> From:    Vincent Perrello <[log in to unmask]>
>
> Sean Jeffries wrote:
> >
> > I have an old Pentium 233-MMX machine that has a bad habit of killing hard
> > drives.   Twice now hard drives that I have put in the machine have gone
> > bad.  The drives run fine at first, but after a couple of days of normal PC
> > operation, the drives start making a funny noise when I power the machine
> > on.  The noise is a kind of clanking sound at an interval of maybe three
> > times every two seconds.

Did you check your CMOS battery (with a digital voltmeter)?  Did you try
SETUP after the drives died?  It could be that the system has "forgotten"
the drive configuration.  It could also be failing memory (DRAM, or Cache
SRAM).  Try switching off all cache, and/or slowing the system down; then
SETUP, boot from a floppy, FDISK, FORMAT/s, etc.

Boyd Ramsay

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