Odd Seagate SATA Hard Drive Issue

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Installed a new 160GB Seagate hard drive into a system that has an 80GB SATA drive installed and an IDE optical.

The first boot up, the drive is found and configured. Works great.

Do a reboot/shut down and the next time I go into XP, the system either locks up during the boot sequence or goes into a reboot cycle.

Remove the drive the computer boots up. Reattach the drive, it boots up once, then goes back to the lock/reboot issue.

If I boot into safe mode, the drive is there, and works. Reboot, and it works fine. Next reboot/shut down it goes into the lock/reboot mode again.

**Modulok** · Posted: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:58:31 Post Subject:

did you try the drive in another system yet? or another drive with that system?

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yup, drive works in another system. Don't have another drive to try in that system though.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:24:48 Post Subject:

I'd check the firmware on the system, also check with Seagate they might have a firmware issue.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Yea, I've contacted HP to see if they've heard of the issue.

Going to try a different SATA cable, will also check with Seagate for a firmware update. Maybe get lucky....although that won't work for the long run, so if that's it, will probably have to look at a different drive Sad

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

RMA it!