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A strange HD crashing....
Drnick:
As another computer tech in the house I am with the "replace the pata/sata convertor club" and as for BBS and Baud, oh god I remember that. The very first time I dialled into another computer with my wonderfully powerful 14.4k. At least the other end didn't ask me if I wanted to play a game.
Yenome:
rofl i remember when my friend got a 14.4 we was like omg its sooo fast. course his father ran a big BBS in the southeast so we could sit at the console if we wanted.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: shmokes on July 26, 2012, 01:19:15 am ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on July 25, 2012, 10:29:51 am ---a 250 watt power supply hasn't been an option for purchase for quite some time now. most manufaturers have moved to 500 and larger for their full sizes supplies. therefore we can determine
a:) the supply is several years old. stuff don't last like it used to.
b:) with 3 harddrives, the main board, and cd rom drive, is loaded probably to the maximum.
c:) caps are shot in it.
given A + B = C, replace the power supply.
--- End quote ---
You forgot D:) his power supply works fine. A faulty power supply cannot, PHYSICALLY CANNOT cause the problem described. Even if A), B), and C) in your hypothetical all turned out to be true, even if he truly should just get a power supply for . . . ---smurfing--- . . . the fun of it, cos everyone with 250 watt supplies should just automatically go out and ---smurfing--- replace them even if the power supply has never caused any problem whatsoever (like, for example, this case) . . . the power supply could not cause the problem described in the OP. It's physically ---smurfing--- impossible. Not unlikely . . . IMPOSSIBLE. So, while y'all have a little circle jerk about what an unreasonable ---uvula--- I am, how about actually addressing how I am wrong. I mean, I give you some slack lilshawn, cos you're apparently just some guy who likes computers. But this is supposedly Ark's profession. He has no idea how to do his own job.
--- End quote ---
Yes you are right, don't worry you are the best computer/lawyer/politician/doctor/child psychologist/rocket scientist/laureate on the planet. Now please do not waste any more of your precious time dealing with us mere plebs.
Thank you for your time. ::)
kahlid74:
If the draw for the entire system at the time of power up including the HDD in question is more than the PSU can handle, it's possible that the line providing power to said HDD was given lower than tolerable draw preventing the HDD in question for actually spinning up. Once all other systems cold booted to lower draw, the power cable can be re-jostled and give the questionable HDD a jump start.
While I have witnessed the above before it is very rare and I feel that while replacing the PSU was a good choice (250 is likely an old/crappy PSU) the HDD should be further examined as the culprit. Did you run any diagnostics against said HDD? Did you update the firmware on the HDD?
lilshawn:
both seagate and maxtor have drive diagnostic utillities on their websites.
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3&lang=en
http://www.seagate.com/support/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/ld25-series/seatools-win-master/
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