Samsung F3 dying? (Asus P8P67)

Johnny Girth · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:45

Hello folks.

Anyone had any issues with this drive/motherboard?

Drive is a 2nd drive (1TB, most applications, music etc.) to a C300 SSD Windows 7 drive. CPU = 2500k @ 4.5 and there's 8GB of ram. Also another 2TB drive in there.

In my old Core 2 machine the drive ran flawlessly. Now it's starting behaving strangely. Access seems to disappear to it sometimes which causes windows to die. The PC then fails to reboot - it gets stuck at the windows loading screen and I have to hard power off, cut power to the drive and reboot. That works. The hard drive then seems to come back to life when plugged back in but is prone to doing the same after any length of time.

I've now backed everything up but I'd rather it didn't die. It's in the SATA II port in the motherboard if that makes any difference.

Any thoughts or is the HD just on its way out?

Surveyor · 10 Nov 2011 at 23:49

It could be the HDD or maybe it's just the SATA data cable.

Do you have a B2 or B3 revision of the motherboard?

Broken Hope · 11 Nov 2011 at 20:20

What firmware is the drive on there, there's an update available for some drives

Johnny Girth · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:13

Hi
The motherboard is a B3 revision - not sure how to check the firmware on the HD though. I've noticed that it's starting to make some clicking noises which I'm guessing means it's doomed. Will try and find a firmware upgrade and see if that works...

d_brennen · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:19

www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=308

I have no less than 4 x Sammy F3s on my AM3/SB850 board. Was a real head scratcher til I found this. Make yourself a USB DOS drive and flash it with the appropriate firmware

They do make a wild crunching noise if the have the dicky firmware on an affected motherboard. It's probably fine

Broken Hope · 12 Nov 2011 at 11:32

You can check the drive firmware in device manager, mine didn't have an affected firmware.

Scythe · 12 Nov 2011 at 13:36

Broken Hope said:
You can check the drive firmware in device manager, mine didn't have an affected firmware.

HD103SJ.

Says it does, I have this drive too but can't work out how to flash it?

I don't have any problems though so might just leave it.

Broken Hope · 12 Nov 2011 at 14:18

Scythe said:
HD103SJ.

Says it does, I have this drive too but can't work out how to flash it?

I don't have any problems though so might just leave it.

That's the drive model, the firmware on my drive is 1AJ10001 and the flash tool says my drive isn't eligible for the update.

Johnny Girth · 12 Nov 2011 at 20:05

Thanks for the advice. I had an old firmware model and have updated to the latest version - hopefully this will solve the problems!