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George Neuner
Hi all,
Apologies for the cross post - I wasn't sure where best to ask this.
I have a Dell Dimension Pentium III with two hard drives (a Maxtor 120
GB and a Seagate 20GB) running XP pro. The XP install was clean
without any Dell extras - I did it myself as an upgrade from Win98.
After installing the latest batch of "critical" updates which
reference:
KB828035 KB825119 KB823182 and KB824141
both hard drives have both begun to make periodic, very loud, hollow
sounding "thunks" as if the heads are being (forcibly) homed. I have
all BIOS and OS power saving turned off and the power conservation
option on the Maxtor is deactivated (no jumper).
I have current AV software and I'm certain there is no infection. No
other software has been installed since the OS patch.
Has anyone else encountered this and what did you do about it. The
sounds are starting to scare me - I'm worried about possible damage
being done.
Thank,
George
Apologies for the cross post - I wasn't sure where best to ask this.
I have a Dell Dimension Pentium III with two hard drives (a Maxtor 120
GB and a Seagate 20GB) running XP pro. The XP install was clean
without any Dell extras - I did it myself as an upgrade from Win98.
After installing the latest batch of "critical" updates which
reference:
KB828035 KB825119 KB823182 and KB824141
both hard drives have both begun to make periodic, very loud, hollow
sounding "thunks" as if the heads are being (forcibly) homed. I have
all BIOS and OS power saving turned off and the power conservation
option on the Maxtor is deactivated (no jumper).
I have current AV software and I'm certain there is no infection. No
other software has been installed since the OS patch.
Has anyone else encountered this and what did you do about it. The
sounds are starting to scare me - I'm worried about possible damage
being done.
Thank,
George