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I have "built" a computer from old parts from 2 systems:
* system 1 ran fine (prior to it getting in my hands)
* system 2 had random restarts that got worse and worse until it would not start anymore at all. a friendly computer shop diagnosed the motherboard as the problem and we scrapped the core of the system
However, we put the disc of system 2 as slave in system 1 and also swapped the (larger) memory and some other stuff.

System 1 is now running OK, but has had a few funny things happening: severe slow down without any real reason (a few times) and one system hang (hard). This is on a clean installation even before it was connected to the net, so no viruses or such..

I suspect the slave drive (the one that came from the broken system), but how to find out as it is so random. Is there any way (other than disconnecting) of switching the 2nd drive off for some time to see what happens?
Other suggestions?

Thanks
Rob
 
Take the IDE cable out of the faulty HDD then try it with just the one HDD, are they set as 1Master >2Slave???
 
Yep ... check & use the jumpers as Master & Slave not cable select ... and you are using an 80wire ribbon cable ... Black is master, Grey is slave.

But then, I have had a secondary HD show the same 'problem' and it turned out to be a faulty drive ... only when I made it master and tried to install Windows did I find it was naff.
 
muckshifter said:
Yep ... check & use the jumpers as Master & Slave not cable select ... and you are using an 80wire ribbon cable ... Black is master, Grey is slave.

But then, I have had a secondary HD show the same 'problem' and it turned out to be a faulty drive ... only when I made it master and tried to install Windows did I find it was naff.
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Thank you. This I knew, but I was looking for a way to switch the damn thing off through software ... rather than opening the box again; changing the jumpers and all; because I do use cable select (recommended by the disc supplier)
Ah well, I will let it run for some days and see what happens or run disc diagnostics on it for some time.

Cheers
Rob
 
recommended by the disc supplier
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They have a very nasty habit of doing that ... but they don't tell you that you really need a "cable select cable" to use it properly ... ;)

Now having said that, that was with 40wire cables with the hole already punched out, which causes all sorts of problems on a single drive too, not to mention trying it with CDRom drives.

Not all HD controllers understand CS either ... that can be another 'problem' to fix.

I'm 'old school' I learnt years ago to jumper HDs respectively to either master or slave ... same with CDRom drives ... I can then usually rule out 'some' problems. ;)

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