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Ziroc · 03-02-2005, 05:27 PM

This has been going on for a few months..

I went to clean my alienware, and cleaned it all out, replugged everything back right, and go to boot, and it posts to the HD's, and stops, and doesn't detect them, and says FAILURE ON HARDDRIVE... bla bla. It's NOT the HD's. I checked.

Anyway, I leave the PC on, so when I wake up, come in, it's rebooted somehow, and I got the failure again. I reboot a few times, smacked the case a few times (hehe) and it boot fine--right before it boot fine, it tried to--but detected only 1 hd and the cdrom VERY slowly then failed on that 1 hd that is my boot hd.

Is this the IDE controller dying on the MB? It sure feels like it. I'm not worried, as I can get a replacement, they are old now, and cheap.

Any ideas? Remember, the HD's were tested on another machine for errors, and nada.

03-02-2005, 05:27 PM	#1
Ziroc Ironworks Webmaster *Bow to the Meow* Join Date: January 4, 2001 Location: Lakeland, Florida Age: 52 Posts: 11,727	This has been going on for a few months.. I went to clean my alienware, and cleaned it all out, replugged everything back right, and go to boot, and it posts to the HD's, and stops, and doesn't detect them, and says FAILURE ON HARDDRIVE... bla bla. It's NOT the HD's. I checked. Anyway, I leave the PC on, so when I wake up, come in, it's rebooted somehow, and I got the failure again. I reboot a few times, smacked the case a few times (hehe) and it boot fine--right before it boot fine, it tried to--but detected only 1 hd and the cdrom VERY slowly then failed on that 1 hd that is my boot hd. Is this the IDE controller dying on the MB? It sure feels like it. I'm not worried, as I can get a replacement, they are old now, and cheap. Any ideas? Remember, the HD's were tested on another machine for errors, and nada. __________________ Ironworks Gaming's Official Youtube Gaming Channel