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You report back the results of the extended seagate test.
I'm a slow, methodical worker.
Always one step at a time.
I'll await yur report
Can not do "Rate this System" in the WIE and computer plays up.
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I put in the disk and it was unable to detect a hard drive...
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and what setting should my OnChip SATA type be: Native IDE, RAID, or AHCI at the mo its on Native IDE... Also i think my bios does show it as in the IDE Channell 0 master bit it says ST3500320AS...
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I just re-ran the thing on the disk lol, and now it says SeaTools for DOS has determined that an important firmware update may be available for your disk drive. Please log onto Support | Seagate and follow the link to Firmware Update. You will need to enter the serial number for your disk drive, I shall do this and get back to you
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500GBPSU:450W I don't think that PSU is powerful enough. If that's the case I would stop the hard disk scan or it will damage it, if it hasn't already.
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How long will the extended Seagate tools extended test take? It's also saying something about a SMART trip bieng detected prior to the test starting. And then prompts me to not continue and continue...
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Welcome aaronadek.
Since the last part of the WEI assessment is the primary drive that seems to point to a HDD issue, new or not. A HDD should only make a low barely discernible hum. The Seatools Karl linked you to has the option in the Test Menu to spin down and spin up the drive, see if that has an affect on the noise.
Two other items may make noise if failing too, fans or the PSU maybe frying a capacitor.
EDIT: Sorry I had not noticed this was a multi-page thread till I had poasted.
I have run the extended test on some drives and 500GB took around 5 hours. If S.M.A.R.T. has been tripped, that is not a good sign.
You can use IDE or AHCI, both will work.
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