting that and see if it detects, other wise regarding the booting - it could be slow trying to load a faulty drive - have you tried disconnecting it all together and booting ? I have another sata drive identical to the suspect one that has been running for the exact amount of time, and is the same age, and it has no trouble working with the same ports, leads etc. Also with the faulty drive unplugged (the sata unplugged, but the power still in) the boot is faster, but I can't say for certain if it is up to normal speed. I had a similar problem and it was due to my motherboard being an early one with 2 Sata ports. On these boards hard drives are limited to a certain speed (1.5 ghz I think) so I had to fit a jumper to the hard drive to slow them down. That worked fine. But I don't think that is your problem. Sorry can't help other than what the others have said. The motherboard is as new as the hard drives, it has 6 sata ports including esata. Some new symptoms: 1. I started it up without the suspect drive plugged in after over ten hours of being powered down, this afternoon. At the startup screen where the mobo details etc are shown it said "Warning Boot drive failed" or something similar. This has happen ages ago, but it seemed to go away after a restore point. 2. After this fiasco I finally got the desktop up after choosing "start windows normally", and then once I got to the desktop after about 2 minutes the PC restarted itself. But that was almost and hour ago, and nothing strange has happened since. FYI the suspect drive is still unplugged. Excuse my bad grammar, it has been a long hot day at work. |
m3dic (14437) | ||
| 731833 | 2008-12-23 03:59:00 | I would start by running manufacturers diagnostics on all the drives recognised by the PC. Any drives not recognised in the BIOS unplug them from sata and power, often a faulty or dodgy drive can cause problems with the rest of the system. Theres no point in trying to fix a potential windows issue if you don't know if you've got good hardware. I have the same motherboard as you and have had no end of problems with it - nothing like this though. Get the ultimate boot cd, run seatools full scans on all the drives your PC can see (unplug the 'good' 500G drive for this, it will take friggin ages to scan) also run a memtest (86+). I'd run chkdsk /r after that if it all passes OK, and perhaps try chipset driver/BIOS update. You've checked temps in the BIOS and made sure nothings getting too hot? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 731834 | 2008-12-23 04:03:00 | I would start by running manufacturers diagnostics on all the drives recognised by the PC. Any drives not recognised in the BIOS unplug them from sata and power, often a faulty or dodgy drive can cause problems with the rest of the system. Theres no point in trying to fix a potential windows issue if you don't know if you've got good hardware. I have the same motherboard as you and have had no end of problems with it - nothing like this though. Get the ultimate boot cd, run seatools full scans on all the drives your PC can see (unplug the 'good' 500G drive for this, it will take friggin ages to scan) also run a memtest (86+). I'd run chkdsk /r after that if it all passes OK, and perhaps try chipset driver/BIOS update. You've checked temps in the BIOS and made sure nothings getting too hot? I have not checked how hot everything is getting but my room is very well ventilated this time of year, and the computer itself has many a 12" fan in it. What kind of diagnostics do you recommend? Some links would be received kindly. I have also run chkdsk on my "c" drive yesterday which turned up nothing. |
m3dic (14437) | ||
| 731835 | 2008-12-23 04:06:00 | This (www.ultimatebootcd.com/) This (http:) This (www.seagate.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 731836 | 2008-12-23 04:31:00 | One thing you can look at - click start/run type in eventvwr <press enter> When the logs open, look under System look for anything with the red circle and cross saying Error - look to see if it says "disk", apart from stating the obvious that error means the system cant read the drive correctly - meaning it will more than likely be a hardware problem with that drive. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 731837 | 2008-12-23 04:38:00 | One thing you can look at - click start/run type in eventvwr <press enter> When the logs open, look under System look for anything with the red circle and cross saying Error - look to see if it says "disk", apart from stating the obvious that error means the system cant read the drive correctly - meaning it will more than likely be a hardware problem with that drive. The only thing found was this: img389.imageshack.us Which happened last night when I was at the stage of removing hard drives/changing cords. EDIT: A mate is going to test the drive in his PC tomorrow. |
m3dic (14437) | ||
| 731838 | 2008-12-23 04:48:00 | The only thing found was this: img389.imageshack.us That wont cause the prob youre having. You can fix that by doing this 1. Click Start, click Run, type Regedt32, and then click OK. 2. Locate the following registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Browser\Parameters\ 3. Change the value to of MaintainServerList to false. 4. Restart the computer. If the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Browser\Parameters\ MaintainServerList is No, this server is not a browser. If the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Browser\Parameters\ MaintainServerList is Yes, this server becomes a browser. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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