Really weird problem with my harddrive.

[jbz7890]

A week ago, I made a post about the delayed write failed messages I was receiving.

Well, I reinstalled Windows, and everything ram swimmingly for a week. Today, however, upon turning on my computer, I was greeted with a nasty surprise -- a blue screen of death.

I restarted my computer, and my brand new hard drive was not detected! I restarted my computer several times to no avail. Then I opened my computer and moved my SATA connector from the first jack to the second one, and then my computer booted up perfectly!

Does anyone know what is going on? I feel that it's only a matter of time before I get another BSOD and cannot start my computer, since my brother had the same problem.

My hard drive, PSU, RAM, and CPU are all fine, so I think my motherboard is the only remaining suspect. However, I am baffled by the fact that the problem goes away -- at least temporarily -- when I switch the SATA jack.
Any insight into my problem would be greatly appreciated.

[DonDon]

Sounds to me like your hard drive is starting to die. The bad sector recovery routines can take up to 2 minutes to recover a bad sector. Your system may have a delayed write failure, or BSOD, but check out fine on reboot. Use a utility like HDTune to check your smart data and see if the reallocated sector count is much above zero.

Don

[jbz7890]

Sounds to me like your hard drive is starting to die. The bad sector recovery routines can take up to 2 minutes to recover a bad sector. Your system may have a delayed write failure, or BSOD, but check out fine on reboot. Use a utility like HDTune to check your smart data and see if the reallocated sector count is much above zero.

Don

I had suspected that my hard drive was causing the problems at first, but I have tried 3 different hard drives, and all of the diagnostic tools I have used indicate that my hard drives are fine..

Is it possible that motherboard is causing the problems, or are the problems I'm having strictly associated with hard drives?

[DougLite]

Could be a bad trace on the board to the wonky SATA port, could be a defect in the southbridge. Stuff like this is rare, but not unheard of. One of the more common versions of such oddities is a motherboard with a bad RAM slot.