my HDD's are spinning down and back up :(

ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
edited December 2004 in Hardware
ive had it happen once or twice before, but it did it twice saturday and once sunday, ill be surfin the net or playing a game, and my hard drives spin down, and then spin back up liek the computer is restarting, when it gest into windwos it says my system has recovered froma serious error, and im like no **** a serious error.

well i checked the airflow over the drives and my intake fans were totally dusted up so i cleaned them and got good air flow, then the spindown on sunday happened so it dosnt appear to be a heat issue, any 1 got any ideas?

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  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited November 2004
    It may be the MOLEX connection. Often when they get even the slightest bit loose they can "short", as it were, thus causing something like a power bump. By "loose" I mean that the pins may not fit as tight anymore thus a good contact is made.

    Try switching to a different MOLEX plug on the PSU.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited November 2004
    Sounds like a PSU issue. I was having the same issue not long ago. It turned out that my 5V rail was only putting out about 4.2V :eek: , and causing my raptors to spin up and down. As MediaMan mentioned, check the molex/sata power connections first, and take a look at your PSU rails to make sure the 5V or 12V is not undervolting.

    Hope you dont have an antec, been waiting a month for my RMA :wtf:
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    thx for the suggestions ill try them when i get home from school, whats the threashold on the 5v and 12v railsi should look for?
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    mk my
    12v is @ 12.03
    5v @ 5.11

    any suggestions?

    move the molex connections around?
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited November 2004
    Those rails are within spec.. Is it just one drive doing this or does it appear to be both? If everything else seems to be okay, you may want to start backing up your data on that drive, its possible it's on its way out.. I've seen some dying drives do strange things like that.. (IBM deathstars :shakehead )
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    well its hard to tell if its only the OS drive or both, but its obvious at least 1 is spinning down, i mean u can hear it "whirl" down and then start back up, it hasnt done it since that last time, and i changed one of the rails for one drive
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    OMFG not 30 damn seconds after i posted that did it happen, but i have deduced something

    i got 2 drives an 80 and a 120

    the 80 is primary ( os )
    the 120 is storage

    the 120 makes the "whine" noise when the problem happens
    the 80 dosnt make the whine noise when it powers up or down

    so i have deduced that it has somthing to do with the power, as when the major problem happens, u CAN hear the whine of the 120 drive as it looses power along with the 80

    :Dwhew, now to fix it

    :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited November 2004
    Very weird.. you should take a look at your voltages next time that starts to happen, my guess is it starts to sag for some reason..

    Good luck! :thumbsup:
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    some 1 suggested that my PSU could be loaded wif dust, i live in the woods whare there is alot of dust in our house, so ima bout to take it out side and teach it a little disaplin with about 150PSI of virginia clean air :)
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    lol wow, my temps dropped about 20 degrees F under F@H ( 1/2 ) load, lol so i hope this solves the problem :) *crosses fingers* the on;ly thing is i cant recreate the problem on my own, i hae to wait for it to happen
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    **UPDATE**

    i have tried reinstalling windows, no go, it no longer gives me errors in event viewer :(

    then i tried switching the IDE controler around so teh cd-roms are in the old hdd IDE and the HDD are in the old CD-ROM and ive been about 24HRs without a restart, if it does it again, ill disconnect the restart switch, ( thats what it looks like when it restarts )

    then ill try switching out PSU's *sigh*
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited November 2004
    i switched mobos out of my briefcase box, and put my asus in the briefcase box, ran both machines for about 4 days, and nothing happened, no restarts what so ever

    i switched them bcak this morning and whent to play Sacred on my asus, and within an hour, it did it

    i think its the IDE controler, the briefcase box has a SATA hard drive and my ass uses ATA drives :(
  • ArmoArmo Mr. Nice Guy Is Dead,Only Aqua Remains Member
    edited December 2004
    wellp, i found the problem, powermax just told me my primary hard drive is failing, ALL RIGHT! :thumbsup:

    i got a PCI -> IDE card and was like yea! no more **** ups, then it blue screened and restared, the blue screen sent me into a frenzy and i got maxtors disk utility, and ker-pow 30 mins later i got a 6b6f64ba error code "Your dive is failing"

    but at least i FINNALY know whats going on
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