Click of Death??

[FlasHBurN]

Ok I was having what sounded like the click of death on one of my ibm drives , except it sorta sounded more like the power was cutting in and out occasionally. Well I advance rma'ed a new one, but I believe its doing the same thing, so Im guessing it might not be the hard drive... any ideas?

 

[MaxImuMAdVaNtAgE]

stupid idea, but it's all i can think of off the top of my head...is the cable in good shape? is it seated all the way on the board?

i have an ibm hdd and it got a bit goofey last month, they have some decent utils on their webpage, click the link (http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/dft-v210.exe) to download the drive fitness test...

MaxImuM

 

[FlasHBurN]

Thanks! im gonna go check the cable and download their utils!

 

[FlasHBurN]

I ran the diag tools and it found nothing wrong with my hard drives....yet it still occasionally loses power?

 

[kazeakuma]

When does it do it? After you don't access it for a while? If so then it could be your power management powering down the drives after a while. What OS you running?

 

[FlasHBurN]

Im running Windows 2000. I turned off power management just to see if it would still do it, and it does, its completely random and most times if I try to access that drive after it does that I get a BSOD or it reboots, that is after it freezes for like a minute trying to read the drive..

 

[kazeakuma]

I'm not much of a hardware guy, more software but I'll try.
I'm guessing that you have another drive from the way you're talking. What ATA speed do you have the controller running at? 66 or 100? if 100 do you have a 80 wire cable and not 40?

 

[shathal]

Urm - under-sized PSU?

If you get the odd (unexpected) reboot, it could well be that you are having difficulties with your power ...

Can you borrow a higher-rated PSU from a mate or so to play around with it for a while?

 

[FlasHBurN]

Its set at 66. I also have another hd set as my master, the one losing power is my slave.
And its a 300w psu (sparkle) that Ive had for a while with basically the same system config. and no problems until now.

thanks

 

[kazeakuma]

Shathal - He's getting a click from the drive before it happens though. And only when he accesses the drive.

What mobo you running? And what drive is it? 75GXP?

 

[FlasHBurN]

Its a Asus P3V4X, and the drive thats having the problem is an IBM 14.4gb 30gxp I believe..

the replacement they sent me is actually a little bit larger, 15.2gb.

 

[FlasHBurN]

Any ideas??