Referencing #2, I have that same problem with a Dell SC400 Server with Sata drives.
What did you use to recover the data? Tom -----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Recent problems with hardware In light of some of the recent hardware-related oddities posted here, I thought I'd share two of my own more annoying recent discoveries in the past 6 months: 1. Dell Optiplex GX520's have a motherboard problem. The system will shut itself off, leaving the user only with an amber flashing power button light. The motherboard needs to be replaced to correct this issue. My show has many of these PC's, and it has happened to 4 so far. This starts are a very infrequent annoyance that becomes more frequent over time - resulting in not being able to keep the system on for more than 60 seconds between occurrences. It appears to me to be a heat sensor problem, but I don't have confirmation on that. 2. I don't have a manufacturer commonality for this one, but it appears to be specific to Serial-ATA. The problem/cause is still unknown to me, but the result is partition corruption that makes the drive unreadable without special utilities that can read raw data. Twice this happened to the same HDD. The other other two instances were different HDD's from different computers. In each case the partition info could be reconstructed. It has happened to my own system at home as well as user systems at work. The only commonality was that there were all Windows XP systems. These are just some things to have recall for if you run into similar oddities. That is all. -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
