hard drive woes.HELP PLEASE

Mrchu_ · 12 Jan 2006 at 16:28

okay i made a puter for my boss.

ga7va xp ultra main board

but the wd 800 (80 gig) harddrive keeps making the noise like the arm is resetting itself.Then the computer freezes.As it should.
Sometimes it boots into windows fine,then will freeze,some times the thing says its booting from cd( which is the last setting, bios wise that i had it on?????)As it wont recognise the hard disk.

My question...is this a faulty harddrive
a power supply issue
or is there some sort of bios setting that ive missed.

Ive just updated the bios,and so far so good(as it hasnt happened yet)

what do you think?What is making the drive arm reset and how to stop it

Thanks

Mrchu_ · 12 Jan 2006 at 16:33

thanks"double check" advice^^^^ any one else?

Mrchu_ · 12 Jan 2006 at 20:11

thanks ill check it out

Mrchu_ · 13 Jan 2006 at 03:43

Thanks smids,This one is spining down and resetting,i never hung around long enough to see a widows freeze come alive again.Then i reboot. even though ive checked bios settings,it said booting from cd(???)then(surprise) cant boot msg.As mentioned i reset bios to optimal now all seems....
okay ,but as with these lingering things...
Possibly ready for another ugly showing

It feels like the same kind of lockup one might get if overclocking and the ram says no.But of course you get all the damn clicking.......(not serious,just resetting clicking)

Yeah cheers, i dont think its a psu failure.More like imminent hdd death,even tho smart drivers say drive is sweet.??Is this too dramatic???Should i rma this???Damn

Mrchu_ · 14 Jan 2006 at 09:07

thanks for the advice and explanations,ill be looking for an rma on this one

Mrchu_ · 14 Jan 2006 at 21:51

thanks again for the interest,ill do more testing monday.But it will be rma.