I have 4 drives. Three are quite new and I think the other one is fairly new. When I first heard high, quick beeps, I unplugged the power cable to the new Seagate 200 and the beeps stopped.
The other day I ran all the drives again and let the beeping go on. The noise stopped sometimes, and I thought it might have something to do with computing rather than a dying drive. Tonight I let it go on, and it stopped for a while but then beeped again insistently, so I unplugged the Seagate's ribbon cable but left the power cable in. When I started up the computer again, it hung on the Intel screen, and I turned off the computer.
This hanging on the Intel screen or getting as far as the first Windows screen and not making it all the way in has been a problem, too. Booting would go back to normal if I detached the drive I suspected of causing this, but after a while another drive would seem to cause it.
I've had several drives crash and got a new motherboard, hoping that would stop it, but things still seem weird.
Is beeping ever normal?
The other day I ran all the drives again and let the beeping go on. The noise stopped sometimes, and I thought it might have something to do with computing rather than a dying drive. Tonight I let it go on, and it stopped for a while but then beeped again insistently, so I unplugged the Seagate's ribbon cable but left the power cable in. When I started up the computer again, it hung on the Intel screen, and I turned off the computer.
This hanging on the Intel screen or getting as far as the first Windows screen and not making it all the way in has been a problem, too. Booting would go back to normal if I detached the drive I suspected of causing this, but after a while another drive would seem to cause it.
I've had several drives crash and got a new motherboard, hoping that would stop it, but things still seem weird.
Is beeping ever normal?
