Thak You Mike!
It is always good to learn something new!
What I did was to remove drive letters to make shure all data is written to
disk, then unplug power cable to release the IDE interface and finaly the
IDE cable. This only leaves a warning in the log, because the system does
not expect the device to disapear.
When adding disk, first the power cable, to make shure the IDE interface is
initialized before connection, then the IDE cable, then in Device
Manager --> Scan for hardware changes and finaly assign drive letters.
In both cases the home PC remained stable. However it is very important that
there is no other device sharing the IDE channel, to prevent any BUS
conflicts.
:
| George
|
| In fully hot-swappable environments, power can be turned off to any device
| in the system, thereby allowing 'on the fly' replacement.. this is so not
| true of home systems, be it RAM modules or hard drives.. power should
ALWAYS
| be turned off before removing anything other than peripherals cables or
USB
| devices..
|
| --
| Mike Hall
| MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
|
|
|
| | > Don`t worry, I`ve heard the same from others, so you`re not the only one
| > to
| > make that mistake. Some people learn from their mistakes and some from
| > others`.
| >
| > While it might be safe to add/remove a harddisk; optical drive or floppy
| > on
| > hot (while the system is running), but only if you know what you are
doing
| > and only on some systems that support hot swapping, doing so with RAM
| > modules or PCI cards in most cases will lead to permanent hardware
damage.
| >
| > When I perform a hot add or remove on the second hard-disk in my system,
| > win
| > 2003 enterprise will remain just as stable as if I used the safe-remove
| > USB
| > drive icon and then removed the disk.
| >
| > "jc0422" wrote:
| > | my computer was running at that time i remove my RAM and replace it
| > while
| > | running suddenly I smell burn when i turn back my RAM my computer
never
| > open
| > | again. what might be the problem?
| >
| >
|
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