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ingeborgdot

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I recently purchased some hard drives from a site ichbanpc.com. They had pretty good prices on oem hard drives not refurbished so I was told. I bought several and have used them in computers. All but one have worked great. The one when it was cold would not get past the splash screen. You would have to restart it from 5-10 times before it would go into the os. When in the os there were no problems what so ever as it would run great until it was shut off.

Before we figured out that it was the hd I switched out the mobod, memory, cpu, dvd drive, floppy, and cables. When nothing changed I knew it had to be the hd.

I then called to have it warrantied and find out it is a refurb pulled from a Compaq. They were just ready to warranty it even though my warranty had expired (90days refurb) when they realized they couldn't do it because it had been previously owned. Its manufacture date is only in November so it is not that old.

I am using it as a slave in my computer where it works great, but for some reason it wouldn't work with the other system I built which by the way was 2000 pro os.

Anyone have any ideas why it would do all this and work great when warm and work great as a slave? Also, buy from noteable dealers. I will.
 

Trey22

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1. Paragraphs are your friend.
2. So they sold you a refurb drive as new? If so, I'd fight them on that 90 day (refurb) warranty period.
3. Have you run any disk utilities on that drive to see if any failures are picked up?
 

Luckyboy1

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fishDude, all I can tell you is there's more to buying hardware than a simple price quote. You can do like I did and do all ther research and make all the mistakes only to end up with the what works finally in the end. Hey, by accident of fate I guess according to your attitude, the working results were exactly as Joe advised in the first place!

Before you make snitty remarks, try giving the guy a call!

 

erikistired

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Originally posted by: Luckyboy1
fishDude, all I can tell you is there's more to buying hardware than a simple price quote. You can do like I did and do all ther research and make all the mistakes only to end up with the what works finally in the end. Hey, by accident of fate I guess according to your attitude, the working results were exactly as Joe advised in the first place!

Before you make snitty remarks, try giving the guy a call!

i think my 10+ years buying and building pcs for end users, small businesses and corporations come in more handy then calling joe. thanks tho. ;)
 

erikistired

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Originally posted by: MyStupidMouth
Originally posted by: Luckyboy1
There are reasons gamers spend a few extra bucks for some things, not all at www.magnum-pc.com

Call Joe for an honest quote on an honest system.

wtf

you can probably just save him the time typing it back out and read his reply to my same question (altho i used the confused smiley).
 

Ike0069

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This is the strangest damn thread I've seen since the infamous "crystals" thread.

WTF are you guys talking about?
 

ingeborgdot

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Yeah, I fixed the post. I have that hd as a slave and it seems to be working fine. I have tested and retested, I have done scan disk and repair and I have loaded and deleted and over again testing it out but it seems to work fine as a slave but not so good as a boot up drive.
 

ingeborgdot

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Also, I have a question about why I am not getting these directly to my email. I check the box but it hasn't been coming to me??
 

erikistired

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it usually only reports the first new post, then doesn't send anymore til you check the thread. that way you don't get spammed with emails.
 

mechBgon

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Originally posted by: d3lt4
who is Joe? What is this thread about? I'm so lost.
When drive cold with solution, it only some sides boot up, not all, many cannot.