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Do not buy Hitachi 7K250 for use with ASUS P4C800E

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bcronin

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This combination does not work properly with respect to resuming from S3 standby mode. When you try to resume, the drive makes 4 clicking sounds about a second or two apart and then WinXP dies a horrible death (with all sorts of different errors, but most typically "Unknown Hard Error" and/or a bluescreen with stop code d0000144. ASUS tech support is uninterested in the problem. Hitachi tech support blames it on ASUS not giving the drive enough time to spin up after resume.

If this is an important consideration to you, look elsewhere for your SATA hard drive.
 
Originally posted by: bcronin
This combination does not work properly with respect to resuming from S3 standby mode. When you try to resume, the drive makes 4 clicking sounds about a second or two apart and then WinXP dies a horrible death (with all sorts of different errors, but most typically "Unknown Hard Error" and/or a bluescreen with stop code d0000144. ASUS tech support is uninterested in the problem. Hitachi tech support blames it on ASUS not giving the drive enough time to spin up after resume.

If this is an important consideration to you, look elsewhere for your SATA hard drive.
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You posted this same exact thing at StorageReview too, and it looks like you signed up here just so that you could specifically bash this drive. Why? What a waste of time.

How many other online forum sites have you spammed with this?
 
Just trying to inform as many folks as possible who are concerned with getting hardware that works. If that spamming, I apologize. Fwiw, here's my exchange with Hitachi on the subject (so you can see this is a real problem).

Would you rather get this combo and be impacted by this issue, or would you rather have read about it here first and been forewarned?

Cheers,
BC


Robert,
Contact Asus for a bios update for your system. That is a known issue with
our 7K250 drives and Asus has a fix for their motherboards.

Thank you for contacting Hitachi GST.
Scott S
------------------ In Response To ------------------
Subject: Support feedback from: Robert Cronin

Comments:
I have SATA drive model
HDS722516VLSA80 (160 GB). I am using
Win XP Pro on an ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
motherboard. If I suspend the system
and attempt to resume it, the drive
makes four clicking noises about 1
second apart and then Windows refuses
to start. Sometimes I get a
message "Unknown Hard Error".
Sometimes I get a bluescreen with code
d0000144. The drive works fine on
normal powerup. It just will not work
properly on resume from S3 state. Do
you know of any solution for this
problem

_______________________________
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
888.426.5214
support_usa@hgst.com
www.hitachigst.com
 
What's wrong with the Asus firmware update? I'd bet it works or will they'll make it work. They can't afford to have their mobo's know for something like this....and it is a firmware problem.
 
I hope they do fix this with a BIOS update, but for the moment, this fails with the latest available BIOS (and I have had no luck getting any information from ASUS that they are either aware of the issue or working on a fix).
 
bcronin
Thanks for the heads up.
VirtualLarry
This info is not spam and there is no limit as to how many sites someone can post to. Mentioning one particular drive, being used on one particular mobo, under one partciular OS, hardly seems like bashing. In fact your reply to this post seems more like bashing. Lighten up dude.
 
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