Whenever I power up I get a 'Smart Failure Predicted on primary slave,back up data immediatly' etc. on my Maxtor 40GB drive (slaved) ,I ran a full scandisk and didnt find any bad sectors ,the drive doesnt make any wierd noises in fact its even more silent than my 80GB Master HD (also a Maxtor) I have all a lot of games installed on this drive but nothing i cant replace , is it possible the bios is giving false readings being it says "Predicted" ..the Smart option is disabled in bios so I assume I cant do anything about this ,Have to hit F1 to skip the message everytime .....should I just trust bios and replace the drive? Thanks.
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P4PE "SMART Failure predicted" on bootup
- Thread starter Mathesar
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everything mechanical fails eventually. One should do backups of irreplaceable files routinely (I should listen to my own advise).
I, however, wouldn't run SMART crap on my HDs, and I don't. Maybe a lifesaver for a server, but as you already have seen: it can be a paranoid function.
MOST importantly is that it hampers HD perfromance. This is a OCing forum, and performance is the point... but it's hard to perform when your HD won't work.
I, however, wouldn't run SMART crap on my HDs, and I don't. Maybe a lifesaver for a server, but as you already have seen: it can be a paranoid function.
MOST importantly is that it hampers HD perfromance. This is a OCing forum, and performance is the point... but it's hard to perform when your HD won't work.
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Actualy it still shows the Smart failure message regardless if its enabled / disabled in BIOS ..in fact I never had it enabled especialy after reading the manual's warning on system resources being used with it..oh well I was wanting to get one of those newer 8MB Cache HD's anyhow =/
