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nabeels786
Apr 4th, 2002, 04:49 PM
would random reboots, OS occasionaly not being found = drive failure?

its a friends 6 year old comp
jim mcnamara
Apr 4th, 2002, 04:57 PM
Could be more like a hard drive or the controller failure. Try Reseating the IDE card (or whatever it is).
JungleMan
Apr 4th, 2002, 04:59 PM
Sounds like the IDE controller to me...
nabeels786
Apr 4th, 2002, 05:34 PM
i dont think she knows how to..just pull out the ide cable and switch them around or something?
Guv
Apr 5th, 2002, 07:30 PM
The fans and drive moters cause just enough vibration to loosen cards,, data cable connections, and/or power connections.

Open the case and make sure there are no slightly loose connections.
Jethro
Apr 5th, 2002, 11:50 PM
You ain't getting any "Can't find C drive" or "Can't find boot sector" error messages are you....

Just thinking the battery thing, if reseating the card don't work...
Behemoth
Apr 6th, 2002, 02:06 PM
run scandisk. That should clear up whether or not you have a dodgy HDD
nabeels786
Apr 6th, 2002, 07:19 PM
Originally posted by Jethro
You ain't getting any "Can't find C drive" or "Can't find boot sector" error messages are you....

Just thinking the battery thing, if reseating the card don't work...


she got one last week, and one over chrismas break. its a compac presario, about 2 years old.

i took the IDE cables out and switched them around, maybe it was a cable problem, seems alright as of now

running scandisk...theres an idea :)
Gandalf_Grey_
Apr 6th, 2002, 08:37 PM
i had a problem like that, after working on it for like an hour i said screw it and watched TV for 15 minutes, i cam back and tryed it and it worked fine, although it detected my hard drive as an auxillary boot device, and today i have to manually reset my bios (short 2 terminals on the motherboard) and it is now detecting it as a network drive, go figure but it works fine, i can't figure out why though :p