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Looks like the hard drive is having issues, but im not sure how to pinpoint the problem. Here it goes;
Going into CMOS checking if i can autodetect the hard drive...no luck, still nothing. It's fairly new, and not sure why it would fail like this. Checked the cable to make sure they are correct and plugged in all the way, and still no boot. Tryed going into fdisk with a boot disk, and no drive detected. Any clues as to why this is happening or any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
oh... i waited about 15 minutes, and the hard drive is being detected again in cmos...except now... it's reporting bad sectors and scandisk wants to do a surface scan. While doing the surface scan, it freezes????? I shut down, and tryed again.. this time, i skipped the scandisk... and its now acting like a 486 . It feels like i have 2 ram on this thing, and everything is slower than mollasses. Durring destkop, it suddenly freezes. Now when i boot again, it says BOOT DISK FAILURE again...
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Certainly sounds like your HDD is toast... If you happen to be able to get it running (doubtful), go to the mfr's web site and download their diagnostics utility.
Try shutting down for an extended period of time and see if it will boot.
If (big if) you can run the mfr's utility, maybe it will tell you something about whats going on.
Regards - Ray
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downloaded "powermax" from the maxtor website, about to try it out...hopefully i can get it to run on the other pc
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??????????... finished the test... and it says : Test Results: PASSED
"Congratulations! Your drive is certified error free!"
This is weird..., ... i wonder why bios sometimes detects the hard drive and sometimes it doesnt.
Tried running windows again, and laggier than molasses again. Any dos programs i run off the hard drive crash after about 10 seconds. Im out of clues, any more suggestions?
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Ill start from scratch to make is easier.
Now that the drive is detected, ill fdisk it and start from there. If that crashes, I'll have no clue what to do. (maybe a ram issue??)
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I switched the hard drives from this pc to the faulty one. The faulty hard drive works on this pc greatly. I tried switching ram, and nothing, ram works fine on this pc, and same problem with the other. I can only think of maybe a conflict with hardware, or a cmos setting is wrong. Ill try some more stuff
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just did full level format, and fdisk, and formatted, and success. Installing windows again, and its lagging like crazy again. Could this be a IEEE Cable issue or something? Im going to try and switch around cables and such. *frustrated to holy heck*...but its fun :P
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I ended up going to the motherboard website (www.jetway.com.tw) and flashing/updating bios. I was thinking since my board is also the same model and brand board, i would try the hard drive on my pc...and it works fine. So i assumed it was a board issue of some kind, either a cable, or a chip of some sort. Anyhow.., i flashed the bios, and the lag went away!!! Somehow some cmos settings was altered before i flashed it that made the pc lag real bad... so after i flashed it, and updated, it works like a charm. ... And to think i almost threw this pc out the window. So apparently it was a CMOS setting that screwed thigns up. Thank god for bios flashing. Nite everyone.
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