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- Dec 28, 2001
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
I am having a problem with my maxtor 5T040H4, 40 gb 7200 rpm drive.
Recently I had opened up my comp just to sort some wires around when I booted up, the hd wasnt detected, I quickly found the problem was the power input, the molex connector wasnt i guess connecting to all pins and it wasnt starting, i tried a different molex same thing, ok so eay right I just have to fins a way to prop the moxel in there snugly so it connects, i fold a little piece of paper and use it as a wedge on the bottom side of the molex so it fits in. Perfect it turns on everytime now.
However before i found the paper fix and I could get it on by kind of tapping the moxel in the right way before i turned it on, i could get it to start buy while running id hear the click sound and then the hds spinning down, so the hds were turning off while the comp was running and like 2 secs later any vibrations would sometimes start it up.
Now the problem Im having is that the drive seems to be working really slow. When playing tracks in winamp on my other drive which is working fine, i can play them fine and skim thru the tracks, and scroll in explorer through my tracks.
On the drive that was acting up when music is playing from that drive if i scroll the music crackles, and if im skim thru music it breaks up and crackles. And when going thru folders its not as quick.
Anyone know what could be causing this? What would be my best way of troubleshooting this
Recently I had opened up my comp just to sort some wires around when I booted up, the hd wasnt detected, I quickly found the problem was the power input, the molex connector wasnt i guess connecting to all pins and it wasnt starting, i tried a different molex same thing, ok so eay right I just have to fins a way to prop the moxel in there snugly so it connects, i fold a little piece of paper and use it as a wedge on the bottom side of the molex so it fits in. Perfect it turns on everytime now.
However before i found the paper fix and I could get it on by kind of tapping the moxel in the right way before i turned it on, i could get it to start buy while running id hear the click sound and then the hds spinning down, so the hds were turning off while the comp was running and like 2 secs later any vibrations would sometimes start it up.
Now the problem Im having is that the drive seems to be working really slow. When playing tracks in winamp on my other drive which is working fine, i can play them fine and skim thru the tracks, and scroll in explorer through my tracks.
On the drive that was acting up when music is playing from that drive if i scroll the music crackles, and if im skim thru music it breaks up and crackles. And when going thru folders its not as quick.
Anyone know what could be causing this? What would be my best way of troubleshooting this
