BIOHD errors, freezing, puzzling

[palealien]

Microtower.

I was using the DVD cable (known good) as well as a spare, and the one I use for the data disk. All working, no change.

But in the meantime I ran scandisk again in safe mode- and it completed, and the thing has been up for 13 hours. I am reluctant to shut it down especially until I get some overdue work finished. Since I haven't rebooted, I can't tell if I still get the BIOHD . Weird, no?

I am thinking it would be wise to get that motherboard and new cables anyway, just in case. Haven't swapped one out since I left the field, but it's always SO much more fun on one's own machine.

[old_geekster · Accepted solution]

Here is the Hardware Reference Guide for the computer.  There is a section on Installing Additional Drives on Page 30.  You can read the guide to see if it helps with your problem. 

[palealien]

Thanks for that! So many other articles say the SATA order doesn't matter, this makes a lot of sense, since they're all wrong. And of course, everything is working fine again. I'll reconnect correctly tomorrow AM and give you 2 thumbs up. Thanks again!

(Oh, while you're still here- at one point I had a 3rd HD running off the 2nd CD cable- is this approved?)

[old_geekster]

You are very welcome, @palealien.

If the hard drive works with the cable it should be fine.

[palealien]

OK, so we had a power supply failure, a corrupt system drive, and two unrelated inexplicable HD failures. within a week. Solar flares, no doubt.

Anyway, it's all good now, thanks to the manual you sent I reconnected the cables to the proper slots, works as it did yesterday, but I will know it's right. I am still uncertain a new MB is worth $50 at this point since by the time I need it I should probably upgrade anyway.

Just glad I can still put up with his, I shudder to think what a "pro" would have charged. Not to mention probably using "Recover" as the only option, at the shop I used to work we did that all the time or lose money. I always wanted to get things perfect. Probably partly why am no longer employed there.

Cheers!

[old_geekster]

I am still uncertain a new MB is worth $50 at this point since by the time I need it I should probably upgrade anyway.

You would be pleasantly surprised by the increase in performance with a new computer.  Technology changes so fast that a year old computer is behind the times -- sad, but true.