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Pulling my hair out!!!!!!!!
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Posted by: SM2 Inc
I'll try to keep this short and sweet! Built a new comp: Tbird 1Gig AXIA, IWILL KK266, 256M PC-133 Cas 2 (Crucial), Visiontek Geforce 3 64M DDR, Western Digital HD's 13 Gig % 30 Gig, Enlight case with 300W PS, front fan, & slot fan in back.
Now is the hair pulling part...having system freezes at random intervals, hasn't happened during any gaming, HD busy light stays on and after span of about 8-10 mins get all sorts of errors and HD makes some pinging noises. Neither HD is more than a year old. Unfortunately, I don't have another HD to try out. Temperatures seem to be normal from what I have read in the forums. I guess my question is, is there a chance it is anything but the HD? Trying to rule everything else out before I start buying parts! Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
SM2 Inc
Posted by: Null Actor
It's the harddrive. Is it a maxtor by chance?
BTW, if you can still access that drive, BACK UP ALL YOUR STUFF RIGHT NOW. Your drive is only a few days away from being completely unuseable.
I had a harddrive crap out on me a while back. Was a maxtor 48gig 7200 rpm udma100 drive. Was 32 days old when it died.
But there have been some western digital drives that have died the same death at work.
Posted by: SM2 Inc
Man...I was afraid of that!! Now I just got to figure out which one it is. I had had both of them hooked into Primary IDE and I just split them to try and troubleshoot it!
Both of them are Western Digitals.
Thanks for the help!
Posted by: KickingBird
I use IBM deskstars myself <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">
Not really that much better, just different. but they DO seem to have a slightly lower failure rate...
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