advice i can give ..
1) it is possible the controller is faulty. i had a BRAND new drive die
within hours/days when connected to a faulty controller.
2) get a diagnostics program for the drive/controller, unfortunately such
programs do not come cheap, i suggest Microscope, availlable at
www.micr
Hi folks, and happy new year!
We have seen people posting about the kernel error message of
Lost_Interupt (or something similar) reasonably regularly, and then
people usually post back saying 'your HD is about to die, replace it',
and everyone then goes back on with their lives.
I too have had th
I just installed a new Pentium 100 on a ASUS motherboard. The first
thing I noticed was an odd sound coming from my maxtor 1 Gbyte drive.
It sounded kinda like a marble on the end of piece of sping steel
being drawn back and released about an inch from a thin steel plate.
It was a sprong - tic -t
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch)
> can a Motherboard/IDE controller (onboard) destroy a disk drive?
The sound you heard from the disk drive is probably the arm that holds
the heads seeking repeatedly to the point that it hits the stop at one
end of its travel. It can hit that stop repeated
4 matches
Mail list logo
