Old Samsung hard disk started clicking, ordered a new one from WD. Received it, it went bust after installing the OS, stopped being recognised in BIOS.
Sent it back.
Three weeks later receive replacement, Caviar Blue, WD5000AAKS-60A7B2. Install. All seems fine.
Until I try to perform backups using backup software - each time I tried, the whole system would lock up. I would reboot and, after a very very long IDE drive detection, the hard disk would not be listed in BIOS or in boot sequency. Only way of making it get detected was to switch off my ATA133 caddy drive and eject the drives from my two SATA caddies. This would leave only one drive (the caviar blue) connected to the mobo and it would then be picked up in BIOS.
It also happened when rendering some video footage and also when simply opening up some video editing software just now.
Before installation of this drive this never happened. My system specs are as follows… (from CPUZ)
PROCESSOR
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4ghz running at 1.6)
MAINBOARD
Gigabyte GA-N650SL1-DS4
BIOS version F7 (may check for an update on this actually)
RAM
4gb DDR (4x1gb), 400mhz
POWER
650w
Any advice on steps to take to try to solve this would be much appreciated. Many thanks
