AOPEN AK73 Pro - Dr. Voice saying HD Bad but HD seems to work fine.

[eedmond]

I don't understand why Dr. Voice is saying "There may be a problem with your HD". I am putting this computer for a friend and the HD is a 20 Gig Samsung. The HD seems to be working fine. The MB detects it's size and all that fine. I am right now formating it and installing Win98. Anybody know if the Dr. Voice is faulty or if my HD really is bad but just seems to work?

20G Samsung HD
AK73 Pro MB (AOPEN)
128MB Ram
650 Duron

Thanks,
Eric

[InTheWayBoy]

Dr. Voice can lick my b@lls! I swear, that thing has caused me more grief than anything else...customer calls up and tells me that the computer says this and that...it's rarely ever right from my personal expiernce...

[condor]

Software might be using the S.M.A.R.T system to check the HDD..

if this is not supported by your drive or maybe disabled in BIOS you'd probably get this message..

[eedmond]

Well, I figured it out. I believe Dr. Voice detected that the HD was unformatted so that is why it gave the error message. Soon as the HD was formatted it stopped saying that.

TTYL,
Eric

[confus-ed]

Originally posted by InTheWayBoy
Dr. Voice can lick my b@lls! I swear, that thing has caused me more grief than anything else...customer calls up and tells me that the computer says this and that...it's rarely ever right from my personal expiernce...

Mmmmmm understand your error messages ? if they made any sense that is .....

It should say 'disk is unformatted' (sigh!)......

This is a shonky bit of s/w......

[Gabriel]

Somewhat related:
I personally own this Motherboard.
It uses AWARD BIOS. Many of the problems I have encountered using my system - resolved by updating the BIOS.
You can download the BIOS from AOPEN Website using the URL:
http://www.aopen.com/tech/download/mbbios/ak73pro.htm

It is fairly easy and worth it.

Good Luck,
Gabriel

[The Computer Valet]

Dr. Voice can lick my b@lls!

I find this really disturbing.