Problem with new F1?

alex24

alex24

alex24

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Got a sammy F1 1TB to replace my dead (and also not old) 500GB seagate as a data drive.

Working fine for a few weeks, today I turn on the machine and it takes an age to boot and no sign of the new hard drive in windows at all.

Restarted, and checked the BIOS and it appears fine. reboot, system as normal. It has been working for about 5 hrs with the system on now, but hasn't been restarted again.

Should I replace it?

I think the system was slow to boot as my pagefile is on the data drive also. I tested it with HDTune just a few days before and it got 91mb/s read average and about 14ms access.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Look in your bios to see how many secs you have selected as time to detect the HD. I found in the winter months if you have it set to 0 or a low value it may not pick it up as HDs take slightly longer to come on in colder weather especially if the room temps have dropped.
 
Interesting post, thanks. Can't say i've ever heard of that before, but it is very cold in here, and was at its coldest when I first turned it on. It's near a window and was not heated.

Any idea how to get to this setting in my gigabyte bios?
 
as far as i remember it is called "HDD boot pre-delay". if you can't find it in the standard bios setup, then in the main setup screen press CTRL + F1 keys to show hidden options
 
Frozen_Texas said:
as far as i remember it is called "HDD boot pre-delay". if you can't find it in the standard bios setup, then in the main setup screen press CTRL + F1 keys to show hidden options
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how did i never know you could press ctrl f1 to show hidden options?

Gonna try this on all the pc's I have, that haven;t been able to do soemthing ive wanted to in the bios :)
 
Yeah I know about the ctrl + f1 but still couldnt find it. I'll have another look later, otherwise i'll just make sure I don't freeze my pc. It's been fine today.
 
No smart problems, I suspect AWPC is right and it was cold. Still, no idea where the hdd boot delay is on my mobo, probably doesnt have one.
 
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