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A7V266-E Hard Disk Failures
Hi,
I have a feeling something is wrong with the primary hard disk cable or the controller of my A7V266-E motherboard. I have two hard drives on my Primary cable -- a Quantum Fireball on the Primary Master and a Maxtor on the Primary Slave. My CD-RW is on the Secondary Master. I've had this setup for a few months without problems. What happens, though, is that recently whenever I turn the computer on after a while, the POST screen will sometimes show "NONE" for the Primary Slave. Upon bootup to the Windows XP desktop, however, it was viewable under My Computer, but sometimes the drive is slow to access and makes clicking noises. Other times, if things were ok at bootup, after at least an hour of using the computer, i'd hear a "cluck" sound and then the desktop would freeze. Once it was after quitting a computer game that uses both the Master drive and the CD-ROM drive, another time it was while burning a CD from the Slave drive, and another time it was while writing an email. So, if I press the Reset button, sometimes the Primary Slave is not seen at POST, and other times the Primary Master is not seen instead (only one drive but not both)! If I turn the PC off and then on, it's back to normal, showing both drives at POST. I've tried using different power supply connectors to the hard drives but i still get the same problem. I tried re-connecting the IDE cables as well. I don't think though that this is a hard disk problem, but rather a problem with the cable or the primary controller. Could I be right? I have now put the Primary Slave onto the Secondary Slave connection now and i'll see if I get any more failures. If the Primary Master fails again, maybe I should buy a new IDE cable and try it out? -Danial |
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D I schrieb:
Hi, I have a feeling something is wrong with the primary hard disk cable or the controller of my A7V266-E motherboard. Warning, you can lose data on your harddisk. Remove all memory modules and use it accurately again. Check your memory. |
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Had one of these. Defective, so I returned it. They sent a "replacement"
but it was screwed up too. Similar symptoms to yours. Change of memory didn't help. Nothing on the MB but HD, floppy, and video card. Threw it in the trash. |
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One thing I forgot to say was that my hard disk problems seemed to have
started since the day I adjusted my noisy Antec hard drive fan in the case (I eventually removed it a week later). I had to push the hard drive a bit away from the fan as well. From doing so I think the hard drive touched the memory sticks, because when I turned on the PC, the Primary Master drive name in POST showed some garbage characters (instead of "Quantum")! So I had to fix up the positioning of the Primary Master and power up again. After reading your post I did take out and re-insert the memory modules (256 x 2 DDR 2100). I now have one hard drive in Primary Master and the other in Secondary Slave. Nothing's on Primary Slave now. So far so good. Danial. Ralf Bartzke wrote: D I schrieb: Hi, I have a feeling something is wrong with the primary hard disk cable or the controller of my A7V266-E motherboard. Warning, you can lose data on your harddisk. Remove all memory modules and use it accurately again. Check your memory. |
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