Help,
I have a Sony Vaio that I got awhile back from Costco. Its a P-4, 3ghz, 1g ram, 250g maxtor hd...
I added a AIW 9000 pro. Installed XP pro over the home edition that it came with.
I've had a recurring problem with it.
After about 5 months daily use it started having an intermittent problem where it would not find the boot drive when starting up. I did all the sony and ms updates, virus scans etc but nothing seemed to help. I figured it could possibly be a hardware problem so I changed the cable (no help) swapped hd power cables (no help), added my old maxtor 60g hd as master and put the 250g drive as slave. That seemed to work for awhile but the problem came back a month later. I swapped the two drives and the problem didn't come back for another month or so. At this point I figured I better call Sony support but they were no help at all. They said if I wanted make a warrantee claim I had to put it back to its original (as sold) configuration and use the restore cds. Out of frustration I did as they asked, a couple of weeks into it, I put back xp pro. The boot problem didn't come back for a couple months. At this point I reinstalled the 60g drive as slave and then whenever it didn't recognize the 250g hd at boot up it would boot to the 60g hd (funny thing is that when it did boot to the slave 60g hd, the 250g hd was shown (and usable) in windows after the boot.) Thinking again that it was the 250g hd, I went and bought another one. This one came with a ATA133 card (not raid). I first put it in without the ata card (but using the maxtor overlay) and all worked well for awhile. The problem came back so I put both hds on the ATA133 card thinking that its not a hd problem but a motherbd or ide problem,.
Well after all that, the problem is back.
When it does not boot-up, I do the cntl-alt-del to restart and it takes anywhere from 1 restart to around a dozen restarts before it recognizes the hd (either one).
Can anyone help me???
Ferd
I have a Sony Vaio that I got awhile back from Costco. Its a P-4, 3ghz, 1g ram, 250g maxtor hd...
I added a AIW 9000 pro. Installed XP pro over the home edition that it came with.
I've had a recurring problem with it.
After about 5 months daily use it started having an intermittent problem where it would not find the boot drive when starting up. I did all the sony and ms updates, virus scans etc but nothing seemed to help. I figured it could possibly be a hardware problem so I changed the cable (no help) swapped hd power cables (no help), added my old maxtor 60g hd as master and put the 250g drive as slave. That seemed to work for awhile but the problem came back a month later. I swapped the two drives and the problem didn't come back for another month or so. At this point I figured I better call Sony support but they were no help at all. They said if I wanted make a warrantee claim I had to put it back to its original (as sold) configuration and use the restore cds. Out of frustration I did as they asked, a couple of weeks into it, I put back xp pro. The boot problem didn't come back for a couple months. At this point I reinstalled the 60g drive as slave and then whenever it didn't recognize the 250g hd at boot up it would boot to the 60g hd (funny thing is that when it did boot to the slave 60g hd, the 250g hd was shown (and usable) in windows after the boot.) Thinking again that it was the 250g hd, I went and bought another one. This one came with a ATA133 card (not raid). I first put it in without the ata card (but using the maxtor overlay) and all worked well for awhile. The problem came back so I put both hds on the ATA133 card thinking that its not a hd problem but a motherbd or ide problem,.
Well after all that, the problem is back.
When it does not boot-up, I do the cntl-alt-del to restart and it takes anywhere from 1 restart to around a dozen restarts before it recognizes the hd (either one).
Can anyone help me???
Ferd
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