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2009 May 24
3
OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years
My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the
Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2
years.... The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it
boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is
immenient. Occasionally, it will not boot, because the BIOS does not
see the hard drive. I replaced the EIDE cable, but the problem of
sometimes not seeing the hard drive on boot continues. I suspect it
has to do with something loose in the electronics of the drive,
because if I press on both ends of th...
2009 May 25
1
{SOLVED} Re: OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years
...e:
> My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, ?when booting from the
> Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2
> years.... The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it
> boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is
> immenient. Occasionally, it will not boot, because the BIOS does not
> see the hard drive. ?I replaced the EIDE cable, but ?the problem of
After I posted this yesterday, I turned my wife loose on her computer
and it choked. Possibly a coincidence, after receiving SMART warnings
for a couple of years,...