gang I have an unusual situation I can't explain: an ordinary HP desktop, good quality, that black-screened a couple weeks ago and left little hints about what the cause was. I'll have to sift through the minidmp to figure it out. But the superficial signs all point, circumstantially, to the Drive or file system.
no malware. no power surges/fails that I could see. nothing funny in the way of updates etc.
at any rate, it has a WD6400aaks drive - very common in hp/cpq and a good drive, as they go.
running the WD Diags fails due to a "Smart Enable" error. There are a lot of posts about this elusive error and no satisfactory answers. I plan to extract the drive from the system and run other tests on it. my 'other' hdd tests range from destructive to just old/antiquated Linux-based tools
what have you guys found that works well?
no malware. no power surges/fails that I could see. nothing funny in the way of updates etc.
at any rate, it has a WD6400aaks drive - very common in hp/cpq and a good drive, as they go.
running the WD Diags fails due to a "Smart Enable" error. There are a lot of posts about this elusive error and no satisfactory answers. I plan to extract the drive from the system and run other tests on it. my 'other' hdd tests range from destructive to just old/antiquated Linux-based tools
what have you guys found that works well?
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- HP DC7600, HP DC7600[2], HP DC7100, Samsung NC10
- OS
- Windows XP Pro SP3, Windows 7 Pro 32-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, Windows XP Home SP3
- CPU
- Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Pentium 4 3.4GHz 64bit, Atom,
- Motherboard
- Dunno
- Memory
- 4GB matched, 1GB, 2.5GB, 4.0 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Geforce 8400 GS and others
- Sound Card
- RealteK ALC260 and others
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Asus HD
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- WD Caviar 640gb SATA
- Cooling
- We Be Cool
