My computer has been playing up lately. I have formatted and reinstalled and repaired and its still dodgy. I checked my event viewer and theres loads of errors. I think the jumper settings may have been wrong, could this be the cause? I checked online for the settings for my HDD (Samsung HD400LJ and HD401LJ and they are not very clear. If anyone knows the settings please let me know. And what else do you think could be wrong with the drives?
2007-05-04 01:44:43 · 6 answers · asked by bruvvamoff 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
That drive is SATA. You don't have to concern yourself with master/slave jumper settings.
You will probably need a floppy disk with the SATA controller drivers on that you use during the XP install process (hit F6 when it asks).
Check in your BIOS as well to make sure that you havent enabled RAID when it isn't needed, or that kind of thing.
Best of luck
Paul B.
2007-05-04 01:52:55 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should be a jumper position diagram on top of the hard drive. Normally to set your drive to a master the jumper should be on the left hand pins - but check the diagram.
If you have managed to boot your PC then you do not have a jumper problem. You cannot boot a PC if the hard drive is set to slave.
There are various diagnostic tests available to verify your hard drives read/write capability. Seagate has a good diagnostics program. Check their site for details.
2007-05-04 08:55:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could even be a memory (RAM) error. Sometimes this causes the sort of corruption you are mentioning. Have you got a diags utility for your motherboard? You may be able to download one from the manufacturer's website. This would enable you to thoroughly check all of your attached hardware.
2007-05-04 09:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by mr_reading_steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swap the CD drive and the disk drives over between IDE1 and IDE2 connectors to see if it's the motherboard.
2007-05-04 08:50:20 · answer #4 · answered by Del Piero 10 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The controller.
2007-05-04 08:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by stoutseun69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only `hard drive` I have knowledge of is my missus!
2007-05-04 09:04:15 · answer #6 · answered by Montgomery B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋