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September 5th 07, 01:50 AM
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Hiccuping hard drives
I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of
drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change. 
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September 5th 07, 02:29 AM
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clear your CMOS and let the bios redetect your hardware
"NickM61" wrote in message ups.com... I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change.
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September 5th 07, 02:33 AM
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Hiccuping hard drives
Thanks I'll try.
On Sep 4, 8:29 pm, "JAD" john wrote: clear your CMOS and let the bios redetect your hardware "NickM61" wrote in message ups.com... I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
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September 5th 07, 03:28 AM
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Hiccuping hard drives
On Sep 4, 8:33 pm, NickM61 wrote:
Thanks I'll try. On Sep 4, 8:29 pm, "JAD" john wrote: clear your CMOS and let the bios redetect your hardware "NickM61" wrote in message oups.com... I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - CMOS reset as per ASUS manual and no change. When I hit the reset button, same drive noises.
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September 5th 07, 03:43 AM
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"NickM61" wrote in message ps.com... On Sep 4, 8:33 pm, NickM61 wrote: Thanks I'll try. On Sep 4, 8:29 pm, "JAD" john wrote: clear your CMOS and let the bios redetect your hardware "NickM61" wrote in message oups.com... I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - CMOS reset as per ASUS manual and no change. When I hit the reset button, same drive noises. Positive its the HD and not the PSU clicking and whining?
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September 5th 07, 03:36 PM
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Hiccuping hard drives
"NickM61" wrote in message ps.com... On Sep 4, 8:33 pm, NickM61 wrote: Thanks I'll try. On Sep 4, 8:29 pm, "JAD" john wrote: clear your CMOS and let the bios redetect your hardware "NickM61" wrote in message oups.com... I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - CMOS reset as per ASUS manual and no change. When I hit the reset button, same drive noises. Try new drive cable. Is drive detected in BIOS? If you have seperate cable/controller for optical drive, test HD on that cable and controller. Mike.
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September 5th 07, 10:53 PM
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On Sep 5, 9:36 am, "Michael Hawes"
wrote: "NickM61" wrote in message ps.com... On Sep 4, 8:33 pm, NickM61 wrote: Thanks I'll try. On Sep 4, 8:29 pm, "JAD" john wrote: clear your CMOS and let the bios redetect your hardware "NickM61" wrote in message oups.com... I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical replacement drive and the same thing happens. Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP) SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I possible hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared. It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no change.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - CMOS reset as per ASUS manual and no change. When I hit the reset button, same drive noises. Try new drive cable. Is drive detected in BIOS? If you have seperate cable/controller for optical drive, test HD on that cable and controller. Mike.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - The sounds only occur on a soft reset. I have since reset the CMOS and am not sure if the sound will continue. I'm avoiding the reset switch and a keyboard reboot for now. This is a SATA RAID 0 array. I initially tried disconnecting the two boot drives in the array and connecting the single replacement. The same sounds occurred with the new drive. I figured nothing was wrong with the drives aftear all though they were no longer being recognized and I could not boot. I then successfully restored a partition backup on the raid array using Acronis by boot CD. The drives are still not being recognized. The partition was set as primary. Currently, I'm validating the backup partition. Its have done and will probably check out. My new assumptions are that since the restore partition worked: The drives are ok The sata cables are ok The power supply is ok Could the sata raid ports be damaged?
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