PATA drive randomly shutting down / XP SP2

[DeepBlue]

My 80gb PATA drive keeps shutting down randomly while using the computer, or yet while I leave it alone using p2p (I know when I come back, because I watch the event viewer and, though there's not any specific event to be found, a "microsoft windows bleh bleh start up process bleh bleh" event appears, so I know the puter restarted itself)

 

This kept on hapenning to me while using windows 2k3 server, and now that I switched back to XP SP2 (last night...), with all and the freshly installed darn thing the disk keeps randomly shutting down on me and the puter restarts if I try to access it.

 

Anybody has or had the same problem?

My maxtor (yet refurbished) sata drive is not doing this.

 

Last thing I did this morning was to rereoute the cables a bit so the pata gets a "good" rounded one and the opticals take the originally packed one with the MB, I left a molex power cable which was shared with a fan alone and am now using one of those braided molexs that come with my psu just for this drive alone... But I couldn't test anything as I did it on a 10 minute rush before having to come to work, and I couldn't even leave the puter on cos as soon as I tried I heard the sound of a rattling fan (means: I left something inside there touching the fan and had no time to reopen the thing and try again, I had already squeezed the last minute before I had to rush out for the bus )

 

I've been browsing the net, searching through this forum and nforcershq's also, and the only thing I could find is that this was a problem for many on the nforce2 era, but nothing related to nforce 4 amd so far.

Any comments will be appreciated

 

PS: Sorry for my bad english, been quite a while since I don't actively practise it.

[acphydro]

I had this same issue with a 300GB PATA Seagate drive. I tried many things like you did, and eventually RMA'd it. No problems since.