IBM GXP Problems: The Truth Exposed and Possible Fixes (arti

[parthena]

That's really tidy, BUhockey, did you make any of those rounded cables? (Bit difficult to tell from pic.)

I'm just rebuilding my setup and am all tangled up in wires - I've put a CDRom drive in the top bay, left an empty bay underneath it, then CD-RW under that - thinking about heat. But these P4-ready cases have more PSU wires than ATX-only, so I may have to move the top drive down. Or can I tuck the spare PSU stuff in between the 2 drives?

As you can guess, I'm not exactly the most experienced builder, and I'm a bit worried about bundling up cables in case they overheat??????

I've got 80mm Evercools front and back, and a slot fan beside the AGP video card; now i've put a 2-fan Akasa cooler on my new 120GXP. Power is Antec 340W. CPU is non-overclocked 1gb Athlon 200fsb with non-screaming fan on heatsink.

Please tell me if I'm in danger of overloading.

[Morgan_Lander]

Shoot, dude I got a heftier system that that running on an Antec 350

AOpen AK77 Pro (KT266), T-Bird 1.4 @ 1.58 (151x10.5), Gainward GF3 @ 251/571, 512MB PC2100 DDR.

Stable. Antec's PSU's are good.

[parthena]

When I clicked Send/Rec to send you that email, in came a notification from Tweaktown that Morgan had posted - so this is where we met :).

So I'll tell everyone here that the noise in my pc was not my 75GXP, it was the PSU - which is actually a Chieftec 340W, I called it Antec because I thought that was the American name for it.

Morgan

Thanks for the info - I'm temporarily running on an old 300W now, nice and smooth, but I've taken out the slot fan 'just in case'.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you were lucky... :)

[BUhockey13]

Talking PSUs.... I'm running a 431W Enermax on my rig..... :D Even has temperature sensitive cooling fans.... revs up when the case gets hot and down when it's cool..... now that's cool :)

[khaotic]

great article Cam,

I've got an 60GXP 60 Gb ... thought I had a great disk t'ill it was 3 months old ... it clicked and made some other ugly noises , when it booted again (after a resting period of 1/2 h) I had 'lucky me' a disk with bad sectors/clusters, and I don't even use it at 100% performance since my mobo only supports udma 33.

My local pc shop performed a low lvl format (tried this first, otherwise would have been bigdiskless for +/- 2-3 weeks) and now it works fine again, but I'm gonna install some cooling, i dont thrust it anymore.


greetz khaotic

[Anonymous]

I have the IBM 60GXP in 40GB. I have used this with an older 550 Athlon which heats up like crazy.

I have a full tower case and have used the baycooler HD Coolers (www.baycooler.com) from day one of getting the drive. Cheap but effective. I did manage to fry out a Maxtor 5400 drive when I had the Athlon in a mid tower case.

I have since learned my lesson and now use cooling fans on all of my HDD.

So far my IBM HDD is still running fine without noises and I leave my system on 24/7. I have no issues so far so I'm not buying into the fact that these HDD should run only 8 hours a day.

I'm not quite sure if these are like some cars, some are good and some are bad. I'm gonna get another IBM HDD, this time an 80GXP and hopefully I won't have issues with it.

The 80 is gonna be transported hell and back and in mid towers and elsewhere as I have Computer Classes to take this quarter. I'll have to see how this one holds up. It will have a single fan in the removable HDD Case.

Wish me luck with this one guys.

[Andy]

I have the IBM 60GXP in 40GB.... I have no issues so far so I'm not buying into the fact that these HDD should run only 8 hours a day.

IBM say that the 120GXP drives should run only 8 hours a day, not the earlier models

[Wiggo]

Here's a list of sites that have or are on IBM's case about their HDD's.

http://www.hardocp.com/

http://www.siliconstrategies.com/

http://www.tech-report.com/

http://www.theinquirer.net/

http://www.viahardware.com/

and that's only a few off the top of my head plus all have a good standing in the industry. :smokin:
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[Mr.Tweak]

Wait, you missed TweakTown! :D

[Mr. C]

Apparently IBM has decided the problem would best be addressed by the Hitachi corporation.
Yep, seems IBM is leaving the Harddrive business.

http://money.cnn.com/2002/04/16/technology/bc.tech.ibm.hitachi.reut/index.htm

Well, not exactly leaving, see the article.

[T-Shirt]

Wait, you missed TweakTown! :D

And the list would be a lot shorter , if it was people /sites/users not affected/pissed off by the IBM deathstars.

[-GK-]

sorry to dig this up again, but i got my new IBM HDD a few months ago and its been running fine. I added a 92mm panaflo directly under the drive and its always on, the entire HDD is very cool to the touch even after heavy gaming. Now im busy downloading all the data i lost :\

well anyway, everythings working fine now, although its really REALLY dusty ;)