flamesfan Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 The company I work for just recently went into a partnership with another company, the new company brought in new office computers, now this partnership took place 5 months ago. In that five months our office computer has had like 20 bsod's and we also had to replace the 3 750gb hard drives 4 times now. The three hd are in raid as one large hd so everytime they crash we lose everything. Now IT told me the reason the hard drives keep failing is because two of the hd are upside down on the bottom of the case. they are secured down but I didn't think that having a hard drive being upside down would cause them to go bad like that. Any way not really looking for help just thought it was kinda weird and that everyone would get a kick out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 ive never heard of that. i have a few computers that have upside down drives, sideways drives, drives suspended inside the case with rubberbands drives sitting on the carpet while theyre running, you name it. i think its alot harder than people think for a drive to just take a shit on you. especially that many drives in such a short amount of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l337virus Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 ya thats a little weird i have drives that are upside down and they are running fine right now actually my laptop's hard drive is seated upside down and i never had issues with it and i had this laptop for over a year the IT guy is telling you a lie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamesfan Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 so Iam beginning to think that it is actually the software and not the hardware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l337virus Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 so Iam beginning to think that it is actually the software and not the hardware yea is usually the software next time take a pic of the BSOD screen and post it here or just Google the file the cause the crash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhollyMindless Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 If they are localized (in the same area of the office), you might be seeing a power issue. Might be time to call the electrician. (My original answer was that you should stop turning around. Turning your back on a Windows machine is always a mistake.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamesfan Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 If they are localized (in the same area of the office), you might be seeing a power issue. Might be time to call the electrician. (My original answer was that you should stop turning around. Turning your back on a Windows machine is always a mistake.) this is actually the same machine that had that many bsod's and had hard drives crash 4 times now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vector Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 this is actually the same machine that had that many bsod's and had hard drives crash 4 times now the drives still work though dont they? or are they totally dying? if so then they should be covered under warranty. if youre still able to use the drives in another maching then i would suspect failure in another part of the machine. but before you run around playing the guessing game i would get the BSoD error code from the bluescreen and find out what is actually crashing the system.maybe wanna update the bios version and raid drivers as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamesfan Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 if I rememer correctly they are replacing the hd they wiping them and putting them I other machines at other site when they have the same problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webjockey Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 If its a powersurge, you could try buying a surgemaster. They work pretty well, and they are cheaper than UPS's. Its unlikely that the PSU is underpowered if the other ones work fine, and, if the other ones do work fine, (making the assumption that they are all have the same software suites installed), it might not even be a software issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wire Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 yea is usually the software next time take a pic of the BSOD screen and post it here or just Google the file the cause the crash You could try to decipher the error codes, but I highly recommend The Lazy Admin's guide to Debugging STOP Errors With WinDBG. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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