Computer Problem ?

[vindictive666]

hi all

i recently purchased arconis true image and cloned my hdd

but before this ive had windoze xp pro reinstalled ect ect

what it is doing is this

i keep it going over night go to work on it and it hiccups(locks up) and reboots, then it wont find the ide drives (only got one inside 1 usb 600gb)

thump it(literally) and it starts up again event manager tells me nothing

wondering if anyone here might have an idea whats up with it?

personnally i think the hdd is on the way out :)

Allso seems to be going slow as well? :)

regards john

[toryglen-boy]

What do you mean by "hiccups" ???

i would use something to access the SMART information on the drive, There is a little util i use called speedfan, and while its for temp, fan, and voltage monitoring, one of the other things it can do, is give a detail report of the physical drive status. But TBH, this could be anything.

Is the drive SATA or EIDE?
different drive cable?
What PSU you using?
is the case well cooled?
what other hardware is in there?

If this was working fine on the old drive, then you might have your answer. I to have a PC that i leave on "all night ;)" and all day for that matter, and i have had some issues. Desktop components aren't made to the same tolerances as server components.

[vindictive666]

well cooled no other probs enough power just a desktop nothing special

ide hdd is on the way out did the same thing yesterday and i tapped underneath the hdd and it came up :)

the hdd is going going south :)

downloaded speedfan no probs reported :) yet

regards john