Re: XP Home rebooting randomly
From: Enkidu (enkidu_at_cliffp.com)
Date: 07/10/04
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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:25:42 +1200
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:35:22 GMT, "WinGuy" <no_spam@nomail.bot> wrote:
>
>The unit that I serviced just last week had a failed HDD. I replaced it. A
>good ways into restoring the operating system the new HDD started to fail.
>It turned out that one of the 2 CD drives had also failed, which I detected
>by disconnecting the HDD booting to dos using a diskette and trying to
>access the CD drives; one was ok, the other was not. Replaced the CD drive
>too, and the unit has not been back with the problem. First time I ever saw
>something on a secondary IDE cause problems, much less a failure, of a
>device on the primary IDE channel.
>
Heh! Remember those Fujitsu HDDs that all failed after a short life?
One of those anywhere on a cable, master or slave, would cause any
other device on the cable to disappear or not work properly.
Cheers,
Cliff
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