Weirdest problem ever...

[lukeiamyourdad]

I know this isn't a tech support forum, but since I know of no friendly tech forum (at least not as friendly as SWK.net ) I decided to go ahead and ask about this weird problem I just got.

 

I was playing EA Sports' Euro 2004 when the Czech Republic won the title. I get out and open up Firefox.

The computer freezes. I manually restart.

 

On start up, the computer has a hard time detecting my secondary hard disk ( some Western Digital 100Gb hard disk) and I do a second manual restart. This time the computer detects it well, but Windows doesn't start normally.

 

I do another manual restart, this time with my secondary hard disk unplugged. Windows starts normally and does a check disk. Everything runs fine.

I restart and replug my secondary hard disk.

Everything works like nothing ever happened.

 

Now, you ask why I would ask for info even when everything works fine.

Well, I wish to inform myself so I can avoid/deal with a future similar situation, if it ever happens.

 

If you have any info, please post it.

 

Thanks for any kind of info.

 

*waves at stingerhs*

[Boba Rhett]

Well, it sounds like you already figured out what to do when it happens.

 

 

Could have just been a hiccup in your system. sometimes a PC needs to be restarted three times or so before it recovers fully from such bugs.

[Jeff]

Originally posted by Boba Rhett

Well, it sounds like you arleady figured out what to do when it happens.

 

 

Could have just been a hiccup in your system. sometimes a PC needs to be restarted three times or so before it recovers fully from such bugs.

I think Rhett is probably right on this... But man, that is the weirdest set of coincidences still.

[General Kenobi]

Are your HD's jumpers set to the correct settings???

 

Sometimes this can cause a larger HD (that 100GB) HD not to start correctly. This could explain why your 2nd hard drive doesn't initalize sometimes.

 

If the problem persists or gets worse you might end up resorting to rebuilding your machine and dropping Xp or whatever on there again. Windows can do some REALLY odd things some times. From odd windows type of things happening to real problems resulting from too many crashes manually. ALWAYS try to avoid doing that. Also your secondary HD might have a bad segement of data near the beginning that keeps it from initalizing correctly sometimes. I'd use a disk defragementer like Norton's Speed Disk or another like program (including scandisk) that could fix your problem.

 

If you have access to anyone with PowerQuest Partition Magic installed you can get them to make you a set of two disks that are 3.5 floppy and start up your pc with those recovery disks/usage disks and they will find any errors on your HD's at startup automatically (and in most cases ask you to fix them).

 

REGARDLESS...the problems (hardware) you just stated could become VERY bad VERY quick if you don't watch your P's and Q's

 

Hope that helps a bit and good luck

 

General Kenobi

[lukeiamyourdad]

Thanks for the info, though you're starting to scare me a bit

 

The jumper settings are correct, everything "looks" fine.

 

I'll defragment it for now.

 

Everything seems to be absolutely fine now.

[RevanA4]

Originally posted by General Kenobi

Are your HD's jumpers set to the correct settings???

 

Sometimes this can cause a larger HD (that 100GB) HD not to start correctly. This could explain why your 2nd hard drive doesn't initalize sometimes.

 

If the problem persists or gets worse you might end up resorting to rebuilding your machine and dropping Xp or whatever on there again. Windows can do some REALLY odd things some times. From odd windows type of things happening to real problems resulting from too many crashes manually. ALWAYS try to avoid doing that. Also your secondary HD might have a bad segement of data near the beginning that keeps it from initalizing correctly sometimes. I'd use a disk defragementer like Norton's Speed Disk or another like program (including scandisk) that could fix your problem.

 

If you have access to anyone with PowerQuest Partition Magic installed you can get them to make you a set of two disks that are 3.5 floppy and start up your pc with those recovery disks/usage disks and they will find any errors on your HD's at startup automatically (and in most cases ask you to fix them).

 

REGARDLESS...the problems (hardware) you just stated could become VERY bad VERY quick if you don't watch your P's and Q's

 

Hope that helps a bit and good luck

 

General Kenobi

 

 

hey you beat me to it:p

 

you also might want to start getting all you important stuff on to a cd or dvd because this also could be you hard drive starting to fail so I would do that asap just incase other wise I know from experiance you will be kicking your self when it does go and you didn't get all you data off

 

ps if you have a dvd burner i sugest you us dvds instead of a cd-r

[stingerhs]

well, from what everybody else has stated, i don't think i need to add much here except to say that if its a new HD, check your warranty to see if you can't send it back for either a replacement or a full refund.

 

if not, then just follow the other's instructions.