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Old 07-05-2007   #9 (permalink)
Richard Urban


 
 

Re: Hard Drive Spin Up/Down Constantly

Well. Here we have a case of someone having the same problem as someone else
having the same problem - yet the original problem is not stated.

http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

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Richard Urban
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"Roses"R"Red" <RosesRRed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Well I have had the same trouble with mine. "it sucks" I thank its cause
> of
> the Super Fetch. Loading all the pages & the hard drive can't take it. At
> times its so loud, noise & locks up on me also. I am getting soooo many
> errors in my Event Viewer. I am running vista home premium was pre loaded
> on
> a Gateway GT5408 from Best Buy & they don't care about what's going on &
> won't help. Will never buy from them again! So I called Gateway they told
> me
> to back up all my files asap & will ship me a box to mail it back to
> replace
> my hard drive,....cause its going bad. Why Microsoft do you put out your
> beta
> software for customers to find what works & what don't! So now I'll be out
> of
> a computer for 4 weeks & who even knows if it will work next time!
> To much money for all the trouble! Should have stayed with W/XP
>
> "SnekkO" wrote:
>
>> I have the same problem, I now have return to XP as it's too disturbing 2
>> listen 2 my Hdds power down & u again. I have Western Digital Hdds, I
>> have
>> discovered that the problem is a chipset related problem cause when I
>> install
>> XP and leave the chipset drivers out I get the same problem. I dont know
>> how
>> 2 fix it tho & am still looking


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