Long delay before memory check

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Thanks for the reply.
I have SMART turned on, and it indicates that all three drives are
healthy. However, I can see from the front indicator lights that the
hard drives are solidly active at this time. Any other suggestions?


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Since you said that the problem only occurs after the system has
crashed and rebooted, it sounds to me like possibly the crash is being
caused by something going wrong in the HD controllers or something.
Have you tried swapping out the IDE cables with new ones? Perhaps even
a chipset driver update?

Because what it sounds to me like is that some sort of error occurs
while you're in Windows which causes the driver to panic and reboot the
PC. It panics so quickly that it doesn't even bother to reinitialize
the hard disks, and the HDs are inaccessible even to the BIOS after the
reboot, until it settles down after a minute, when the BIOS gains
control over it again.

Also this can be caused by a faulty or underpowered power supply, where
the HDs aren't getting enough juice.

Yousuf Khan

 

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Bitstring <romboc.1v3l7n@news.computerbanter.com>, from the wonderful
person romboc <romboc.1v3l7n@news.computerbanter.com> said
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>I have SMART turned on, and it indicates that all three drives are
>healthy. However, I can see from the front indicator lights that the
>hard drives are solidly active at this time. Any other suggestions?

Unplug all three hard drives and see if the delay goes away. If it does
you know where to look (add them back one at a time ..). If it doesn't
unplug some other things you can live without (everything except the
CPU, memory and video card).

When you have it isolated to 'there is a delay with THIS item plugged
in, there is no delay without it' you'll be in a position to fix it.

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"YKhan" <yjkhan@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126288741.373833.294040@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Since you said that the problem only occurs after the system has
> crashed and rebooted, it sounds to me like possibly the crash is being
> caused by something going wrong in the HD controllers or something.
> Have you tried swapping out the IDE cables with new ones? Perhaps even
> a chipset driver update?
>
> Because what it sounds to me like is that some sort of error occurs
> while you're in Windows which causes the driver to panic and reboot the
> PC. It panics so quickly that it doesn't even bother to reinitialize
> the hard disks, and the HDs are inaccessible even to the BIOS after the
> reboot, until it settles down after a minute, when the BIOS gains
> control over it again.
>
> Also this can be caused by a faulty or underpowered power supply, where
> the HDs aren't getting enough juice.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Maybe it is some sort of disk scan/integrity check, like my old ME system
used to do (frequently) after crashing so hard that power cycling was
required.
>