Hi all..I keep getting a f1 error message when booting this machine
regarding that s.m.a.r.t. technology feels my disk will eventually crash. I
disabled this option in the bios yet the message still comes up during the
boot process and I have to hit f1 to proceed. I have an image of my drive
and other back ups so a crash would not be a disaster. How can I stop this
message from reappearing?

Dave

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:35:27 GMT As another one bit the dust "David
Ciemny" <mookythecat@nospam.com> wrote :

Do you have any other software monitoring the S.M.A.R.T?



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"Shep©" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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hello Shep )

no other monitoring software.

Dave

On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:55:40 GMT As another one bit the dust "David
Ciemny" <mookythecat@nospam.com> wrote :

Weird :O
Can't think of anything else except to try enabling and disabling it
again in the BIOS :/



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"Shep©" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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It's really no big thing I guess. Just hit f1 and it continues on. Just a
little annoying to keep having to hit that button. I thought disabling it in
the bios would be sufficient.

Dave

"David Ciemny" <mookythecat@nospam.com> wrote in message
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even flashed the bios to a newer version, disabled it and the f1 message
still appears. strange..

DC

"David Ciemny" <mookythecat@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Depending on the make and model of HDD there may be a utility provided by
the manufacturer which enables you to turn off S.M.A.R.T. on the drive
(haven't seen anything that resets a tripped flag though). Have a nosey at
their web site.

Paul

"Paul Murphy" <p_murphynothanks@tospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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will do..thanks Paul

"Paul Murphy" <p_murphynothanks@tospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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I did look at their website. States to disable in the bios. Only thing I can
think of now is to clear the cmos. Might that work? Like stated before it is
no big thing I can hit f1 and go but now it is the principle of the matter.
Want to fix it ))

DC

"Trent©" <trentsauder@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Still set to disabled in the bios. Don't see anything else running in the
background. Fresh install of windows on the machine.

DC

Remember that you cannot fully clear the CMOS on ATX powered systems
with power to the board as there is a residual current applied across
the CMOS batery.Unplug the power supply,clear Cmos with jumper and
then re-apply power cable and reset BIOS parameters.
HTH



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"Trent©" <trentsauder@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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hehe Maxtor..

"mhaase-at-springmind.com" <mhaase-at-springmind.com@> wrote in message
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NOT all S.M.A.R.T. warnings mean a drive is about to fail. As an example my
employer had a batch of approx 30 PCs with identical hardware during my
stay. About 6 or 7 of these had the S.M.A.R.T. flag tripped and popped up a
warning on boot if detection was enabled in the BIOS yet formatting worked
perfectly well with no bad sectors discovered. During the 15 or so months I
was with the organisation, none of the drives with tripped S.M.A.R.T. flags
went on to fail. All of the valuable data created by users was stored on a
server with a RAID 5 configuration, we also had spare drives in the cupboard
and used imaging software so we could afford to "wait and see" what would
happen.

The S.M.A.R.T flag can be tripped by a multitude of reasons including things
like power surges or even disconnecting IDE ribbon cables from the drive
while it's still powered on (with some drives at least). If the OP has
thoroughly backed up all valuable data, I would suggest a low level erasure
of the whole drive is performed using Maxtor's utility for the model of
drive (powermax?) and note if any bad sectors are detected - if none are
found reinstall from scratch and as long as regular backups are performed
keep using it. If bad sectors are found, run the utility again a while later
(after reinstalling and backing up regularly as above) and see if more are
found - if so, the drive is likely on the way out. I'd also contact Maxtor
to see what could be done to resolve it, depending on the age of the drive -
if its just out of warranty they may still replace it.

If the OP has another machine with a different motherboard that this drive
can be used in, I'd suggest a swap and disable S.M.A.R.T. on that machine.
Also a BIOS upgrade to the LATEST (not necessarily just a newer) version may
fix the issue of S.M.A.R.T. detection not being turned off. The mobo maker
could then be contacted for advise if this didn't work.

Paul

"Paul Murphy" <p_murphynothanks@tospamhotmail.com> wrote in message
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Nice Paul..no offense taken in a previous post either. I have back ups and
it is not one of my main machines. Just something that irritates me a wee
bit when this one boots.

DC