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Strange Hard Drive Failure Problem
I built my son a machine about 3 months ago from parts of other
machines laying around. His 60 gig hd that had been perfectly fine prior to that point failed immediately. So I replaced it with a 40gig that had been laying around. It worked about a week and failed. So I thought maybe it's a power supply problem, and I replaced the supply and put in my old 200g hd. That has worked for about 6 weeks. Now it is starting to fail. I hear a tapping noise once or twicw. Then the machine freezes. Anyone have any idea what's going on. Is it possible that the motherboard has a problem? |
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On Jan 24, 9:30*pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
wrote: I built my son a machine about 3 months ago from parts of other machines laying around. *His 60 gig hd that had been perfectly fine prior to that point failed immediately. *So I replaced it with a 40gig that had been laying around. *It worked about *a week and failed. *So I thought maybe it's a power supply problem, and I replaced the supply and put in my old 200g hd. *That has worked for about 6 weeks. *Now it is starting to fail. *I hear a tapping noise once or twicw. Then the machine freezes. *Anyone have any idea what's going on. *Is it possible that the motherboard has a problem? So I assume you tested to see that those failed hard drives are actually failed by putting them back in your own system right? Have you turned SMART monitoring on in the BIOS? * * * * Yousuf Khan I did recheck the drives in another machine. They remained dead. The 3rd drive is working again. I changed the power supply yet again and eliminated Ituneshelper which seemed to cause the drive to grind forever on bootup. Not sure why it's working, but it is. Hopefully, everything will stay working now. |
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On Jan 25, 8:11*pm, wrote:
I did recheck the drives in another machine. They remained dead. The 3rd drive is working again. *I changed thepower supplyyet again and eliminated Ituneshelper which seemed to cause the drive to grind forever on bootup. Not sure why it's working, but it is. It’s probably not working. For example, the original power supply could have always been defective. Normal is for a defective supply to still boot a computer. But since you used shotgunning (not numbers), then you still don't know what was or was not defective. Any labor should result in a list of what is definitively good and definitively bad. You list still has zero items listed. Nothing was accomplished. For the power supply 'system' (which is more than just a power supply), then means numbers from a 3.5 digit multimeter. Then a definitive answer exists and you stop shotgunning power supplies. After the power supply system is known good, only then move on to other suspect and don't even look back. You are still wondering which power supply is defective. Both could still be defective based upon what has been learned even after all that labor. Also important is information from the system (event) logs, Device manager, and maybe even the Disk Manager. IOW long before fixing or replacing anything, first, one gets these facts. Responsible computer manufacturers provide comprehensive hardware diagnostics with their machine. You don't have that. So download those diagnostics from each component manufacturer. What did the disk drive diagnostics report? But again, first identify the problem before replacing or swapping anything. You will probably be back with the same problem. Use these concepts to save time and finally fix it. Don't shotgun. |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:11:49 -0600, CJT wrote:
wrote: On Jan 24, 9:30 pm, Yousuf Khan wrote: wrote: I built my son a machine about 3 months ago from parts of other machines laying around. His 60 gig hd that had been perfectly fine prior to that point failed immediately. So I replaced it with a 40gig that had been laying around. It worked about a week and failed. So I thought maybe it's a power supply problem, and I replaced the supply and put in my old 200g hd. That has worked for about 6 weeks. Now it is starting to fail. I hear a tapping noise once or twicw. Then the machine freezes. Anyone have any idea what's going on. Is it possible that the motherboard has a problem? So I assume you tested to see that those failed hard drives are actually failed by putting them back in your own system right? Have you turned SMART monitoring on in the BIOS? Yousuf Khan I did recheck the drives in another machine. They remained dead. The 3rd drive is working again. I changed the power supply yet again and eliminated Ituneshelper which seemed to cause the drive to grind forever on bootup. Not sure why it's working, but it is. Hopefully, everything will stay working now. They're probably overheating. Check temperatures. That's my thinking too. There is also a (remote) possibility that your son would rather have a new and better machine and is (inadvertently) causing the drives to fail. You could try a SSD drive. |
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