Re: computer freeze often
- From: "Robert McMillan" <rmcmillan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 01:46:48 +1000
Is the sata hard drive port turned on in the BIOS. Drives will often function slowly (and unstably), but still function when attached to a port that is turned off in the BIOS.
"Yvon" <yvongravel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:418345ea-f14b-47ca-9559-93a1177ad03a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 4 avr, 08:07, vbDavidC <davidsusergro...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yvon,
This is not normal behavior. Are you using this as an external USB
hard drive?
If USB, does the USB cable have an additional connector to plug into a
second USB port? For example one of my external USB hard drives
requires me to plug 2 USB connectors to get enough power. I have
several computers and on another computer I only need to plug in one
connector (the main). Different computers power their USB connectors
slightly differently so you need to play around with it. Hard drives
require more power than other devices so it may be a power problems.
A memory stick, or USB keyboard for example do not require a lot of
power from a USB.
If it is a power problem you could try connecting it to an external
USB hub that uses has an AC adapter.
Does it lockup when the drive is being accessed?
David
Hi David, the hard drive in an internal sata drive. I also suspect the
powersuply. it's only 250 watts.
I installed the OS on the 160 gig hard drive and the rest on my 640.
I might take it off today if I have the time to see if it help.
Yvon
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