hd questions??

bld155 · Jan 27, 2003, 12:05 AM

can a power supply cause a hard drive to go bad or any other reasons a hard drive can go bad. also can anybody tell me if my eagle 300w power supply is to blame for this or is overclocking the cpu to blame for this with the pci set to 36mhz. and fsb at 72.5

tigerarmyAFI · Jan 27, 2003, 12:12 AM

what do you mean by "go bad" ? what exactly is wrong with your drive? does reducing the fsb make it better? is the drive completely dead or just malfunctioning or what???

digitalwanderer · Jan 27, 2003, 12:22 AM

...I do know that over-clocking can cause mis-writes to your HD which can cause it to fail, as well as some HDs being REAL picky about what their PCI bus is....but it don't seem like yours is that overclocked.

A bad power supply can cause all KINDS of wierd glitches, they're really hard to pin down sometimes. (Mine was easy, the explosion and the brilliant flash of light and the computer suddenly going dead and the lights going out was a dead give-away.

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fornicatarachnid · Jan 27, 2003, 02:06 AM

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Originally posted by digitalwanderer
. (Mine was easy, the explosion and the brilliant flash of light and the computer suddenly going dead and the lights going out was a dead give-away. )

LOL !

bld155 · Jan 28, 2003, 01:36 AM

in my hard drive going bad i mean that it wont boot xp or 2000sp3 it give a hard drive error(blue screen). when it is in 2000 or xp it locks up when it is under a load like copying files or what not. then when i restart(reset button) the pc after the lockup the hard drive just keeps on reading until i turn the power off completely and and in the western digital program(dlgdiag.exe found on thier site) under quick ckeck it gives me a error #007 or something like that. the first symtom i had before it started doing this was bad sector dectected by windows and a 1sec random restart of the drive and nothing else(all this within a 3-5 days).

i am also ruling the power supply out becouse i have had no errors so for with a old ibm quantum fireball 3gig drive that is temporally in my pc until i can fix my 20gig or buy a new one.

bld155 · Jan 28, 2003, 01:38 AM

p.s. im at regular speed right now and that is 667mhz

tigerarmyAFI · Jan 28, 2003, 06:48 PM

how long have you had the drive? chances are you bought it with a 3 year manufacturer's warranty, meaning you can send it back to them for a replacement if you apply for an RMA (you can usually do this through a form on the manufacturer's website)

peroni · Jan 28, 2003, 09:41 PM

High temperature is one of the major culprit when ruling out the cause for HD failure.
Of course overclocking the pci bus to 36Mhz helped raising the temps.
RMA this one and for the next one make sure to have a fan blowing in front of it.
Also use of some HD temp monitoring tool is highly advised.

Jan 27, 2003, 12:05 AM	#1
bld155 lost Alaskan in the lower 48 Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 31 Rep Power: 0	hd questions?? can a power supply cause a hard drive to go bad or any other reasons a hard drive can go bad. also can anybody tell me if my eagle 300w power supply is to blame for this or is overclocking the cpu to blame for this with the pci set to 36mhz. and fsb at 72.5 __________________ OS:Windows xp home edition sp1 cpufsb software settings: celeron 667mhz@725mhz fsb:72.5mhz;ram:108.7mhz Asus cuw-am 12x/40x DVD;56x cd-rom, 40gig WD hard drive 7200rpm

Jan 27, 2003, 12:12 AM	#2
tigerarmyAFI DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	what do you mean by "go bad" ? what exactly is wrong with your drive? does reducing the fsb make it better? is the drive completely dead or just malfunctioning or what??? __________________ AMD AthlonXP 1800+ ThoroughBred B JIUHB @ 2137MHz Geforce4 Ti 4200 128Mb @ 310/600 (ASUS V8420) ABIT KX-7 333 v1.1 512Mb Micron PC2700 DDR Creative Live! 5.1 Aircooled (45c Full load)

Jan 27, 2003, 12:22 AM	#3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	I ain't an expert on it, but.. ...I do know that over-clocking can cause mis-writes to your HD which can cause it to fail, as well as some HDs being REAL picky about what their PCI bus is....but it don't seem like yours is that overclocked. A bad power supply can cause all KINDS of wierd glitches, they're really hard to pin down sometimes. (Mine was easy, the explosion and the brilliant flash of light and the computer suddenly going dead and the lights going out was a dead give-away. ) __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Jan 28, 2003, 01:36 AM	Thread Starter #5
bld155 lost Alaskan in the lower 48 Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 31 Rep Power: 0	in my hard drive going bad i mean that it wont boot xp or 2000sp3 it give a hard drive error(blue screen). when it is in 2000 or xp it locks up when it is under a load like copying files or what not. then when i restart(reset button) the pc after the lockup the hard drive just keeps on reading until i turn the power off completely and and in the western digital program(dlgdiag.exe found on thier site) under quick ckeck it gives me a error #007 or something like that. the first symtom i had before it started doing this was bad sector dectected by windows and a 1sec random restart of the drive and nothing else(all this within a 3-5 days). i am also ruling the power supply out becouse i have had no errors so for with a old ibm quantum fireball 3gig drive that is temporally in my pc until i can fix my 20gig or buy a new one. __________________ OS:Windows xp home edition sp1 cpufsb software settings: celeron 667mhz@725mhz fsb:72.5mhz;ram:108.7mhz Asus cuw-am 12x/40x DVD;56x cd-rom, 40gig WD hard drive 7200rpm

Jan 28, 2003, 01:38 AM	Thread Starter #6
bld155 lost Alaskan in the lower 48 Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 31 Rep Power: 0	p.s. im at regular speed right now and that is 667mhz __________________ OS:Windows xp home edition sp1 cpufsb software settings: celeron 667mhz@725mhz fsb:72.5mhz;ram:108.7mhz Asus cuw-am 12x/40x DVD;56x cd-rom, 40gig WD hard drive 7200rpm

Jan 28, 2003, 06:48 PM	#7
tigerarmyAFI DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: England Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	how long have you had the drive? chances are you bought it with a 3 year manufacturer's warranty, meaning you can send it back to them for a replacement if you apply for an RMA (you can usually do this through a form on the manufacturer's website) __________________ AMD AthlonXP 1800+ ThoroughBred B JIUHB @ 2137MHz Geforce4 Ti 4200 128Mb @ 310/600 (ASUS V8420) ABIT KX-7 333 v1.1 512Mb Micron PC2700 DDR Creative Live! 5.1 Aircooled (45c Full load)

Jan 28, 2003, 09:41 PM	#8
peroni DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 591 Rep Power: 0	High temperature is one of the major culprit when ruling out the cause for HD failure. Of course overclocking the pci bus to 36Mhz helped raising the temps. RMA this one and for the next one make sure to have a fan blowing in front of it. Also use of some HD temp monitoring tool is highly advised. __________________ Gaming Rig 3DMark2k1 PCMark2k2 The Server 3Dmark2k1 PCMark2k2 Notebook 3Dmark2k1 PCMark2k2