Dead 60gxp owners, how did yours go out?

[spazntwich1]

I've had my 60GXP since last July, and it hasn't given me a bit of trouble up to now. I can't say it's so much as hiccupped as long as I've had it.

Except for today.

I was in the middle of a game of Aliens vs. Predator 2 when everything froze, and sound started looping. I could task manager kill the program, but things weren't quite right in windows after that. Start menu wasn't and such.

I ctrl+alt+deleted in an attempt to log off, and when I tried to log off, I got a strange blue stop screen saying I had a "hard error" of some sort, and I had to reboot. My computer hung at POST the next 3 soft reboots, right where it was detecting IDE devices. I powered off, made sure my IDE cable and power cable to the HD were firmly in place, and then booted up again. I got halfway through loading windows, and then I got another blue stop screen saying "Unreadable Boot Device". It said to remove any newly installed hard drives and check for viruses.

Well, I hadn't installed anything recently, hardware OR software, so I know something's wrong with my HD.

Over the course of the day, I've managed to boot into Windows successfully and back up all of my data, but I think this thing might die on me soon. Has anyone else's 60gxp done this to them, or am I in a semi-unique situation?

 

[larciel]

click click... dead.

just got 120gxp for replacement

 

[AluminumStudios]

I don't own an IBM (thank God) but a number of people were saying it was a heat problem with some chip used on the drive. It's good that you have your data backed up, but if you need to get it to run longer before replacing it, perhaps having a fan blow on it would keep it running for a while.

 

[spazntwich1]

<< click click... dead.

just got 120gxp for replacement >>



You mean you RMA'd it, and they sent a 120GXP to replace it?

 

[staticfly]

click click dead...click click dead... click click dead...

I could hear a dead IBM from a mile away, 3 for me. bought 2 for a raid setup, 1 doa, 2nd dead in 3 months, replaced, and died again out of warrenty.

I have 1 left... I think its got a 3 year warrenty, i almost hope it dies, i want a 120gpx

 

[wasamicron]

I didn't hear any clicking noise like so many describe. Mine failed suddenly. System froze, then when I attempted to reboot, a dos looking box popped up that displayed an ending task message for all my running programs. Then, hard disk error after reboot. Attempted to format drive, but drive would start making a scraping noise after about 10% complete. Ran IBM diagnostics so I could RMA drive. Still waiting on replacement HD to ship. Not sure what to do with it....might try to trade it

 

[Nessism]

Just got my 75GPX RMA back and they sent me a refurb drive. Hope they learned something and fixed the problem. I really expect more from IBM.

Wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall at IBM during some of the damage control meetings over these drives. I'll bet their was a lot of finger pointing going on.

 

[wasamicron]

<< Just got my 75GPX RMA back and they sent me a refurb drive. >>


hmm...my hd was only 3 months old....i'm gonna be pissed if they send me a damn refurbished drive, especially one that is older than what I had. Grrrrrr......IBM 'prolly having trouble keepin' up with all the RMA's. They received mine on the 9th, and replacement hasn't shipped yet.:|

 

[Mltsao]

I bought a 60Gig 60GXP from dell about a month ago, working well so far.


If it gets screwed up it may be my first and last IBM drive until they make better stuff.