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  1. NightHawke

    Hard Drive Problem

    Yes you can make any drive you buy a primary (master drive). And this does smell like a dying drive and needs to be taken out and retired.. Maybe some nice wind chimes made out of the platters..
  2. NightHawke

    hard drive light stays on winxp

    This reeks of a XP software issue, not a hardware problem.. Check to see what mode the IDE controller in XP is set at (control panel/system/hardware/device manager/ide devices/) I bet that XP thinks that the drive is a PIO mode drive and the light is staying on for that reason..
  3. NightHawke

    Noisy hard drive on startup

    I had a 100 gig WD1000BB fail on me three months out of the box. TARE and track 0 faults. Fortunately, I had a copy of a drive recovery program and was able to dig myself out of that hole and WD was quite willing to exchange for me a WD1000DB model.. The drive with the 8 meg cache!
  4. NightHawke

    computer freeze after I tried to upgrade memory

    Hmm a few things to ask you before we continue.. What brand of RAM did you buy? And how old is the Mainboard? What CL rating does the memory have? Sometimes when you select optimal speed in older system BIOS', it tries to force the memory to run faster than the RAM can handle, thus the...

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