OT, had a little Comp panic.

Sleeker GT Phwoar · 2005-08-06T17:11:20+00:00

Came upstairs to check mail.PC dead.Switched to other machine, that is fine (both on a KVM) but the HDD light on the case, and on the removable cable is solid on.Shut it down, spend an hour looking for the caddy key.Pull the caddy. Still same problem.Power off and disconnect one drive. Machine boots.Reconnect it, dead again.Disconnect it, then halfway through booting there is a continuos beep tone and the machine goes no further.OK try a reboot.Nothing, HDDs locked on.Disconnect the IDE on the next non-OS HDD and it boots fine.Looks like 2 dead HDDS (and they are on different channels).So, 1 by one, shutdown, reconnect, reboot.now all drives are magically working again.Aint that a pisser.Time for more HDDs I think.The ones that appear to be dieing are 8gig Seagate8gig Samsung30gig Seagate.The caddy has a 120gig in it.I think it is time to swap the drives out, one by one, and clone them, and get some decent proper rounded cables instead of my very stiff home made ones from about 5 years ago.

Aug 06, 2005 84 Replies

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DanTXD 21 years ago

This bad boy appears to be the way forward...

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Cheers dude :)

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Sleeker GT Phwoar 21 years ago

I want something with at least 2 120mm internal fans, and 7 internal

3.5" and external 4 5.25" and 2 external 2.5" drive bays.

I'll probably go for some kind of cooling display and control this time, along with decent cable routing.

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Sleeker GT Phwoar 21 years ago

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pi(obfuscated) 21 years ago

I just went through exactly the same process (same film as well!), mucked about in virtualdub with the subtitler plugins and got it encoded over night..

Then realised that Winamp (what i use to play all media files) reads .srt's anyway...

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