- Aug 4, 2000
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I have a lot of experience with hardware but have a new glitch I don't understand. I have a system I built over a year ago for a customer. It seems to have had problems with hard drives since I built it, although I didn't really think it was a problem. The customer just dropped it by and had a new Seagate 40 GB drive in it. The system recognized the drive but when XP attempted to format it it would always fail. She also brought with it a Maxtor 40 GB that acted similarly. I refdisked them and during they format they would bomb out. So, probably stupidly, I pulled a new 80 GB Maxtor out. XP seemed to fdisk and format and file copy for the install. Then, upon the first reboot, the MB would no longer even recognize the drive. I put it in another machine and it did not recognize it either. I tested the other 2 drives in the other machine and both were not recognized by the system. The problem machine does recognize the 2 CD drives. One thing I did notice was that the Via chipset on the board seemed to get very much hotter than most boards I am experienced with. It is an MSI KT3 Ultra 2 with a via KT600 chipset with an Athlon 2100+ in it. I don't know if a motherboard's IDE data lines could cause a hard drive to fail or if a BIOS virus might have flashed the hard drive BIOS or what might have happened. I am also suspicious that maybe the voltages on the PW might have damaged the hard drive electronics but that is odd when everything else in the box seems ok. Any body with any knowledge on this odd but painful problem I would like to hear from. Thanks in advance.
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