2nd Harddrive causes Computer to hang

[Guest]

2nd Hard drive causes Computer to stop responding occasionally and I must
restart computer to get it to work. The 2nd hard drive makes a lot of noise
when this happens. I replaced the hard drive twice and the cable going from
motherboard to harddrive. I have had no problems when only 1 hard drive is
in. I tried new Bios upgrade but that didn't help.

 

[Guest]

Not much for details....However,if slave hd is on same IDE cable as C: then
move to 2nd IDE port,have IDE hd 1st,put cdrom or rw 2nd on the cable,set
jumpers accordingly.Also set slave with a page file in system properties.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Use the HDD's OEM diagnostic tool to check the drive for errors..
Make sure the jumpers are set correctly..
Might reformat using Disk Management, if you used the OEM tools to format
and partition originally, your call..


May want to review these links for some basic hints..
http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_hard.ht
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.j...toid=2cfd04d2e817f010VgnVCM1000005106090aRCRD


Hope it can help
Cheers
j;-j

 

[Guest]

Yes, I checked jumpers & did the diagnostic and no problems were observed. So
I have moved the 2nd Hard Drive to 2nd IDE port and put the 1st hard drive on
IDE 1 with the CDROM. I also set the page properties in the slave drive.
So far everything is working. I will monitor this and let you know in a few
days. Thanks for all your help. Note: I have another problem which is
unrelated which I will post.