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Has anybody experienced any hard drive issues after installing a WiFi
card in a tower machine?
I installed a Belkin 11G card in an Antec Tower case. I'm also
running a Maxtor IDE controller expansion card to control four extra
hard drives in this machine. The drives are all connected using the
round IDE cables.
After installing the WiFi card, I started experiencing disk lockups
with the drive heads banging themselves to the calibrate position.
Eventually, I lost data on two drives. The machine would lockup after
a few minutes of operation and the drive indicators on the case would
come on and stay on.
I thought at first I had a drive problem, so I started disconnecting
drives to isolate which one was going bad, but all four drives
indicated the same problem.
The solution was to place the WiFi card in the bottom slot on the MB,
with the IDE controller card in the top slot and then tie the drive
cables as far as possible from the WiFi card.
Greg
Has anybody experienced any hard drive issues after installing a WiFi
card in a tower machine?
I installed a Belkin 11G card in an Antec Tower case. I'm also
running a Maxtor IDE controller expansion card to control four extra
hard drives in this machine. The drives are all connected using the
round IDE cables.
After installing the WiFi card, I started experiencing disk lockups
with the drive heads banging themselves to the calibrate position.
Eventually, I lost data on two drives. The machine would lockup after
a few minutes of operation and the drive indicators on the case would
come on and stay on.
I thought at first I had a drive problem, so I started disconnecting
drives to isolate which one was going bad, but all four drives
indicated the same problem.
The solution was to place the WiFi card in the bottom slot on the MB,
with the IDE controller card in the top slot and then tie the drive
cables as far as possible from the WiFi card.
Greg