Need to identify what type of HDD this is.

spidermonkey

I have to get a replacement Hard drive for my aunts computer,
The last time I opened a computer was about 4 years ago and the connections on that hard drive were different to the ones in the photo below.
Would anyone know what type of hard drive this is?

The machine was bought in tesco a year or so ago for general use and the HDD is failing!

Thank you!

Spear

spidermonkey wrote: »

I have to get a replacement Hard drive for my aunts computer,
The last time I opened a computer was about 4 years ago and the connections on that hard drive were different to the ones in the photo below.
Would anyone know what type of hard drive this is?

The machine was bought in tesco a year or so ago for general use and the HDD is failing!

Thank you!

It's a 3 1/2 inch SATA drive.

spidermonkey

Spear wrote: »

It's a 3 1/2 inch SATA drive.

thanks !

Solitaire

WTF?! Is that some kind of high-speed (e.g. Raptor) or enterprise drive?

I've never seen a consumer-grade SATA drive with an added Molex power connector...

Spear

Solitaire wrote: »

WTF?! Is that some kind of high-speed (e.g. Raptor) or enterprise drive?

I've never seen a consumer-grade SATA drive with an added Molex power connector...

That's fairly common for the age of it. I have a normal consumer grade Maxtor 200gig that's the same.

ScumLord

Solitaire wrote: »

WTF?! Is that some kind of high-speed (e.g. Raptor) or enterprise drive?

I've never seen a consumer-grade SATA drive with an added Molex power connector...

I have. I think I have one is some PC somewhere, it's odd these days but at the turn of IDE to SATA any half decent hard drive should have both, it's actually a good feature to have.

spidermonkey

Hi guys, so as it turns out the hard drive is perfect and after running all kinds of checks on it it seems as though there was no problem.
That is until this morning when I turned it on to give it another look over before I gave it back to may aunt. It persistently hung at the bios screen half way through the word "memory testing" could it be dodgy ram causing the issue?


Below is a photo of the 'hanging' screen
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/4541/biose.jpg

Any help to try and solve this in the next few hours would be brilliant!

Deano12345

Could be dodgy ram,try each stick on its on in all the sockets.

spidermonkey

I've done that, each 1gb stick in each slot by itself, and powered up and shut down without any issues, tried both stick together and the same no issues, but then out of no where it will hang again. Could it be a motherboard issue?

Im lost to be honest

cian1500ww

Solitaire wrote: »

WTF?! Is that some kind of high-speed (e.g. Raptor) or enterprise drive?

I've never seen a consumer-grade SATA drive with an added Molex power connector...

I've seen one's with molex conectors as well

Effluo

spidermonkey wrote: »

Im lost to be honest

Not a nice problem to have

Could be anything, Is it possible that it only hangs after you've had it on for a bit b4 restarting?
It could be a heat issue, if it's just pure random then...

Well...
It's gonna be tough

witnessmenow

spidermonkey wrote: »

I've done that, each 1gb stick in each slot by itself, and powered up and shut down without any issues, tried both stick together and the same no issues, but then out of no where it will hang again. Could it be a motherboard issue?

Im lost to be honest

When you tried them on their own, did you swap them around too?

Like say you have two slots and we'll label you ram A&B there is 6 different configs (although you should look up your motherboards manual to see which slot is the one used for single pieces of ram)

Slot1 -- Slot 2
A

---

B
A

---

B

---

B

---

A

---

A

---

B

youcancallmeal

Run memtest, it will tell you with a very high level of certainty if there is any problems with your ram.