Bios recognized the new hard drive three/four times and after that drive was gone

pinky10

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Hello, I'm very angry right now, just bought Seagate 1TB ST1000DM003 (mb GA-8I915p) and tried to partition It which went ok, but durion windows Installation computer stopped working, after resetting the computer bios couldn't recognize the hard drive anymore, my guess is something went wrong with the hard disk, because I tried 2 other SATA drive (also tried changing cable and ports) that I have and bios did recognize those two but that new drive..... she just left... and nobody seen her since...
 

nickrr7001

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Have you reset the cmos yet? Take out the battery in your mobo and put it back in (Looks like a watch battery). Also try a different hdd if you have one on hand and see if it is recognized.
 

pinky10

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unfortunately I did that too, and in the first screen Is mentioned that bios been set to default, but no still nothing in bios, and I tried with 2 other HDD and their sata as well but these are being recognized

the first screen looks like this :
..... blah blah.. ....
Mem test ok 25341223blaah21621
memory channel interleaved ->>> (here there's a long pause which is very obvious something's up If I take the drive out this long pause would go away)

detecting IDE drive:
none
none
none
HL DS blah (dvd)
 

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Ok now this seems like a memory issue, try booting with only one stick of ram at a time

 

pinky10

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It was the hard drive, I wen to where I bought it from and somebody there said something is wrong with this hard and probably it's cylinder got loos or something... anyways it wasn't bios and I apologize to my dear motherboard for calling him names.
 

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I'm even madder now, I took the failed hard drive to guaranty and they gave me a brand new one (same model ST1000DM003), I came home and partitioned it with windows XP CD, then installed windows XP everything seems OK, then I opened HD tune to check the drive health, All fields in the right side of the screen were OK but at the bottom this field "(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count" was in "Warning"
right beneath this filed was saying that this could be caused by a damaged cable so I changed to two other cables but the warnings didn't go away...so I'm even madder at this hard drive because I'm not sure that weather guaranty will accept this one as well or not, because the previous hard drive was failed so hilariously that made me feel safe about what happened and the fact that what happened couldn't be my fault... but this second one hasn't failed and I'm thinking maybe there's a problem with this Seagate Model (ST1000DM003) and my motherboard (GA-8I915p)
 

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Reset your cmos and tell me if that changes anything

 

pinky10

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No, I reset the cmos but nothing changed...
I repartitioned the hard drive (first time I didn't partition 10GB which I was saving for linux) and I partitioned that 10GB as well, so before the warnings count were 1200 and now they are 1700 (which kinda makes sense) here's a picture of HD tune:
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You know, my motherboard's SATA ports are SATA rev.1 (1.5 Gbit/s) and this Hard Drive (ST1000DM003) specs say:
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6Gb/s

well could that be the source of this problem? is it OK to plug a SATA 6GB/s to a SATA port (SATA rev 1=1.5 Gbit/s)

(Yes I know they are backward compatible and I know that this Hard drive is working because we installed a windows on it for crying out loud so the port is ok with a 6Gb/s drive........... I'm just saying couldn't that cause some sort of error like in our situation here? )

(Are there different cables for SATA3 than SATA1?)
 

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