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PC Reboots and cannot find drive
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I have a pc which keeps rebooting complaining that it cannot see the system hard drive. A hard reset bring the pc back up and then it goes down again after 30 minutes or so complaining that there is no system disk.
I have changed the hard drive thinking that this was the issue but the problem still persists.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks
I have a pc which keeps rebooting complaining that it cannot see the system hard drive. A hard reset bring the pc back up and then it goes down again after 30 minutes or so complaining that there is no system disk.
I have changed the hard drive thinking that this was the issue but the problem still persists.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks
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>> I never changed the OS, I mirrored the drive onto a new one.
Hmm. There exists the possibility that the OS is at fault rather than the drive if you did that. I'd try a reinstall of the OS on this drive (try Linux if necessary) and see what that does.
Hmm. There exists the possibility that the OS is at fault rather than the drive if you did that. I'd try a reinstall of the OS on this drive (try Linux if necessary) and see what that does.
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Thanks for the advice, will give that a go and let you know what happens?
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I do think heat could be the issue as it runs fine for around 30-45 mins and then pops. So an expanding component which then fails makes sense.
Does anyone think it could possibly be the drive controller failing?
Does anyone think it could possibly be the drive controller failing?
You could try booting with a bootable CD (Ultimate Boot CD) and see how long it runs. I had an old XP machine with symptoms like yours. Booting with a CD (and subsequent fail) condemned the motherboard.
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Get a fan blowing down on the southbridge heatsink on the motherboard. That is usually the drive controller.
The southbridge gets very hot and if not getting enough cooling then ...
The southbridge gets very hot and if not getting enough cooling then ...
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install ubunto (free) on that disk, ansd check if it stays up running - that will show if the problem is hardware or not www.ubuntu.com
you can also monitor the temps with speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
you can also monitor the temps with speedfan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
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Tried all of the above with no luck. Will try one last thing and put in a PCI sata card to see if that has any joy. However, it looks like you were all right and the mobo has gone to pc heaven!
@Nick_D - Thanks for the update and I was happy to help.
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I was happy to be of assistance, too bad we were not able to fully resolve the issue.
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I never changed the OS, I mirrored the drive onto a new one.