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hd ERROR Replace or reset?
Name: Cody (by codyrichter) Date: March 14, 2007 at 18:00:50 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Medi CPU/Ram: 1.5 gigs ram Product: Acer/myself
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Hi, i got a ide 300 gig hd. Keeps giving me write errors. Normaly can play one video file fine, but if you pause it, it gives errors or if youtry to play a new one when its done. I have to restart the comuter everytime this happens. Is it mosltlikey a bad drive or is there some setting i have wrongly set? I have it on the secondary ide chanel set to cable select on an 80 pin cable. thanks, Cody
Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!
Name: jefro Date: March 14, 2007 at 18:20:26 Pacific
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Get the diags from the hard drive mfg. or get generic like the IBM drive tests.
In some odd cases it could be that if the drive has a cache and you set the system for a cache they can conflict. I think it was some scsi drives that were doing that on xp.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.
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Response Number 2
Name: Cody (by codyrichter) Date: March 14, 2007 at 18:28:19 Pacific
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passes every drive test i give it...but it norm failes after abouyt 30 min...somtimes it stops workign during a drive test, but it just frezes up, the test wont fail.
Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!
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Response Number 3
Name: Doctor1954 Date: March 14, 2007 at 20:52:11 Pacific
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Your cable may be 80 wire but I bet it's 40 pin.
If your HDD passes the diagnostics, consider a connection problem or a chipset driver problem.
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Response Number 4
Name: MeOnMine Date: March 15, 2007 at 05:18:36 Pacific
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Remove your 0.5 of RAM and then tell me you have the same problem !
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Response Number 5
Name: Cody (by codyrichter) Date: March 25, 2007 at 10:47:41 Pacific
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nothign to do with the ram happens on multible comps, after 43 hours it was still on 43% with 15 errors, i'm sending it back
Always back up...I JUST LOST 287 gigs entertainment!
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Name: Cody (by codyrichter)
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