Well its definetley either the hard drive or motherboard, we know that. Do you have another computer to test the HDD on or another Sata drive to see if it happens with that drive as well? Either of these will tell you which it is. If the other Sata drive works, RMA the HDD, if the other drive does the same thing, or the same drive does it on another machine, time to RMA your motherboard.
Bad Sata cable/hard drive/mobo?
Okay well i've done a new build here and had it up and running for a while now. I've had this hard drive for just a couple months now and had it in my old computer. I ordered it off newegg to replace my old IDE hard drive. Its a WD Caviar Blue 320gb SATA. It worked fine for a while in the old computer. I did have one problem with it though, I had it logged off on windows all day one time while I was at work, and came home later, and went to log into windows and for some reason it wouldn't type in anything for my password, so I restarted the computer and it wouldn't load back up, and it wouldn't read the hard drive at all. So i pulled it out and went with my ide for the rest of the day, and later put it back in, but with a new sata cable. Boom worked fine never had another problem.
Well here a few weeks ago i bought my new case motherboard and second hard drive. I threw it all together and reformatted and worked fine. But I left it on all night to dl patches for my games, and i noticed when I woke up thew screen was black and was asking to insert proper boot device and restart. I restarted, and it worked fine. Well ever since then I had problems leaving it on for a certain amount of time, especially over night. It was to the point, I had to reset the bios and restart a couple of times,or most of the time, I had to hook the sata cable up into a different plug, just to get it to boot back up.
Well last week i think it was, I did another bios update from asus and it didn't do it at all again and i thought I had fixed it, didn't have one crash. Well just a little bit ago it started doing it again. And it did it 3 times in a row, even on my first time trying to type this post lol. And I had to change the plug the sata cable was in each time just to get it to boot up, or else the bios wont even read the hard drive as being there. I at one point thought it was the video cards, but it would do it on desktop and I switched around the video cards but still crashed.
But I posted this over in Asus's forums and after A long time I just got a post telling me to run mem test. So I did and each stick passed A ok. Then I booted back up and ran prime95 for 2 hours with no problems and super low temps. So I have no clue what it could be, the hard drive, motherboard Sata connectors, or hard drive, only im not leaning twords motherboard since I did have a case on the older motherboard. Thanks for any help you can give!
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PS: Anyone know how long a warranty WD has?
Well here a few weeks ago i bought my new case motherboard and second hard drive. I threw it all together and reformatted and worked fine. But I left it on all night to dl patches for my games, and i noticed when I woke up thew screen was black and was asking to insert proper boot device and restart. I restarted, and it worked fine. Well ever since then I had problems leaving it on for a certain amount of time, especially over night. It was to the point, I had to reset the bios and restart a couple of times,or most of the time, I had to hook the sata cable up into a different plug, just to get it to boot back up.
Well last week i think it was, I did another bios update from asus and it didn't do it at all again and i thought I had fixed it, didn't have one crash. Well just a little bit ago it started doing it again. And it did it 3 times in a row, even on my first time trying to type this post lol. And I had to change the plug the sata cable was in each time just to get it to boot up, or else the bios wont even read the hard drive as being there. I at one point thought it was the video cards, but it would do it on desktop and I switched around the video cards but still crashed.
But I posted this over in Asus's forums and after A long time I just got a post telling me to run mem test. So I did and each stick passed A ok. Then I booted back up and ran prime95 for 2 hours with no problems and super low temps. So I have no clue what it could be, the hard drive, motherboard Sata connectors, or hard drive, only im not leaning twords motherboard since I did have a case on the older motherboard. Thanks for any help you can give!
PS: Anyone know how long a warranty WD has?
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Thanks for the input, gonna try it as soon as I get Home. Hopefully Its the hard drive, which leads me to believe it is since I did have almost the same experience on my old board, but it just happened once, so maybe it has just gotten worse.
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Thx, I'll look into it, But the computer jsut keeps crashing In the middle of windows or games, but at random times. Think the HD is bad
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Originally Posted by Craiga35  Well its definetley either the hard drive or motherboard, we know that. Do you have another computer to test the HDD on or another Sata drive to see if it happens with that drive as well? Either of these will tell you which it is. If the other Sata drive works, RMA the HDD, if the other drive does the same thing, or the same drive does it on another machine, time to RMA your motherboard. |
Thanks for the input, gonna try it as soon as I get Home. Hopefully Its the hard drive, which leads me to believe it is since I did have almost the same experience on my old board, but it just happened once, so maybe it has just gotten worse.
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Originally Posted by webjawns This sounds a little different than what I experienced, but I'll say it anyway... maybe it'll help. I had a similar problem after a BIOS update. I couldn't start my computer, and it said it couldn't find a bootable drive. For me it turned out that I had a setting in the BIOS turned on that made the IDE drives lay on channel 0. I turned that setting off, fixed the boot order, and it worked. Did you mess with any settings or make any changes between the BIOS update and when it stopped working? (This was after unplugging one hard drive at a time, including my DVD drive, etc., fiddling with BIOS settings and rebooting a bunch of times. I thought it was broken for good!) |
Thx, I'll look into it, But the computer jsut keeps crashing In the middle of windows or games, but at random times. Think the HD is bad
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Yeah I Tried all 3 cables I have and they have done the same
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, This hd has a 3 year warranty so I think I'll just send it back just to make sure, and use a spare IDE i have see if it fixes it till the new one comes back
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