Recent content by Emmet_Brown

There's no error, so I suppose it's normal behaviour. Thank you for your reply!

The only strange thing is the fact that the HDD stops while the screen is still lit, displaying the ''Shutting down'' text with the Windows 7 background. Maybe this is normal for really old computers which do not have SATA drives, cuz for the newer models the HDD stops after the screen goes black.

I am only planning to use this thing to capture content from a tape-based camera using a Firewire card. Most of those cards do not work well with newer computers and operating systems, that's why I got this old PC. I reinstalled Windows 7 and it runs very well, as it's only got 2 programs...

It´s an ATA drive (Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB 7200RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive - WD1600JB-22REA0). Is this normal behaviour for ATA drives too?

Yeah, you´re right. ´´If it ain´t broke, don´t fix it.´´ Thanks for replying!

Yeah, pretty much. I installed HDD Sentinel and the drive's health is 99% and the performance is 100%. The problem is that the HDD clicks once and then shuts down before the screen goes black.

Hello! So I recently got this old PC from a relative and it seems to work fine, except for the fact that it shuts down very aggressively. The computer runs Windows 7. When I open the Start Menu and I click the Shut Down button, the Shut Down process initiates and after a few seconds the Hard...