Hi Folks-
New build, new Asus P8Z68V-LX/2500k and a 4 or so year old WD 200gig hard drive (hoping to hold me over until the prices come down a bit...)
Right now, with any extended write, such as a big 10+gig file transfer or disk check, the hard drive will simply stop and the computer will freeze for a minute or two, then it will pick right back up and operate normally for another 20 seconds or so to another long (1 to 3 minutes) dead state, and so on. Occasionally it will Blue Screen but the screen flashes so quickly I cannot read it. Usually when that happens the board will not recognize the WD drive, just the DVDRW, until I switch power off and back on at the Power Supply. At that point it will show unsafe shutdown and I will have to go to safe mode, reboot to regular Win7. Oddly enough, the SMART is all OK checkmarks
Any ideas? Could it be a drive on its way out or maybe something on the board? I will say it worked fine until I started trying to run diagnostics on the drive and writing big batches of files to it.
Thanks!
New build, new Asus P8Z68V-LX/2500k and a 4 or so year old WD 200gig hard drive (hoping to hold me over until the prices come down a bit...)
Right now, with any extended write, such as a big 10+gig file transfer or disk check, the hard drive will simply stop and the computer will freeze for a minute or two, then it will pick right back up and operate normally for another 20 seconds or so to another long (1 to 3 minutes) dead state, and so on. Occasionally it will Blue Screen but the screen flashes so quickly I cannot read it. Usually when that happens the board will not recognize the WD drive, just the DVDRW, until I switch power off and back on at the Power Supply. At that point it will show unsafe shutdown and I will have to go to safe mode, reboot to regular Win7. Oddly enough, the SMART is all OK checkmarks
Any ideas? Could it be a drive on its way out or maybe something on the board? I will say it worked fine until I started trying to run diagnostics on the drive and writing big batches of files to it.
Thanks!