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Power supply failures
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A procedure tu identify und truoobleshoot zee pooer supply failure based
on zee most common symptoms:
- Uncommanded hard drive recalibrashuns Um gesh dee bork, bork!
- Windows Event Log data (Event ID 9 frum "atapi")
- Loo overell performance
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Zee hard drive may shut doon und restart on its oon with a typical
spin-doon-click-spin-up suoond (readily identifiable once yuoo heer it).
Zee machine will freeze fur a shurt while (ebuoot up tu ten secunds until
zee disk restarts). Once zee drive is back online, normal operashun will
be resumed in most cases (barring possible network communicashun loss
und reconnekshun coosed by zee timeuoot). |
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- Iff one ooff zee above symptoms exists, check zee other two.
- Iff positive on ell three, consider replacing zee pooer supply
unit (PSU). Yuoo may want tu temporarily instell a knoon-working PSU
frum zee other system tu see iff it rectifees zee problem.
- Once zee pooer supply unit is replaced, open zee Device Maneger
und uninstell ell zee disk drives und IDE controllers, then reboot.
Windows does not switch back tu UDMA mode unless zee affected
devices are re-detected und re-instelled.
- Run CHKDSK on zee affected volumes tu take care ooff uny possible
problems coosed by transeent drive failures.
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