Okay I have a gay problem with my Maxtor 20gb HD. I have a feeling that its completly gone but I wanted to see if anyone had an idea on whats wrong... maybe its fixable.
Anyway, today I turned on my computer and it booted up fine, but it was reaaallly slow. After dealing with the slowness for quite sometime, the computer finaly crashed. The error the XP gave me said something like... "There was an error blah blah, your computer will be restarted to prevent any damage to your computer." Then it gave me a bunch of other crap about safe mode and how to access it, I think its the XP version of BSOD. So I restarted but for some reason the BIOS did not detect my HD's, only my CDROM. It's done that before, and I usually just turn off the computer for a few mins, turn it back on and it works fine after. So I did that, but it didnt work. I flipped the memory mod's around for somereason, and then the flippin processor wasnt workin at all. I took off my heatsink and it looked as if the thermal paste was gone... I put plently on there before but it seemed to just have disappeared. I put more on and put it all back together and the processor started working fine.
After all that, I decided that I would clear the CMOS memory. After that it still wouldnt detect my HD's. I took the master HD (the maxtor) out and just tried it with my other HD and it worked fine. Then I took the the Maxtor and plugged it into my other computer that I have layin around, and that computer didn't detect it. So, my guess is that its dead. I can hear it spin up when I turn on the computer, so its not power or anything. Anyone have any ideas?
Specs:
MSI K7T-133 Pro 2-A
AMD Tbird 1.1Ghz (was OC'd to 1.25ghz, 36c idle 45c high load)
384 PC133 RAM
Voodoo5 5500 64meg
Maxtor 5400rpm ATA100 HD (the one that won't work)
Western Digital 5400rpm ATA66 HD (one that works)
Windows XP and 98se Dual Boot.
Sorry for my grammar, I am at a LAN place and time = money... I hope it makes sense.
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Gay = Happy or a referance to homosexuality, neither of which applies to any problems you are having with your hard drive. Thoughtless posts like this can only encourage prejudice against others. Another one like this could be your last on our forums.
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Anyway, today I turned on my computer and it booted up fine, but it was reaaallly slow. After dealing with the slowness for quite sometime, the computer finaly crashed. The error the XP gave me said something like... "There was an error blah blah, your computer will be restarted to prevent any damage to your computer." Then it gave me a bunch of other crap about safe mode and how to access it, I think its the XP version of BSOD. So I restarted but for some reason the BIOS did not detect my HD's, only my CDROM. It's done that before, and I usually just turn off the computer for a few mins, turn it back on and it works fine after. So I did that, but it didnt work. I flipped the memory mod's around for somereason, and then the flippin processor wasnt workin at all. I took off my heatsink and it looked as if the thermal paste was gone... I put plently on there before but it seemed to just have disappeared. I put more on and put it all back together and the processor started working fine.
After all that, I decided that I would clear the CMOS memory. After that it still wouldnt detect my HD's. I took the master HD (the maxtor) out and just tried it with my other HD and it worked fine. Then I took the the Maxtor and plugged it into my other computer that I have layin around, and that computer didn't detect it. So, my guess is that its dead. I can hear it spin up when I turn on the computer, so its not power or anything. Anyone have any ideas?
Specs:
MSI K7T-133 Pro 2-A
AMD Tbird 1.1Ghz (was OC'd to 1.25ghz, 36c idle 45c high load)
384 PC133 RAM
Voodoo5 5500 64meg
Maxtor 5400rpm ATA100 HD (the one that won't work)
Western Digital 5400rpm ATA66 HD (one that works)
Windows XP and 98se Dual Boot.
Sorry for my grammar, I am at a LAN place and time = money... I hope it makes sense.
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Gay = Happy or a referance to homosexuality, neither of which applies to any problems you are having with your hard drive. Thoughtless posts like this can only encourage prejudice against others. Another one like this could be your last on our forums.
AnandTech Moderator
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