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 Posted: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:50:31 Post Subject: |
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| Youd don't have to really replace anything to test it. If you can on another computer, download a linux LiveCD such as Knoppix or Whoppix. Put it in the pc you're having trouble with, and it runs off of the RAM with ramdisks, not your harddrive. You can download smartmontools from sourceforge and compile and install. Once done, you can test your harddrive's S.M.A.R.T. data and run short and long drive tests. This can detect problems with your harddrive, but not necissarily the cable (although some do show up as DMA errors in SMART). You will come to realize it is a cable issue if there are no SMART errors, but having trouble with the drive regardless. If you do replace the cable and it's still not working properly, it's a problem probobly with your motherboard. |
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