Maxtor Diamondmax 10 250GB SATA bootup

[coderunner]

I have the harddrive in my title i bought in july, and for some weird reason, whenenver I boot up windows xp, sometimes it gets past the windows loading screen with the progress bar at near the middle/bottom of the screen within a minute, other times it will sit there for about 5-6 minutes before it boots up. Could this be a problem with the hard drive? i.e., that it may die soon (sometimes a few SMART values dip kind of low, the ultra ATA crc error rate and seek time performance most notably, but then they go back up to normal values)

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[wanderer27]

Initial thoughts, are you Overclocking ?

If so, is your SATA on a "Locked" port ?

 

[coderunner]

Hmm, i've not been keeping up with hardware for the past year, but it is SATA but i'm not OC'd. I"m on a Athlon64 3200+ with a Chaintech VNF4 ultra. I'm not sure what a locked port for SATA is, I will google it to see if i find anything. THanks.