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hard drive skips!
guess what? im still getting the skips and pauses even after i reformatted c:. what the hell is going on? now i have to buy a new mobo or something. im thinking its the raid somehow, because thats whats messed up, the drive on ide3 (raid). im desperate guys, please let me know if you have any...- vizo
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive skips!
i just formatted c:, and im updating windows2k now, hopefully my hdd wont skip anymore. heh!- vizo
- Post #7
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive skips!
ok i bought an extra stick of 512 pc2700, up to 1 gig now. ive also gotten a 400watt psu. still no luck, still freezes periodically... any know whats going on? :(- vizo
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive skips!
i dont own a commercially built pc. its a custom system that has lasted me for a year, on the _same_ setup. how can it be that it fails all of a sudden? ive had the same setup for a year on a 300watt psu. so you say to put prim. master (C:) on ide 1 alone? then what could i do for ide2? 3? ide2...- vizo
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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hard drive skips!
i recently had an 80g maxtor hdd rma'd due to ... well it basically died on me. i since got a new one and i just put it in to my system (2k.) every minute or so, my system locks for 1-3 seconds, eveything freezes; music, games, even the mouse. this never happened when i had the other 80g hdd in...- vizo
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