My Compaq Dilema!

hehe, if you are bored, listen to this and after you've read it, I'm sure you'll never buy a compaq if you ever think you want one! :rolleyes:

Listen to this:

I got my pc a few months ago all nice and fast like any other new pc... well just about 2-3 weeks ago, I noticed that the harddrive it giving me errors... so the days passed and more and more error would come up and it will get slower and slower and SLOOOOOWEERRR :mad:

I did about 10 system resotores from the CDs that compaq gave me thinking it's windows but it would be the same thing.. slow. So..talking to justin about this, he made me open up the case and feel how hot was the hdd.. and like he said, it was soo hot as if you are running the hot water in your sink.. (you can stand it but it's HOT)... so I called compaq to ask them what to do and they told me to do a few more "quck" resotores :rolleyes: and I did but it would be the same thing...so I called them again asking for somebody to come to my house and look at it, but they insisted that the hdd may not be the problem and I need to take it to a shop with my warranty so they fix it... but when I called the shop, they told me that it would take 2 weeks for them to fix it.. so I got angry and called compaq again.. (that was last night) and somehow I got on the phone with this NICE tech person who was very understandabe and he immediately sent me a new HDD over night. :D so today when I came back from school, it was waiting for me in my room.

So I got down to business to replace it.... easy you say?? hahahah I dont think so.. try replacing a hdd from a compaq case... :mad: I had to strip down the whole case down to the bare metal in order to pull out the hdd!!! after that i got it back together and I put my old hdd (the messedup one) next to it...
now my question is this, will I still be able to use it for storage or something? It still works but it's VERY VERY slow!!! they are both 100GB so if it does work I'll have 200GB for storage! :D

Also, does anybody know how the pins have to be so the system recognizes the old hdd as a slave??? :confused:

Well thanks for listening and I know this is not really compaq's fault because the hdd is Western Digital but still... :rolleyes:

-Emo

Heh

Go the manufactor of the HDs site, they usually have something which tells you which jumper will make it slave. :)

Re: Heh

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Originally posted by Gimlin
Go the manufactor of the HDs site, they usually have something which tells you which jumper will make it slave. :)

I was just doing that thanks!

-Emo

I'd agree never buy a Compaq.

Call up Western Digital, ask for an RMA on the slow drive. It should be a no-questions-asked warranty-- I know IBM does this, not sure about WD. You send them the old drive and they send you a new one.

Or if you wanna cheat...go to Best Buy, pick up a 100GB version with 8MB cache and throw the 2MB cache version you have now in the 8MB cache box, and return the drive. It might work althought he model numbers are different-hopefully you'll catch a lazy employee ;)

a guy i know had a problem with compaq drives, they had a fix but it would cost him $30 to get it :p and they didn't have a downloadable version of it. he told the tech support person to **** off and just didn't get the fix, it was only a 4gb drive anyways :p