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can car vibration make damage to Hard disk in may g4?
By: giannidsg Rank: Starfleet Ensign Postings: 2 From: n/a	Posted: Sa Jun 30, 2007 - 08:34 Hi to all, I have sent to cartft my new g4 because after 2 working hour in my audi tt, windows go to crash, I have tried to reinstall windows xp (pro and home from an original cd) but when I come to 11% of copyng file I give an error "can't copy file driver.cab", now my question is? can car vibration damage or make problem to the G4? thanks
By: admin Rank: Starfleet Vice Admiral Postings: 463 From: Germany	Posted: Sa Jun 30, 2007 - 02:53 No, car vibration is no problem for the G4 or the HDD. Only ~1 in 1000 harddisks are failing. And if they fail then they usually have the defect since the beginning and show it within the first weeks during operation. So actually you only had bad luck
By: dizbo Rank: Starfleet Ensign Postings: 3 From: n/a	Posted: Di Jan 29, 2008 - 12:00 i have my pc on top of a sub woofer. now i dont play the music loud that there would be a huge vibration and most of the time that i do play music loud the pc is off. but i am having the same problem with windows crashing about 4 times in the last week and a half. it didn't do it for the first week i had it installed but after that it has crashed 3-5 times. only have it installed about 3 3&1/2 weeks.