re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 9:16 pm
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Posted by raminder singh
(92 messages posted)
Thank you for your suggestions. I will keep them in mind. As I reported some weeks
ago, I downloaded the "Lenovo system toolbox" after my problems began and tested
everything, including the mother board. All components passed all the tests. Clearly,
software cannot spot some kinds of hardware damage.
Twenty four hours ago the motherboard was changed. I noticed that some of the capacitors
looked quite different from those on the old board. The hard disk was not replaced
(80 GB disk not in stock perhaps?), so I continued with my "damaged" hard disk.
Imagine my surprise to find no disk errors or any other errors showing up in the
Event viewer system log!! I performed, repeatedly, all the operations which invariably
resulted in errors with the old board, but no error has showed up in the past 24
hours. I first ran with the fresh install of XP already on the disk, and later after
restoring the stored images of all my partitions, including the C: drive. (DriveImage
worked really well and reliably).
While pleased about having a healthy system, several questions puzzle me. I would
be grateful for some expert comments about them, if someone can spare the time.
In view of the systematic investigation done by the IBM engineer on his visit a few
days ago, which I reported, and which seemed, decisively, to have identified a damaged
hard disk, is it possible to choose between the following alternatives?
1. That the UPS crash late in March probably did not hurt either the hard disk or
the board. Certainly it did not cause the board capacitor to swell. A user profile
did get corrupted, which resulted in STOP errors and, in turn, caused me to start
looking at Event viewer logs (which I never did earlier). The board was probably
already dying anyway, even before the UPS crash, and disk errors were probably showing
up in the system log, but I never looked. Finally, total board failure (error message,
no boot) pinpointed the faulty component. Its replacement has cleared all the problems.
2. That the UPS crash did some small damage to the SATA controller on the board (the
swollen capacitor was a mere red herring), or to the disk controller on the HDD,
or both. Replacing *either* of these with a fully healthy unit eliminated all errors.
This would mean that I am living with a somewhat damaged hard disk.
3. That Western Digital hard disks are more sensitive to board defects than the Hitachi
disk given to me as a temporary replacement? This does seem a bit far out; is it
possible at all?
raminder singh
On Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8:57 pm, Jacob6601 wrote:
>Be thankful that there was a visual indication of a bad board. I suspect your new
>drive would have been damaged sooner or later otherwise.
>
>Two things:
>
>Search (inet) for hardware failures using the Lenovo model number or mother board
>number. If that problem is widespread (design flaw) you may only get another year
>of service out of that pc. However, I imagine IBM would be aware of such a flaw
by
>now and give you a revised or comparable (but different) board.
>
>Continue looking at the event log as well as doing a visual inspection of the board
>every 60 days or so.
>Event Viewer Shortcut (bottom of page) = http://www.pctoday.com/...
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