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Answer» dell optiplex gx280. I did a reinstall of windows xp. I got a 0x8E error, but I was able to get rid of that error by removing a RAM stick which I had found to be faulty. Now windows XP is reinstalled, but for some reason I cant install the divers, well not all of them. The main drivers that I downloaded were network, audio and video. I habe installed the audio driver, but the bideo driver install and the network driver installs hang up on the installation screen and never finish the install. Also i noticed that when I click on my computer I get the proper window that I should get but when I click on control panel, the computer just sits there, not frozen cause i can still move the mouse. ...and in the BIOS Not til the recent models...patio, ya you were right. It was a bad hard disk actually even though the hard drive loads up the windows xp and everything works well, I get a message when the machine boots up Notice: Drive 0: Serial ATA, SATA-0 Hard Drive SELF MONITORING SYSTEM has reported that a parameter has exceeded its normal operating range. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate a potential hard drive problem. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility I stike the F1 key, and everything works like its supposed to, windows xp responds and works normally. So why do I keep getting this error and what can be done to resolve itThats a SMART warning...the HDD is on it's way South... It may be fine for 6 months from now...or 6 days. Really no way of repairing it at all. Start backing stuff up and shopping for a new HDD...dang, so even though it behaves okay, I guess its gotta go according to the warning. Oh well, sux. Luckily I dont have anything on the disk.Reference: Quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.Some hobbyists ignore this warning and continue to use the drive. All PC owners should be aware of what follows from the above source. Quote A field study at Google covering over 100,000 drives during a nine-month period found correlations between certain SMART information and actual failure rates. In the 60 days following the first uncorrectable error on a drive (SMART attribute 0xC6 or 198) detected as a result of an offline scan, the drive was, on average, 39 times more likely to fail than a similar drive for which no such error occurred. First errors in reallocations, offline reallocations (SMART attributes 0xC4 and 0x05 or 196 and 5) and probational counts (SMART attribute 0xC5 or 197) were also strongly correlated to higher probabilities of failure. Conversely, little correlation was found for increased temperature and no correlation for usage level. However, the research showed that a large proportion (56%) of the failed drives failed without recording any count in the "four strong S.M.A.R.T. warnings" identified as scan errors, reallocation count, offline reallocation and probational count. Further, 36% of drives failed without recording any S.M.A.R.T. error at all, except the temperature, meaning that S.M.A.R.T. data alone was of limited usefulness in anticipating failures.[3]Notice that above is not an mere opinion. It is a detailed study by a serious business company. You should have a SPARE drive on hand. Then first make a backup. After that, test the suspect drive with another diagnostic method. |
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