HDD causing Boot Failure

[DocStone]

OK, here is a nice wee problem that I encountered yesterday, just perfect for a monday gone wrong.

Just finished building a system, 3.2 Athlon 64, 1Gb Geil DDR400, Asus A8V-E SE mobo and Maxtor DiamondMax 10 160Gb ATA133 HDD.

The customer supplied a copy of XP, retail in box, 2002 version, with SP1, which I went to instal on the system. Only it turned out not to be a copy of XP, but an Upgrade Disc they had put into a Full XP box.

So the setup had to quit and the system rebooted. Or should I say tried to reboot. It hung just before the HDD should have started to spin up.

So, i replaced the HDD with another of the exact same model and it worked fine, swapped again and still hung during POST. Formatted the drive, replaced it and it still hung. The drive does work, just will not let the system get past POST.

Anyone experienced this before and have a workaround?

Cheers,

The Doc

 

[paparazi]

DocStone
My only suggestion would be to download and checkout the drive with maxtors own Powermax tools.
Try a drive fitness test.
A low level format might be advisable but takes forever.

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...By Category/Desktop Storage/DiamondMax Family

It helps to have a fault code if you need to return the drive.

Martin

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[DocStone]

Thought that was what I might have to do, just hoped that someone else had experienced this and could go "Oh yes, this is what you do" lol!

Will try it next time I get some free time,

Thanks for the reply,

The Doc