IBM 75GXP problems from Athlon 1.2 & Win2000?!?!?!?

[kw3276]

I spoke with customer support today and I was hoping someone could explain this to me.

I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, 60GB IBM 75GXP, and I'm running Windows 2000. My hard drive recently started having bad clusters and the CHKDSK function wouldn't really fix anything. IBM TS told me that because of the speed in which the Athlon is able to shut down Windows, and subsequently the system, that the 2MB cache is unable to unload(???) and therefore I need to ERASE the disk using their DISK FITNESS TEST utility and that, from now on, I should set up my BIOS to not shut down automatically.

I'm trying to find as much information about this as possible, but if someone could link to a thread or article, I'd REALLY appreciate it.

Thanks.:Q

 

[kw3276]

ok, sorry to waste your time, I just realized I'm SOOL.

Has anyone had failures with the "Windows 98 IDE Hard Drive Cache Package (Q273017)" patch that I'm reading about?

 

[MGMorden]

They told me the same thing. I'm not accepting any of that though. The 75GXP series of drives has been trouble for a long time. Keep at them long enough and they'll send you a new drive.

 

[cockeyed]

I had the bad sector problem with my 75GXP. My machine would shutdown almost instantly, until I installed the Win98 shutdown delay. I did a re-format and installed the Win98 shutdown delay and it has been fine now for about 2 months. My machine now shuts down normally as it would with a slower CPU. My CPU is an Intel P3-700 so a faster CPU might even cause a bigger problem. The shutdown delay worked for me!