WD Green troubleshooting

[matsta31]

Hi, Just bought a WD green 1.5 TB for my WHS.

I shutted down the WHS, Installed the drive (took out power first) and rebooted. On restart the booting was extremeley long and I could ear a strange ticking sound. Finally it booted, got into device manger and nothing. The bios did not see a drive neither upon re-boot. There was a note on the drive regarding XP alignement and/or jumper. So, I used the jumper, and still nothing.

I tried the drive in my windows 7 rig (without jumper, same ticking sound and long bootup and the drive is till not recognised..
Any tought on troubleshooting steps I should take ? or is is RMA already ?

[gingerbee]

well that sounds like a dead drive to me

[_dangtx_]

if you tried it on two machines, with different cables, power connectors, jumper configuration as you stated, plus the sound? gone. is it a brand new one, refurbished, open box?

either or, unless the machine well mobo is super old, if its not seen forget about it. go here and gl! or go to the store and get another one if its in the store you bought it.

[matsta31]

Ok, I'll call NICX tommorw. I tried it on a 8200a ECS mobo (my WHS rig) and on the SR-2. RMA time it is. It is a brand new drive, bought it on sale woith free shipping.

[_dangtx_]

aha, was it shipped a la ncix, i.e. drive on one side, packing on the other? i know a guy who returns them asap without even trying them upon such arrival :)

[matsta31]

I have another RAM to do, do you think I can put two in a box ? :)

[gingerbee]

if there both going to ncix i really don't see why not but i have never had to ncix returns that quick kinda sucks sorry man

[_dangtx_]

yup. write both the rma numbers on the box.

[matsta31]

Cool thanks, They sent me the wrong DVi canble twice! and now they want them back lol !

[_dangtx_]

np. do they cover shipping? :) also check out this : Disk boot failure