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jmisr37   03-12-2003 at 11:38:58 PM

I've had two hard drives fail in the last week. The system had run rock stable for the last 2 years. The second failure was a brand new replacement of the first HD.

I'm afraid that I've got other problems besides the HD. Where should I check? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

P3 1Ghz
Intel 815 chipset
256 MBit PC133 RAM
FAILED 80GBit WD special edition

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tastim   03-13-2003 at 01:00:12 AM
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Perhaps your power supply is frying them by giving too much voltage? Get a voltimeter and check it out.

Also are you sure it's the Hard Drive and not an IDE channel on your motherboard?

If not one of these two, maybe you just got unlucky.

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jmisr37   03-13-2003 at 03:12:04 AM
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Good suggestions.

How would I check the IDE channels?

What is proper the voltage level?


Thanks.

Both times the drives failed, I got a blue screen saying that there was a problem writing to the C: drive, the machine was totally locked and then the drive would refuse to boot on restart.

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