On Monday 05 June 2006 08:52 am, Richard Crawford wrote: > Turns out that I'm stupid, and it wasn't the IDE controller on my mother > board that was broken; it was the disc itself that wasn't bootable. I > burned a new copy of the installation media, and it works just fine. > > However, this hard drive which I'm currently having problems with is the > third hard drive that this computer has burned through. The first two were > IBM Desk Star HD's, and I didn't give it much thought because that model is > notoriously unstable, from what I've heard. But this new one is supposed > to be much better, yet it only lasted a year. > > Is the fact that I'm on my third hard drive in six years indicative of > something more deeply wrong with my system than just my bad luck in buying > hard drives?
As with what Rod wrote, I would also be curious on your power supply. Is it underpowered? Is it a decent model which doesn't fluctuate ? Ive lost more equipment to cheap power supplies than I really like to think about. I lost an IBM Deskstar drive back in feb(I lost the entire system, but the disk quit spinning) so don't feel too bad. However, that's the first disk I have lost since 2002. Mike _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
