Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive Repair

From: Ian C. Blenke (icblenke@nks.net)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 16:00:27 EDT


Check to make sure pin-1 is correct. You might have your cable
"flipped". Believe it or not, if you flip your cable, your mobo probably
will not POST (per my experience, anyway).

 - Ian

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 15:57, bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> IF it is a old quantum Bigfoot Hard Drive 51/4 size factor they had a 7 out
> of 10 failure rate.
> I bought 6 of the 6.4 gig ones a while back all six failed within the first
> 10 months.
> Then the RMA lasted about 1 year again failed.
> Last RMA they went out within 3 to 5 months except 1.
>
> MB's bought 200 of them returned 186 of them.
> The 3 1/5 inch Fireballs were much more reliable.
>
> How ever I have had best luck with WD drives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Ostrowsky <ostrowb@tblc.org>
> To: SLUG <slug@nks.net>
> Date: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive Repair
>
>
> >Brings up a related question for me:
> >
> >I plugged my printer into my fiancee's computer and restarted the
> >computer. It never rebooted. No POST, no video. Did I mention this
> >was the week she had to do a project in Office 2000? (The community
> >college teaches a class *about* Office 2000 -- or else I'd have showed
> >her how to use OpenOffice.org.)
> >
> >I've finally had a chance to build her a new computer. (She used my
> >computer for the project.) Everything's going well. I power down, add
> >her old hard drive on secondary IDE, and... no POST, no video!
> >
> >How on earth can a hard drive make a computer not boot? I'm guessing
> >that if I put a different hard drive in her HP, it'd at least POST.
> >
> >And is there any hope of getting this old Quantum full-height drive to
> >work again, or does this sound like a doorstop?
> >
> >Ben
> >



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