[windows2000] Re: OT: Hard Drive
- From: "Charles R. Buchanan" <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:55:34 -0700
I run XP most of the time because Vista doesn't play well with the
Soundblaster Card I have and I refuse to go out and buy a $200+
soundcard, so it (HD) does spin down for no apparent reason and when
shutting down, the computer will stop because (I think) XP is waiting
for the drive. At least that is my impression because it (XP) only does
that when the drive stops.
This only happens to the one drive. I have three others installed by the
way.
Thanks Scott
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:22:04 -0700 (PDT), Scott Williams <srwms@xxxxxxxxx> took
time to say the following:
> It might be the device driver in Vista.
>
> Spinning down a drive is considered by some to be an optimization
> with the intention of improving the drive lifespan and reducing power,
> heat, and noise...
>
> That should not be the case at boot time though.
>
>
> If this is the only such drive under similar circumstances, with the
> same driver, RMA seems like a good choice.
>
> You could run it under XP for a while if you aer into experiments.
>
> Nothing more uncomfortable than not being able to boot reliably.
> Drives are cheap.
>
> Scott Williams
>
> "Charles R. Buchanan" <daphatbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Have a hard drive that I think is defective. (again) I'm not certain
> > though, thus this message. :-)
> >
> > At first I thought it was something that Vista did because that is when
> > i first noticed it when I was running Vista. The hard drive would spin
> > down for no apparent reason. I would fire up XP and it wouldn't do
> > that.
> >
> > However, of late, the drive sometimes don't spin up enough to be
> > recognized by the BIOS during startup. I have to restart the computer
> > once, and sometimes more than once in order to have it recognized. I was
> > thinking it might be a power thing, but I feel I have ruled that out.
> >
> > So I'll probably wiped it and RMA it. Any thoughts?
When a computer dies, does it see a blue screen?
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