How to Get This new Hard Drive Going???

[NooNoo]

I rma'd a seagate drive that was fully functioning, provided it was sitting on its end....

Just go to the online rma and have done with it.

[Farrar]

I think I may be on the right track here with a diagnosis of this problem.

I downloaded Sea Tools from Seagate to create a diagnostic utility to run from a boot floppy. It says it requires 8 MB of RAM to work. His Proteva computer has 2 DIMM slots with a 64 MB PC100 chip installed. If I move this chip to the next DIMM slot, all I get is the error message “Override” on the monitor. Also, if I put a 128 MB PC133 in EITHER slot, the same message will appear. It seems as though I can only access the BIOS, boot floppy, etc. with his 64 MB chip installed in the 1st slot. Seems to me as though this would indicate a problem with the MB UNLESS his system just won’t run PC 133 memory. But, why does his chip work in one slot and not the other. Incidentally, the “Override” message also pops up with NO RAM installed.

Would you suggest a MB replacement?

Thanks,

Jeff

[NooNoo]

Did you get the motherboard manual and find out what ram this pc can handle?

Mixing pc100 and pc133 is known to cause instabilities... you also need to look at ecc, non ecc type etc.

[jc033]

if i read the thread right, you tried the hd in another pc and it exhibited the same behaviour. if so, you can discount mem/mobo issues. if it were me, i would try overwriting it one more time, set it as a slave in a known good system and see how it acted. if it worked ok i would prob put the cabs on the disk and look into hw/mem/mobo issues. if it still acted flaky, i would rma the drive.

[Platypus]

Originally posted by jc033
try overwriting it one more time ... in a known good system

I think this will be the only way to be quite sure, do it all from scratch in a known good computer.

If the drive was processed in a system with a memory/mb problem, it could have been corrupted in a way that will make it still look bad when put into a good system.