[project1dev] Re: hardware question
- From: Joshua Myers <joshjkm@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 13:01:20 -0700
Hmmmm. Was your computer randomly rebooting before at all?
Sometimes that's a sign of other types of hardware failures. The drive
should be removed and checked in another comp. If the drive is really where
the issues are then it should buck a bit and not want to work reliably when
plugged in as a secondary on another computer. If it's your board or
controller going out then a replacement drive won't save you. It could also
just be some kind of corrupt BS from viral/spyware damages which I've seen
happen before and a reformat could return your reliability to you. Without
more in depth diagnostics I can't give you a definitive answer but at least
that some ideas you could try.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Chris Riccobono <crysalim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know we have a lot of tech people here so maybe you guys can help...
>
> My hard drive has been giving me boot errors the past couple days.
> Three boots ago, I had to restart twice because the drive was giving
> an error on loading the operating system, and then it gave the generic
> boot device not found error.
>
> Two boots ago it did it again, and this time the error came up 4 or 5
> times before I could get into windows.
>
> This morning it did it yet again (I know, I probably should have tried
> to back up my hard drive after the 2nd time right?), only it wouldn't
> fix itself after a few restarts. It happened at least 15-20 times in
> a row, which really started to scare me. I took my comp outside and
> fully dusted it and unplugged/replugged the drive, but it still gave
> me the error.
>
> For some reason it felt like the drive would work right after 'warming
> up' so I left the computer on in an error state for about 20 mins.
> Then it actually booted... I am using it right now while backing up
> stuff.
>
> does anyone know why this happened? Is the drive going bad even tho
> it gives me no errors at all once the computer is fully booted? I
> hope Josh knows something :P
>
>
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