Hiccuping hard drive on A7N8X deluxe

On Sep 4, 9:10 pm, "FeMaster" <FeMaster @ hotmail . com> wrote:
> "NickM61" <nickmi....RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> >I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of
> > drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical
> > replacement drive and the same thing happens.
>
> > Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II
> > MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP)
> > SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A
>
> > What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I
> > possible
> > hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared.
> > It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no
> > change.
>
> Sounds like not enough power from the power supply. Tried a different
> connector or another power supply? To know for sure, don't connect the SATA
> wire to the MOBO, just the power to the drive. If it still makes the noise,
> then your power supply isn't supplying enough power, and the drive is
> starved.

The power supply is Antec 430 watt. Overkill for this system.

Strange result now. I successfully restored a validated backup to the
drive and now cannot boot. I can access the bios while post appears
normal until it tries to boot (verifying dmi pool). The boot drive is
not recognized. Boot to cdrom works. How can this be?

Something happened to the mainboard since the bios reset at the same
time this issue first occurred.
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A failure at verifying dmi pool often indicates a mobo failure

"NickM61" <nick RemoveThis @mirrosoft.net> wrote in message
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> On Sep 4, 9:10 pm, "FeMaster" <FeMaster @ hotmail . com> wrote:
>> "NickM61" <nickmi... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1188954262.534611.187490@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> >I thought this repeating clunk followed by a whistle was the sound of
>> > drive failure. It stops when I cut power. I ordered a new identical
>> > replacement drive and the same thing happens.
>>
>> > Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 16 250 GB ATA II
>> > MB: Asus A7N8X deluxe (nForce 2 SPP)
>> > SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A
>>
>> > What could this be? Could a sata port have failed? Here's I
>> > possible
>> > hint. Once this happened, the BIOS splash screen suddenly appeared.
>> > It never did before. I reloaded the bios optimal defaults with no
>> > change.
>>
>> Sounds like not enough power from the power supply. Tried a different
>> connector or another power supply? To know for sure, don't connect the
>> SATA
>> wire to the MOBO, just the power to the drive. If it still makes the
>> noise,
>> then your power supply isn't supplying enough power, and the drive is
>> starved.
>
> The power supply is Antec 430 watt. Overkill for this system.
>
> Strange result now. I successfully restored a validated backup to the
> drive and now cannot boot. I can access the bios while post appears
> normal until it tries to boot (verifying dmi pool). The boot drive is
> not recognized. Boot to cdrom works. How can this be?
>
> Something happened to the mainboard since the bios reset at the same
> time this issue first occurred.
>
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