I'm reparing a computer for somebody where the IDE drive has some weird problems.
If you make a fresh install win Win98 after a couple of days the system gets unstable and Windows gives a blue screen that it can't write to C: (which is the HD) anymore and you have to restart the PC. Then scandisk pops up and starts scanning for bad sectors and hangs at 16% you only hear some noice from the drive once a minute. If your shutdown scandisk the computer won't boot any further.
I think it a lack of power (he only has a 250 W PSU with a AMD 1,1 GHz comp with 2 CDROMs and several PCI cards), but could it also be the drive which is bad, it's a Quantum Fireball Plus AS.
After formatting the disk the comp runs fine for about a week but then scandisk starts detecting harddisk problems, but if I scan with Norton Diskdoctor it don't find any bad sectors.
My case has so many fans that it hovers above the ground .
If you make a fresh install win Win98 after a couple of days the system gets unstable and Windows gives a blue screen that it can't write to C: (which is the HD) anymore and you have to restart the PC. Then scandisk pops up and starts scanning for bad sectors and hangs at 16% you only hear some noice from the drive once a minute. If your shutdown scandisk the computer won't boot any further.
I think it a lack of power (he only has a 250 W PSU with a AMD 1,1 GHz comp with 2 CDROMs and several PCI cards), but could it also be the drive which is bad, it's a Quantum Fireball Plus AS.
After formatting the disk the comp runs fine for about a week but then scandisk starts detecting harddisk problems, but if I scan with Norton Diskdoctor it don't find any bad sectors.
My case has so many fans that it hovers above the ground .