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Intermittent SATA problem
@ Grenage - The drive works fine in another machine. Guess my M/bds onboard SATA controller is blinking... @oisnds - I've got the boot order correct in the BIOS (see OP) the problem is that sometimes the disk is detected and works fine, sometimes the disk is detected and crashes during use...- Akulya
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Intermittent SATA problem
Any idea's on how to resolve the issue? If the onboard SATA controller was gone; then I would think the drive would never get recognised at all. As it is, sometimes it works and sometimes it does not. I understand that SATA drives are hot-pluggable so if it were a loose connection type...- Akulya
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Intermittent SATA problem
Sorry if I was unclear, only one drive is SATA - and the seagate is IDE. The M/bd has four SATA sockets (i've tried all of them with similar results) ever heard of an on board sata controller going kaput while the rest of the M/bd is OK?- Akulya
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Intermittent SATA problem
Hi, I have recently (jan '09) installed a 500GB SATA Hitachi HDD to my XP SP2 machine, to upgrade from two 70Gb seagate barracudas (not-RAID). Installation went smoothly, 500GB drive was partitioned into three unequal parts; one for the OS, two for data, and I kept one of the original...- Akulya
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