been tryin to fix my puter for about two weeks

[EMPshockwave82]

a friend told me it could just be the IDE cable right after i formated (computer would occasionally recognize drive but instead of seeing the 200 gig as "189gb" it would see "181gb" and told me the drive was raw data) .. i just kind of shrugged it off... so tonight i try my roomates ide cable and it works... kinda ticked i didnt listen to the kid in the first place... kinda wanna hurt myself for being so ignorant

 

[nodoubts2k]

Weird

 

[GroundZero]

don't replace the dollar part...
it couldn't be the cable, get a new hdrive instead, and maybe a new mboard and memmory

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: GroundZero
don't replace the dollar part...
it couldn't be the cable, get a new hdrive instead, and maybe a new mboard and memmory

Hardware manufacturer's answer to tech support?

 

[EyeMWing]

Wow. That would've taken me 5 minutes to diagnose and cost you $52 ($20 labor + $30 stupid tax (A flat rate on all my repair calls) + $2 IDE ribbon)

 

[EMPshockwave82]

you cant be too fast at judgement .... originally it was a problem with extremely slow reading from the drive and when sound files were playing and other things loading too it would slow the sound down to a crawling record with your hand holding it back sound.... it started as just a small problem and then the thing just finally blew out i guess

 

[OS]

I have bad luck with 80 conductor cables, for me they often go bad after being bent/reused a couple times. And the thing is, bad IDE cables cause all kinds of HD related problems.

 

[EMPshockwave82]

yea... problem is being fixed now... got round IDE cables on the way