Seagate Hard Drive Problems!

[Ziov]

Ok, my second WD HD crashed and died. So I figure I'll go out and get a better brand of HD. One that will last longer and better. So I go and get a Seagate HD. So my system right now is a:

Shuttle AK31 Mainboard
XP 1800+
786 MB DDR 2100
Radeon 9000 Pro
Audigy Gamer
IDE Slot 1:
Primary HD: Seagate 120GB (Runnin Windows XP Pro)
Secondary HD: Western Digital 120GB
IDE Slot 2:
Burner
DVD

Im telling you all my specs that way I dont leave anything out.

Ok so heres the story. I went out and bought a new Seagate HD to replace the one that died. I take it home, install it. No problem. Well a little after I get windows installed I would try to start my computer, and I would get a little beeping/buzzing noise comming from my HD. When this would happen, my bios would not detect ANY HD. (At this point, I had my Primary HD on the same IDE as my Burner, my secondary on the same IDE as my DVD player) I would then have to power down my system and turn it back on. Turn it off, turn it on. I would have to do this a minimum of 4 times before my bios would detect a HD. Then when windows would load, I would not get very good performance. So my next step was to contact Seagate tech support. They told me the drive is probably defective and to get warranty on it. Well lucky for me I had just bought it. So I took it back to best buy and got a different one. Same brand, same size. I install it SAME FREAKIN PROBLEM!!! So I try putting both HD on the same IDE. Same problem. I try putting the IDE that has both HD's on it, on a different IDE slot. SAME PROBLEM!

This seagate I have now is a:

Seagate Barracuda ATA HD 120 GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache
Model number: ST3120026A-RK

I figure that since this is my second one, something must be up. Dunno what though. Any ideas/help is appreciated!

 

[GrowingHaze]

Could be a master/Slave jumper problem. The jumper is located between the power and ide hook up. Either set one to master, and the other to slave. Or set them both to Cable select. Also, it is better to have hard drives in the highest slots of ide higherachy, this being:

Primary Master
Primary Slave
Secondary Master
Secondary Slave

When a Cd drive and DVD drive are combined, make the Dvd master and the cd slave. You can find jumper settings on the drives themself useually.

-Growing Haze

Gates giveth, Gates taketh away.

 

[Ziov]

I have the jumpers set correctly. I set them every time I change hard drives or whatever.

I was aware that there is a Primary IDE slot and a secondary IDE slot. In BOTH slots I had the HD problem. (I had the HD's in the primary IDE slot to begin with)

 

[Ziov]

Also, I am updating my bios as we speak (it really isnt very much outta date, but why not try it?) and I unplugged all my other devices (cd-roms and other HD) to see if it was a power problem. It is NOT a power problem.

 

[GrowingHaze]

I have heard of instances of two drives not playing well together. The workaround is usually switching jumpers to CS or switching the drives around. Hope the Bios update update works for you.

-Growing Haze

Gates giveth, Gates taketh away.

 

[jward52]

I have never had a problem with the following config:

Primary IDE:
HDD - master
optical drive - slave

Secondary IDE:
HDD - master
optical drive - slave

Are you sure the right mobo drivers are being used and there's no problem with the IDE controllers in device manager?