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Posted by Stephen Sinclair on December 21, 2004, 12:57 am
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I thought of temperature, but when i remove it after a failure it's not
really all that hot. (Just a little warm.)
I may try a monitor program as you suggested, I hadn't thought of that.
However, I'm glad to hear you think it is the drive rather than the
motherboard. If it is the drive, I don't mind buying a new one. (I
have a personal policy to not trust any drive that starts acting
weird... back up everything and replace it a.s.a.p!) What I was afraid
of is that it's possibly something more serious. Since this is a
laptop, if the motherboard has a problem it means buying a new computer,
which is sort of out of the question. Thanks for your input.
Steve
Quaoar wrote:
> Stephen Sinclair" <"radarsat1[at]montrealelectro.com wrote:
>
>>Hi, wondering if I can get some help here...
>>
>>I bought a used Vaio almost a year ago, PCG-GR390, and it has been
>>working *perfectly* for all this time. I have been very very happy
>>with it. I use it with Windows as well as Debian Linux. Anyways, in
>>the last couple of days it started doing something _very_ strange...
>>after
>>using it for a while, I hear a little noise and it is the HARD DRIVE
>>TURNING OFF. Weirdest thing. The computer still functions, but as
>>soon as it tries to access the harddrive I get a bunch of I/O errors
>>and I have to reboot. Needless to say I'm afraid I'm going to lose
>>some work if I continue to use it this way. It happens about twice a
>>day now. (Not to mention that fsck has to run every time I boot the
>>computer now, which kills the filesystem..)
>>
>>Anyways, my problem is I can't figure out how to determine the source
>>of the problem. Usually when hard drives die, you notice data getting
>>corrupted, but I've never heard of it just shutting off. I'm afraid
>>that it's NOT the hard drive, but some sort of power issue on the
>>motherboard. (If that's the case, I guess it's time for a new
>>computer..)
>>But I don't want to go and spend $150 on a new hard drive only to find
>>out that it's not the right thing to fix. How can I determine what
>>the problem is?
>>
>>(Ps. it happens in both operating systems, with and without the
>>battery, I can't find a reliable pattern yet...)
>>
>>
>>Steve
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> The first thing to do is obtain the drive fitness or diagnostic utility
> from the vendor, run it. Since this occurs in both OSs, it is a
> hardware problem at some level. You can try running a temperature
> monitoring utility like HMonitor.exe if the drive reports its
> temperature. Remove and reseat the drive. Check for boot sector
> viruses, a problem with the boot manager you use, etc., but most likely
> it is the drive itself that is failing and the vendor's utility should
> diagnose it.
>
> Q
>
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