Solve : S.M.A.R.T.?

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Answer» What could cause the S.M.A.R.T. to do this: PC cards not SHOWING up, etc. How to fix this. . .for my customer Oh--and we think it has something to do with the S.M.A.R.T. because he asked about that and the PC book said something about PC cards being related to S.M.A.R.T. Windows XP (not sure which edition), 10GB Western Digital Caviar HD, pentium IV processor.Sorry, I forgot to mention: replaced 60GB Western digital HD with 10 GB drive after 60GB drive's little motor-runner thing got fried (rest of drive and data otherwise intact). S.M.A.R.T.I already LOOKED at that. it did not answer my question. We're almost certain it is a good HD.Download this: http://support.wdc.com/download/windlg/WinDLG.zipOkay. I'll have him try that. Someone said something about turning it off? would S.M.A.R.T. fail to register if it was disabled? Quote would S.M.A.R.T. fail to register if it was disabled? Yes. But why would you want to? If it indicates a Hard DISK Drive is failing, you should immediatly back-up data and test it. Can we re-enable it? we think it might be causing the the PC cards to not show up. We're pretty sure the HD is okay. Is what I described in my first post possible? Quote Can we re-enable it? we think it might be causing the the PC cards to not show up. We're pretty sure the HD is okay. Is what I described in my first post possible? You can enable and disable S.M.A.R.T if the BIOS allows you to. I assume this concerns a Laptop? I have no experience with PC cards.Tower, actually :-/ Quote Tower, actually :-/ And you make use of PC cards in a tower? What for?Sound card, TV card, etc. not registering on the PC. Also, this customer asked about S.M.A.R.T. not showing up, so that's why I titled the topic that. Quote Sound card, TV card, etc. not registering on the PC. Also, this customer asked about S.M.A.R.T. not showing up, so that's why I titled the topic that. Those are called Expansion cards, PC cards are PCMCIA cards that go into the side of a laptop. Quote Sound card, TV card, etc. not registering on the PC. Does Windows XP autodetect them?If it saw them, I wouldn't be telling you that it doesn't!! and it definitely doesn't!Is the plug and play program enabled in the bios setup..

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What could cause the S.M.A.R.T. to do this: PC cards not SHOWING up, etc. How to fix this. . .for my customer

Oh--and we think it has something to do with the S.M.A.R.T. because he asked about that and the PC book said something about PC cards being related to S.M.A.R.T.

Windows XP (not sure which edition), 10GB Western Digital Caviar HD, pentium IV processor.Sorry, I forgot to mention: replaced 60GB Western digital HD with 10 GB drive after 60GB drive's little motor-runner thing got fried (rest of drive and data otherwise intact). S.M.A.R.T.I already LOOKED at that. it did not answer my question. We're almost certain it is a good HD.Download this: http://support.wdc.com/download/windlg/WinDLG.zipOkay. I'll have him try that. Someone said something about turning it off? would S.M.A.R.T. fail to register if it was disabled? Quote

would S.M.A.R.T. fail to register if it was disabled?

Yes. But why would you want to? If it indicates a Hard DISK Drive is failing, you should immediatly back-up data and test it.

Can we re-enable it? we think it might be causing the the PC cards to not show up. We're pretty sure the HD is okay. Is what I described in my first post possible? Quote

Can we re-enable it? we think it might be causing the the PC cards to not show up. We're pretty sure the HD is okay. Is what I described in my first post possible?

You can enable and disable S.M.A.R.T if the BIOS allows you to.

I assume this concerns a Laptop? I have no experience with PC cards.Tower, actually :-/ Quote

Tower, actually :-/

And you make use of PC cards in a tower? What for?Sound card, TV card, etc. not registering on the PC. Also, this customer asked about S.M.A.R.T. not showing up, so that's why I titled the topic that. Quote

Sound card, TV card, etc. not registering on the PC. Also, this customer asked about S.M.A.R.T. not showing up, so that's why I titled the topic that.

Those are called Expansion cards, PC cards are PCMCIA cards that go into the side of a laptop.

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Sound card, TV card, etc. not registering on the PC.

Does Windows XP autodetect them?If it saw them, I wouldn't be telling you that it doesn't!! and it definitely doesn't!Is the plug and play program enabled in the bios setup..

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