Re: Catastrophic Hard drive failure
- From: "Bill Marriott" <wjm@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:17:21 -0500
You didn't describe what kind of cooling you have in that system, which I
think would be the most important component given all that stuff you've
got... do you run something like SpeedFan to monitor the temperatures? How
hot does it get in there? I find that a lot of slowdowns and crashes can be
caused by overheating in a rig like yours.
Bill
"ubiquityxx" <ubiquityxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Here's my problem and it's only happened twice (knock on wood) with
> catastrophic hardware failure and the loss of 2 Raptors. The first was a
> newish install of Windows and the second the same install pulled from an
> image.
>
> In Windows working / playing away. system begins to chug and slowly comes
> to
> a crawl. No mouse activity and hard drive freezes with light on. Upon
> reboot
> can enter windows but at logon system goes through same process of
> chugging
> and slowing to a crawl only to freeze; HDD light on. And we're back to
> rebooting.
>
> Safe mode, freeze.
> Command line, freeze.
> Windows reinstall, freeze and login
> Windows clean install, freeze during install.
> Spinrite (in DOS), freeze (first drive 5 blocks / second 235 blocks into
> the
> process)
>
> So 2 things come to my mind. It's a virus or a hardware conflict I'm
> unaware
> of. I'm posting just to see if anyone has had this issue - or if any of
> you
> know of a virus that does just what I described.
>
> I've since done a clean reinstall of windows on my other SATA 250GB drive.
> And everything is working so far. Sent back the first Raptor to WD and the
> second is getting RMA'd.
>
> I'll post with an update if the situation changes. With the advent of
> imaging I won't have to do another install as I imaged a base install -
> I'm
> really getting too old for this.
>
> If anyone has a recommendation for fixing a hard drive surface or a better
> low level scanner and formatter than spinrite - please advise away. See
> below
> for systems specs.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> No overclocking of any components. Only throttling video card with
> Rivatuner.
> Asus A8N SLI
> 2x1GB PQI DDR 3200 RAM (slots 1 and 3)
> 2x74GB Raptor 10k HDs (not in RAID but first was used as boot)
> 2xMaxtor 250GB HDs (1 PATA / 1 SATA)
> 1 XFX Geforce GTX 7800 256MB (overclocked version)
> Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty (includes breakout box)
> Dell Ultrasharp 2405 display (USB hub / 9 in 1 interface)
> Windows XP SP2 (quick note - no issues surfaced until this last weeks
> (11.8.05) patch).
> 600w Seasonic PSU
> *******not important but may hlp****************
> USB Saitek keyboard / Logitech mouse
> Wacom Intuos 3 tablet
> M-Audio Firewire 410
> External drives - Maxtor 300GB and Seagate 160GB USB
> Floppy (I broke down and bought one - lol)
>
>
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