Computer Hardware Support - Re: false SMART indication.

Computer Hardware Support - Re: false SMART indication.

>> Good evening, this problem continue always worst...
>> what I realize is that if I reboot without swithing off the power
>> works eveytime. If I shutoff than I've to start trying 20-30 times...
>> where can I try to do something? difficult to live like this...
>> thanks.
>> david
>>
>>
>> *Hi,
>> *since one year, my asus L8400B laptop has a strange problem: at boot
>> *says that SMART indicates imminent failure and the boot stops.
>> *impossible to disable smart feature from the BIOS. month after month
>> *the problem happens much more often, sometimes needing to restart
>> *20-30 times to make the system start. indcation is false, because
>> *disabling the smart support with the harddrive utility it happens
>> *anyway, and also it happens with different disks. when it happens
>> *floppy and cd-rom are not detected by the bios.
>> *I suppose it's a motherboard problem.
>> *any similar behaviour?
>> *thank you.
>> *
>> *david
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It might also be worth a try to replace the motherboard to hard drive data
cable.