Judas

Been battling with a few hardrives that appear dead one minute and not the next.

Now i've officially claimed that they are unreliable drives and should be considered "crashed" or basically junkers.

But i'm currious if anyone else has maybe experienced this:


Computer quits working, numerious things are very very wrong (PSU is toasted, fried, motherboard was taken out as well, CPU seems to work but has a tendancy to crash in several other boards)

However other components such as the cd rom or occasionally the ram tend to continue working, video cards, hardrives.. etc.

Heres the problem, The hardrive appears to work one minute and not the next in several different motherboards. You fire it up, and bios doesn't detect it, go into windows and nothing, restart, no bios detection, get into windows, detects it, but POI mode 4 transfers only. And it's random when you start up, but rarely ever see it detect the hd in bios.

Now selecting DMA mode transfers (as this should work in this last case, on a WD 40gb drive i've got), results in absalutely nothing happening.

Now after much fiddling with settings, i'd say the drive is intermittently working. I can see to access the file fine usually all the time. But the drives useless if you want to use it as your main boot drive.

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Zelig

I gave away a 20GB Maxtor drive with problems like that. Installing windows would work, and then random files would be missing on boot.

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H3X4D3C1M4L

Sounds to me like the drive's simply dying in terms of its firmware and the logic boards on it. Drives that have run more or less their entire life span with out some fan on them are susceptable to that