Might have a bad spot on it.. Have you done scandisk using the thorough
option?

Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Capt. Zyla" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 5:25 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] At times hard drive light comes on solid during operation


> I have an older pentium mmx computer where this has happened several
> times. The hard drive light all of a sudden comes on solid, I can't do
> anything except hit the reset button on the front panel. Then the system
> reboots, however it does not see the hard drive and stops booting. Now if
> i shut down the computer(power off) and reboot it starts up fine. This
> does not happen often and I would like to know what possibly is going bad
> or at least get any ideas as to where to look for this problem?
>
> thanks;  John zyla
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