Guys,
I recently installed a Seagate Barracuda IV 40G drive in my system (Abit BH6 rev1.02). All was working fine until last night, when my daughter said it locked up twice on her. I looked at the boot sequence, and we went from a successful Win98SE boot and lock, to a DOS NO BOOT DEVICE FOUND, to a floppy only boot situation. I was still able to access the drive from DOS, but even that was shakey. The drive was making a low rumbling/gnashing noise. I had all important data backed up, so as a last resort I gave the case a gentle, but insistent, rap on the top. The rumbling stopped!!
I have a three fan drive cooler (remnant of an IBM 75GXP 30G drive). I pulled the filter door open to find the middle fan spinning very erratically. I stopped the fan by hand, and let it spin back up. No drive peculiarities since. Is it even remotely possible that a fan problem would cause bad power to be sent to the drive? I ask this because the power setup to the drive is this: the fan assembly has a passthrough power connector that plugs into the drive connector. Then the p.s. four pin connector attaches to this passthrough. Could a fan cause this passthrough power to become erratic, thus affecting the drive?
I recently installed a Seagate Barracuda IV 40G drive in my system (Abit BH6 rev1.02). All was working fine until last night, when my daughter said it locked up twice on her. I looked at the boot sequence, and we went from a successful Win98SE boot and lock, to a DOS NO BOOT DEVICE FOUND, to a floppy only boot situation. I was still able to access the drive from DOS, but even that was shakey. The drive was making a low rumbling/gnashing noise. I had all important data backed up, so as a last resort I gave the case a gentle, but insistent, rap on the top. The rumbling stopped!!
I have a three fan drive cooler (remnant of an IBM 75GXP 30G drive). I pulled the filter door open to find the middle fan spinning very erratically. I stopped the fan by hand, and let it spin back up. No drive peculiarities since. Is it even remotely possible that a fan problem would cause bad power to be sent to the drive? I ask this because the power setup to the drive is this: the fan assembly has a passthrough power connector that plugs into the drive connector. Then the p.s. four pin connector attaches to this passthrough. Could a fan cause this passthrough power to become erratic, thus affecting the drive?
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