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Old 04-29-2007, 07:59 AM
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One of my work colleges had the exact same error message last week and it turned out his hard drive had overheated and was fried.
However, if you managed to get the message to go away by shifting SATA port, then perhaps it is the SATA port in question which is faulty, and for that I know no way to solve it without changing the motherboard. And if you have no apparent instability issues or problems by using the different SATA, then I'll just do that for now. If you can access the hard drive, I'd hurry and back up what needs backing up in case it goes out on you again.

If you have the option to do so, then you could try testing another hard drive in the SATA or perhaps the hard drive on another motherboard. This of course is difficult unless you either know somebody who'll let you do it, or have additional hardware yourself. There are also some tools for harddrives which can test them for various problems, but not having had the need myself, I can't guide you towards any.


Sorry I can't give you any concrete information to go by, but as you have discovered by searching, it is a rather generic error for some serious problems.
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