At 11:03 AM 3/29/2007, you wrote:
Janos Dohanics wrote:
I also ran the Seagate drive utility which found no problems with the
drive. When the same kind of crash happened again, I thought the problem
may be the IDE controller, I have replaced the motherboard.
Now it crashed again with the new motherboard - and I don't know what
should I do next: should I just replace an apparently good hard drive?
If you know the drive is good (e.g. by testing it in another machine), the
first thing you should replace is the power supply. Weird drive behavior
is often a sign of weak PSUs.
FWIW, I tested the power supply with an inexpensive power supply tester; it
checked out. I guess I should replace it, nonetheless...
Also, if this is just a hard drive crash, shouldn't the system keep
going?
So, you're saying that if a drive starts giving invalid or
noninterpretable communications back to the IDE controller, causing the
controller to wedge, which possibly brings down the PCI bus on which it's
connecte, tied to the front side bus and the CPU, the OS should just
continue? On what?
I guess you make a good point: the fact that the system wedges, points to
something other than the drive. Still, it's always the same drive that quits...
Janos Dohanics
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