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Old 05-25-2005, 09:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hard Drive Unstable?

For the past few weeks, the computer seems to freeze once in awhile in the middle of a task and sometimes, the big blue screen of death even appears and the whole system crashes.

After the crash occurred, sometimes, the BIOS failed to detect the SATA hard drive and sometime it does detect it. I ran some scan on the hard drive itself with SeaTool from Seagate's website and it didn't detect any problem. So, I thought it might've been related to the OS, so I restored the OS's backup image I made a few weeks ago and that didn't solve the problem any better.

Anybody got any idea what might be the problem?

AMD 64 3000+
200 GB Seagate 7200 RPM SATA (Primary)
160 GB Seagate 7200 RPM ATA
1GB Kingston RAM
Windows XP SP2

Also, is it possible to merge a primary parition to a logical parition without having to lose any part of the OS?
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Old 05-26-2005, 06:27 PM   #2 (permalink)
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$10 says its your motherboard. I had the exact same thing happen to my system. The SATA chip flipped out, causing a slow cascade of failures that eventually took out my entire system. The SATA chip caused my hard drive to do some crazy power surge or something, which caused the power supply to blip, which made my processor unstable at anything faster than 1400Mhz (its a barton 3200+) and also the RAM unstable at anything faster than 133Mhz (its PC3200).

I replaced the motherboard when everything went to hell, thinking that the new mobo would fix it, but it was already too late. My system is still limping along, but I basically need to replace the entire computer before it'll ever be stable again.
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Old 05-27-2005, 01:28 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I'm with skaven on this one. It's hilarious the shit I've done, and the things that happen to the boards I've had, and sometimes they work fine afterwards. Then I'll buy something new and have it for a few weeks and it will completely crap out on me for no good reason.

Then there's the normal, boring motherboards.

But I don't like to talk about those.
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