Hi all,
We have a troublemaker inside our PC and suspicion is on the 500GB WD secondary hard drive.
E2160
Abit IP35-E
2x1GB G.Skill DDR2-800 (passes Memtest)
EVGA 7600GT
Samsung Spinpoint HD161HJ 160GB - seems okay
WD Caviar WD5000AAKS 500GB - is who I suspect
Antec Earthwatts EA380
Windows XP Pro SP3 x86
symptoms:
- copying/moving large 700MB+ media files between partitions in the WD or from the WD to spinpoint disk causes system hang and automatic restart after couple of minutes.
- Avira antivir scans on WD partitions sometimes cause similar hang and restart.
- Samsung is the primary system and data disk. Whenever access is restricted to Samsung no problems occur.
- Running defrag on WD partitions cause hang and restart.
- surprisingly am able to play the media files stored in the WD drive using VLC player with no issues so far. It's only the other kinds of accesses to the disk that seem to cause problems.
- [EDIT] running md5sum on copies of the same 700MB+ files takes seconds in Spinpoint while it takes forever or sometimes hangs and restarts in the WD drive.
I was wondering how to go about unravelling this mystery?
Thank you people.
We have a troublemaker inside our PC and suspicion is on the 500GB WD secondary hard drive.
E2160
Abit IP35-E
2x1GB G.Skill DDR2-800 (passes Memtest)
EVGA 7600GT
Samsung Spinpoint HD161HJ 160GB - seems okay
WD Caviar WD5000AAKS 500GB - is who I suspect
Antec Earthwatts EA380
Windows XP Pro SP3 x86
symptoms:
- copying/moving large 700MB+ media files between partitions in the WD or from the WD to spinpoint disk causes system hang and automatic restart after couple of minutes.
- Avira antivir scans on WD partitions sometimes cause similar hang and restart.
- Samsung is the primary system and data disk. Whenever access is restricted to Samsung no problems occur.
- Running defrag on WD partitions cause hang and restart.
- surprisingly am able to play the media files stored in the WD drive using VLC player with no issues so far. It's only the other kinds of accesses to the disk that seem to cause problems.
- [EDIT] running md5sum on copies of the same 700MB+ files takes seconds in Spinpoint while it takes forever or sometimes hangs and restarts in the WD drive.
I was wondering how to go about unravelling this mystery?
Thank you people.