S.M.A.R.T.

I have an Asus A7V 133C mobo, in the Bios, S.M.A.R.T. can not be enabled, it failed while I had a Fujitsu 40 GB HDD, the HDD is damaged (I've run the Fujitsu diagnostics over it and it says that S.M.A.R.T. on the HDD has failed). I've just put a second hand (but perfectly working) Maxtor 15 GB HDD in and I'm still having the same problems (will be downloading maxtor diagnostics shortly). The HDD and CD drive both need to be run on the secondary ide in order to work but even now this is not working properly. (CD will not read on primary unless the disk autostarts but frequently only reads 20 - 30% of the disk, HDD on primary is slow and makes anything run in jerk-o-vision).

Has anyone else had this problem? Do you think my mobo has been partially fried? I'm really interested as this is a first for me.

Any comments/advice greatfully received.

did you try another ribbon cable?

Thanks for reply but it was the 1st thing changed.

Don't bother with S.M.A.R.T it only slows your hard drive down by checking it all the time. It's no good anyway cause if it does detect that you hard drive is gunna fail theres not much you can do about it.

Leave it off, i do.

I am assuming that you have one hard drive and one Cd-rom. So have you tried the Hard drive by itself on IDE 1 and the CD-rom by itself on IDE 2? Your system is only as fast as the slowest peripheral on the IDE chain. The CD-rom is slower than the harddrive and will bring down the performance if they are using the same IDE channel.

[quote]Originally posted by Lycia:
<strong>I am assuming that you have one hard drive and one Cd-rom. So have you tried the Hard drive by itself on IDE 1 and the CD-rom by itself on IDE 2? Your system is only as fast as the slowest peripheral on the IDE chain. The CD-rom is slower than the harddrive and will bring down the performance if they are using the same IDE channel.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Agree on 100%. Besides that, I would also suggest checking S.M.A.R.T status of both of the drives (better if it will be another motherboard - may be really something wrong with BIOS).

Thanks for all the advice folks. I have swapped my mobo for my sons, (he's not using his putey much as he has a playstation,) as they are idendical, put a 15 GB HDD in the system and now I have smart. Here's the odd thing though, I'm still having problems and have come to the conclusion that the power supply is at fault. All the other components have been swapped out to try and solve the problem. I'm still having problems with ping and lag and still get jerky problems during HDD access. So I will be swapping out the power over the weekend. Thanks for all your help, you've been great.

Tubs

[quote]Originally posted by jimbob2001:
<strong>Don't bother with S.M.A.R.T it only slows your hard drive down by checking it all the time. It's no good anyway cause if it does detect that you hard drive is gunna fail theres not much you can do about it..</strong><hr></blockquote>

What a ridiculous statement. S.M.A.R.T checks for early warning signs of drive failure, such as spin-up time lengthening or temperature rises indicating worn or siezed bearings for example. These things can be precursors to drive failure and can give months of warning, easily enough time to take action and backup your data. If S.M.A.R.T was a waste of time then the drive and motherboard manufacturers wouldn't spend time and money implementing it would they? I've saved many customers data after a S.M.A.R.T alert and i'm sure that they would also disagree with your post.

[quote]<strong>Leave it off, i do.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Bigger fool you then. :rolleyes:

also worth checking that the S.M.A.R.T actually works.

I had a "brand new" JETWAY board and a new 20g western didgital a while back , upon startup the drive was not recognised and made a lot of banging noises, the smart did NOT pick it up,the combo was only 7-10 days old

the retailer said it was "me" and tried charging labour,

I put the drive in sanother machine and "pow" your disk is ****** , took that to the retail shop , and whilst he was ghosting the drive (as i had already lost all the data 3 times - corrupted)

I told him what to do with the ****** jetway board.

now have a ATA133 ,7200rpm and an ASUS board.

next time your machines in bits , plug a Knackered drive in and check it.

Thanks for you reply Freddy, I can try all that now as something has seriously maimed the new mobo, so I now have lots of knackered parts :) :( . At least it's all under warranty. (My GF3 Ti200 *sob*). I have all my electrical equipment on anti-surge plugs so I couldn't of hit the system with a spike. This one for me is a real puzzlement. I'm glad I had smart on as it enabled me to back-up all my data before this disaster.