Thread: ...your second hard drive in three months goes on you.

Very frustrating, but at least the Asus technical support is very good, and the guy I talked with is going to try and get them to figure out why I am going through hard drives like this. I am hoping the answer is not too much BF2.

Originally Posted by reject_wolf

Very frustrating, but at least the Asus technical support is very good, and the guy I talked with is going to try and get them to figure out why I am going through hard drives like this. I am hoping the answer is not too much BF2.

Quit shaking/kicking/moving the Tower while its on, that may fix your problem. If all else fails I'll give you one that has worked for 5 years without any kind of data loss that I don't use anymore. Anyways, hope to see ya back on the battlefield soon. Your gonna get knifed....

It is a laptop, and it hasn't been moved at all since school ended so that would rule out any shaking/kicking/moving. Plus, Asus is replacing the hard drives for free. Thanks for the offer on the hard drive though.

P.S. is that some sort of hint for the assassin contest?

I've been using the same 2 hard drives for 6 years now.... never had a problem with them.

Are you installing/uninstalling various programs WAY too much to be accepted normal?
Making sure your computer isn't getting hit with power surges during storms?
Not pouring water into your tower

I dunno what to say,....... don't abuse your computers!

I am on a computer that has had the same hard drive for 5 years, no problems. But I think I may have to just upgrade to a 7200 RPM hard drive and quit being so cheap. 5200 RPM is probably a lot of work for the computer. I am very careful with technology, and I have always kept stuff in mint condition.

Reject, may be related, maybe not especially since its a laptop.

I read an article about a testing facitlity that had a row in their lab referred to as the bermuda triangle. Any test machines plugged into this wall would kill their hard drives.

In the end they found the line along the wall supplying power to all outlets was faulty. Power was fluctuating when someone would flip the other switch or turn on the coffee maker or something random and unreleated.

The power fluctuation was doing something bad and the end result was hard drives that would die after a brief live span.

Does the laptop stay plugged into the same outlet, and for you hardware heros, if the AC is lost, does the laptop immediately cut to DC and then back?

I will try to find documentation of that situation if I get time today. It was from a hard copy of a PC magazine. Details are blurry because its been at least a year since I read it, but I am pretty sure I got the concept right.

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