Weird Hard Drive problem...

[daniellevine]

I would agree with everyone else, most likely it is not an elevation problem as the hard drives are kept "air tight" and usually built with a very sturdy metal shell.

Also what did the "the blue screen of death" say, ? Because usually it will give an error report and through that you can usually nail the problem. For example I had a problem with my RAM and it would show an error report regarding the dumping of the physical memory. But anyhow if you are not having any further problems then you should be fine.

But in regards to possible problems, I would say it must have something to do with the fan system, ram, or just a typical dust problem. As typically when a hard drive has any type of massive problems, like you stated, they usually don't fix themselves, .

-Logan

I didn't write down the blue screen numbers. But for everyone who thinks this was not an elevation problem, it's now been weeks and my computer works as good as ever.

In Reno: Tried to use computer 20-25 times. Was successful 0 times. Heard a clicking and whirling each time, followed by a frozen screen, then a bsod.

Outside of Reno: Tried to use computer 500+ times. Had 0 problems. Never had a bsod.

I understand that a lot of you know the finer points about computers; however, the evidence is indisputable that SOMETHING in Reno caused this thing to continually crash. I'm ruling out the temperature because it was in hotel room which was normal temp, and even the next day it didn't work (so it also wasn't a problem with changing temps quickly.)

I admit I was extremely skeptical that this could be an elevation problem. I googled it from my Iphone (which worked fine) and found only theoretical evidence about elevations affecting hard drives, and then only at 10,000+ feet. Reno isn't even half of that. So, at that point I figured either the RAM, Hard Drive, or fan was toast. You can imagine my surprise when I got home to San Jose to find my computer was working exactly as it had pre-Reno.