Problems with my Dell GX280

Laura123

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Hello,
My dell gx280 makes a "clicking noise" and then I get a screen that says........

Drive 2 not found:parallel ata, Pata-0 (pri ide master)
Drive 3 not found:parallel ata, Pata-1 (pri ide slave)

Also, it has gotten slower and slower. What can this be?
Thanks, Laura
 

David 617

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you have a hard drive problem. BACK UP EVERYTHING ASAP! You can lose it tomorrow!
ide master/slave is referring to your hard drive. If you still want to use the laptop buy a new hard drive and replace it.
 

Laura123

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This is a desktop pc. I have already had the hard drive relpaced twice and it still makes this noise and gets the messages. However, I went to the Dell website and updated my drivers. Only reason I wanna see if I can do anything else is that I paid the repair place $200.00 to repair it and of course it continued to do this so I dont want to have to spend that again plus more for a new until I am really sure there isnt anything that Can be done. So far it has stayed up for 3 days now without a message but this has happend before. Just wondered if anyone had any other thoughts about this. May very well have to eventually buy another system. Thanks for all your input!!!