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  1. srcollins77

    Trouble with SATA hard drive - multiple apparent failures

    Thanks for the replies. I tried running Prime95 on my system (with Windows installed on the two old drives) for about 8 hours and got no errors. I haven't tried running duplicate copies at once. I sent back the one drive that I'm sure is bad. I was able to benchmark the other one using Sandra...
  2. srcollins77

    Trouble with SATA hard drive - multiple apparent failures

    As an update, my CheckDisk came back with no errors (after a really long time), but I also tried to benchmark the new drive using the Sandra Lite program. Sandra could not give a speed and reported a drive error. I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with that drive. I'll check the other drive...
  3. srcollins77

    Trouble with SATA hard drive - multiple apparent failures

    Thanks for your replies guys. Here are some more details: I have 3GB of the Corsair XMS RAM installed in 4 sticks (2x1GB + 2x512MB). The timing settings were: 333MHz, 3-3-3-7 (those detected by my Motherboard). I have not tried using just one stick, although I have (to a limited degree) checked...
  4. srcollins77

    Trouble with SATA hard drive - multiple apparent failures

    Hi all. I will be thankful if anyone can help me out on this one. I'm building a new computer. Some of the relevant components are: Motherboard: Asus A8N-E Hard drives: 4 x Western Digital 2500KS (250 GB, SATA 3.0) Processor: AMD Athlon X2 4800+ RAM: 3.0 GB PC3200 XMS series from Corsair Power...

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