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BetaTested

Not gay, but loves the cock!

posted 06-14-2004 01:03:39 PM

I woke up this morning after my girlfriend decided to come and smack my window until I did so. I let her in, and then ploped down on my computer to check my email. My computer was in the boot process, saying it no longer dected my hard drive, and that I needed to insert a proper boot disk. This saddened me quite a bit, seeing as I have some non reproducable, well not quite the same any way, material on my hard drive.

But after she left, I decided to pop the case and just reseat the connections. I do, plug the keyboard moni and power back in, and bam, she boots happy, dececting my Maxtor 60gb drive again. I found this quite puzzling, and thusly am here posting this.

Could the connections just have wiggled loose over time? I'm also told that there was a power outage sometime last night while I was sleeping in the area, could that have effected it? It's on a surge strip, and as far as I know the 2 other computers in the room are working fine (ping on network, they don't have monitors)

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Alidane

Urinary Tract Infection

posted 06-14-2004 01:14:36 PM

I have an ~2 year old Maxtor 60 gig in my computer as the boot drive, and it will occasionally be slow to detect on boot, and very rarely not detect at all, like yours...a couple reboots usually fixes it...

No idea what causes it, but I kinda figure, it's OK since it always comes back up...*shrug* I'm running a Gigabyte GA-7VAXP for a Mobo, if it matters.

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Mortious

Gluttonous Overlard

posted 06-14-2004 01:16:40 PM

Some BIOS's let you set the IDE detection timeout.

If yours will let you, set it to max for old (and somewhat unreliable) drives until you can buy a replacement.

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Beta Tested

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posted 06-14-2004 05:15:43 PM

Which 120gb hard drive to get? More correctly, which manufactuerer. I'm planning on getting a 120gb 7200rpm 8mb chache HDD pretty soon here with the next paycheck or two I get. Should I go no name on pricwatch, or get a Western Digital, or Maxtor, or Samsung, or Hitachi?

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Alaan

posted 06-14-2004 05:18:12 PM

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Beta Tested got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
Which 120gb hard drive to get? More correctly, which manufactuerer. I'm planning on getting a 120gb 7200rpm 8mb chache HDD pretty soon here with the next paycheck or two I get. Should I go no name on pricwatch, or get a Western Digital, or Maxtor, or Samsung, or Hitachi?

I would say Seagate is the way to go. PRetty much rock solid drives. Got a 160 GB SATA Seagate off of www.newegg.com for a little over $120 a few back. Runs beautifully so far.

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