Possible WD Raptor problems?

Admiral Huddy · 9 Jul 2006 at 16:57

I’ve just recently reinstalled my XP Os and thought I’d fit in a WD 74Gb Raptor hard drive as the primary drive at the same time.

Now since then, my system has been experiencing various lockups and a few BSODs.

As I said, the aforementioned are the only things that have changed (full system specification in siggy).

I’m up to date on drivers, hot-fixes etc.

I get most of the lock ups occur whilst in IE 6 (and most recently (IE7) but interestingly, my Folding@hone apps have been stalling too. This is weird, as there isn’t much to these little apps.

The only thing they have in common is they are loaded on a Raptor Partition.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions from experience?

Admiral Huddy · 9 Jul 2006 at 18:22

Def not the ram.. Tried and tested..

are there any special drivers for Raptors..? apart from the normal SCSi/SATA drivers?

Admiral Huddy · 10 Jul 2006 at 10:32

div0 said:
What temperature is the Raptor running at?

What about other components in your case?

How do i tell what temp the H/D is running at, it right behind an incoming 120mm fan so heat should be an issue..

I'm wondering if it may be the new AV software i've loaded when i reinstalled windows.. I've started using AVAST in place of Norton.

Admiral Huddy · 10 Jul 2006 at 14:10

cheers^

What about checking that raptor H/D foe errors?

Anyone recommend any software for checking or will the normal SCANDISK do?

It's only a month old.

Admiral Huddy · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:29

spec in sigg..

It's a Seasonic 600W.. Had this for months now.. I'm pretty sure it's not that.

Will run those diagnotic check tonight and will post back.
EDIT -

When it says "write zeros to the drive".. what exactly does that mean.. Will it retain the data on the drive?

Cheers.

Admiral Huddy · 10 Jul 2006 at 15:57

Found it.. ther are various other options including advanced scan..

Many thanks for your help.. Will run this overnight tonight

Admiral Huddy · 10 Jul 2006 at 20:54

div0 said:
I think the Western Digital - Windows Data Lifeguard Diagnostic may be what you want......its the third link down

It should take you here I think:

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=1&swid=3

hope it helps

Ok i've ran the extended test and it passed - no problems

:confused:

Admiral Huddy · 11 Jul 2006 at 08:40

I've noticed that some of my sevcies are dropping. One of my F@H cores this morning, for example, was inactive and the Avast service also needs an occasional restart ?

I'm thinking i'll uninstall Avast, then install AVG or something.. see how things go just to eliminate that.

If it persists, then it has to be the drive.

Admiral Huddy · 13 Jul 2006 at 13:19

Update - i have noticed that the SMART status is "Not available"?

What does that mean?