I have a WD 160Gb SATA drive used solely to store video and movie files for
editing and burning. Recently, while encoding an mpg file to VOB, the machine
locked up.
Later, after running all night, the PC again locked up while in Windows
Explorer doing some file operations. The machine wouldn't start again until
several hours later. Running the utility HD Tune, it reported that this drive
was running about 47 degrees C, and reported: "(BE) Unknown Attribute" had
failed. The C: boot drive, a WD 250 Gb SATA, runs about 33 degrees and has a
yellow bar through the "(BE) Unknown Attribute" line, yet reports the drive
health as OK.
This 160 Gb drive contains no system files. Is it known whether a simple
storage drive can freeze up a PC when it's possibly ready to croak?

I think you have a power or cooling problem. The extended
high energy running while converting file encoding and
copying to the big drive is over-heating the CPU and or
power supply.

My suggestion, clean the computer of dust, blow out the dust
from the PSU, and try again. Make sure the cables are not
blocking air to the case.


"JKevorkian" <flyer!@flyer77.microserve.com> wrote in
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|I have a WD 160Gb SATA drive used solely to store video and
movie files for
| editing and burning. Recently, while encoding an mpg file
to VOB, the machine
| locked up.
| Later, after running all night, the PC again locked up
while in Windows
| Explorer doing some file operations. The machine wouldn't
start again until
| several hours later. Running the utility HD Tune, it
reported that this drive
| was running about 47 degrees C, and reported: "(BE)
Unknown Attribute" had
| failed. The C: boot drive, a WD 250 Gb SATA, runs about
33 degrees and has a
| yellow bar through the "(BE) Unknown Attribute" line, yet
reports the drive
| health as OK.
| This 160 Gb drive contains no system files. Is it known
whether a simple
| storage drive can freeze up a PC when it's possibly ready
to croak?