HARDISK PROBLEMS - AUTORESTARTS!!!!!!

[HEADACHE]

I have a PIII 500E with 128mb RAM
on a SOYO motherboard (I don't know the type..) Actually we all have the same in work
All the machines are having the same prob
Every time you start or restart, the HDD locks eitheir on 29% or on 43% (in SCANDISK) and I can do that every time http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
and sometimes, many times actually... they hang, they blink, and do reset by their own..

The systems are VIRUS CHECKED...

HEEEEELLLLPPPPPPPP

[hd581]

I'm not too good at diagnosing but try to do things as differently as you can to narrow it down. Such as, exit the scandisk before it hits 29% and run chkdsk /f instead and see what happens. Or just exit it and go into Windows and see what happens. Could be a prob w/ scandisk.

[Warthog]

I know someone who had it hang on scandisk. He had to get a new hard drive. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

Try other suggestions first though. Do not give up hope http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif.

Warthog

[jadison]

I'm guessing you run Windows on all of those systems, if so visit Microsofts website: http://www.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

You'll have to use IE5 not netscape to access that site, Go to product updates, and the site will search your computer for any new updates required for your version of Windows.
Download the all of the updates that u need, I had a similar prob. with my computer, and after updating windows, it ceased.

let me know what happens

-jd-

[LJE2]

What OS are you running Win 98, Win 95? If you are make sure all other programs are closed by doing a CTRL, ALT, DEL and close (End Task) everything except Explorer and Systray before you start scandisk. When everything is closed except those two then run scandisk.

[Nixona]

If all the computers are doing it, it's more than likely in the image they used. For instance, the image could be heavily fragmented, making things rough in scandisk, or there may be a number of cross-linked files and corrupt long filenames. First run scandisk in windows, using the thorough option. Then run Defrag. See if that helps, if you just want to stop the scandisk on start-up, umm I can't remember the filename right now, one of the system files, you can set bootscan=0 to disable it.

******EDIT- The file is MSDos.sys, you change the line AutoScan=1 to AutoScan=0. This will stop it from scandisking when windows isn't properly shut down.

[This message has been edited by Nixona (edited 05-18-2000).]

[cariocaokay]

are you using a voodoo3 video card?

[This message has been edited by cariocaokay (edited 05-18-2000).]

[HEADACHE]

I do have the 2nd edition of WINDOWS
with all the patches...
and I also have Voodoo 3000