Looking for idea's that I may be missing.
I recently installed a new 2TB Hitachi HD on my slightly aging Q6600 system. Mobo is a Asus P5Q Pro. Boot drive is a segate 640gb 7200rpm, not that it matters but my memory is gskill 1333 and my gfx is x-fired 5770's
Anyway, my weird problem started last week. I removed an 1TB drive and put in a new 2TB drive.. My bios is the latest from the Asus website 2102, but that's from 2009....
The computer is fine for most of the time, but perhaps in 1 of 5 boots (completely randomly might i add) it takes forever to boot. With random results. For example, it may just not boot, or one time the new HD wasdetected as something weird, like a Hitachi HDS5C30 @)@)@)( (in device manager) or it's detected as normal, but if you try and click on it, another time it wasn't showing me the correct drive letter, and if i tried to go into it, it was advising me to format it as the file system is not reckonised.
But then on the other 4 out of 5 boots, it's absolutely fine ????
Do you reckon i just have a bad drive? that i should RMA, or a bios compatibilty issue? But the issue only shows its ugly face every now and again.
I kind of feel I'm chasing my own tail here. At first I thought i had a bad DVD drive, cos the machine wouldn't even boot, until i unplugged the power and IDE from the device. Then it worked for 5 times, and i thought sweet, just a bad dvd drive.. But then, after a few normal reboots, weird things started happening again, as above..
I'm guessing it's gotta be the drive, since everything was running sweet up until last week when i put it in.. Maybe a compatibility issue? But why does it sometimes work then? I'm guessing i'm going to have to do a divide and conquer here, and start that off, by replacing the drive with a different one.
Any other thoughts that I maybe missing?
I recently installed a new 2TB Hitachi HD on my slightly aging Q6600 system. Mobo is a Asus P5Q Pro. Boot drive is a segate 640gb 7200rpm, not that it matters but my memory is gskill 1333 and my gfx is x-fired 5770's
Anyway, my weird problem started last week. I removed an 1TB drive and put in a new 2TB drive.. My bios is the latest from the Asus website 2102, but that's from 2009....
The computer is fine for most of the time, but perhaps in 1 of 5 boots (completely randomly might i add) it takes forever to boot. With random results. For example, it may just not boot, or one time the new HD wasdetected as something weird, like a Hitachi HDS5C30 @)@)@)( (in device manager) or it's detected as normal, but if you try and click on it, another time it wasn't showing me the correct drive letter, and if i tried to go into it, it was advising me to format it as the file system is not reckonised.
But then on the other 4 out of 5 boots, it's absolutely fine ????
Do you reckon i just have a bad drive? that i should RMA, or a bios compatibilty issue? But the issue only shows its ugly face every now and again.
I kind of feel I'm chasing my own tail here. At first I thought i had a bad DVD drive, cos the machine wouldn't even boot, until i unplugged the power and IDE from the device. Then it worked for 5 times, and i thought sweet, just a bad dvd drive.. But then, after a few normal reboots, weird things started happening again, as above..
I'm guessing it's gotta be the drive, since everything was running sweet up until last week when i put it in.. Maybe a compatibility issue? But why does it sometimes work then? I'm guessing i'm going to have to do a divide and conquer here, and start that off, by replacing the drive with a different one.
Any other thoughts that I maybe missing?
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