Strange Behaviour...LONG POST

[Sasha]

I updated the BIOS on my ThinkPad yesterday and everything went smoothly..... I was working and about an hour or so after the update, I noticed that the row "HDD #0" and the temperature in Mobilemeter have vanished. Right clicked on Mobilemeter, navigated to the HDD tab and everything is greyed out and no HDD information was available. I get the message "No HDD detected on the IDE motherboard..Please check the connections" or something similar to that......

I thought that mebbe there was something wrong with the polling of Mobile meter and restarted my machine........the laptop booted up into Windows, but nothing worked. My touchpad had stopped functioning. I could use my trackpoint and the trackpoint buttons..when I clicked the "start" button, the menus showed, but nothing worked when I clicked on them. None of the icons on my Quicklaunch toolbar worked, neither did the ones in the system tray. PANIC!!!!! I thought, coupled with the earlier behaviour of Mobilemeter, that my HDD was taking it's last breath. Considering the fact that the laptop was only a couple of months old, Ws cursing my luck.

Restarted my laptop in SAFE mode and ran ChkDsk. No problems, no bad sectors, nothing....

Let my laptop rest for an hour and decide whether it wanted to be work or not....Restarted the laptop an hour later and everything was OK....(till now atleast )

Is this an impending hard disk failure or what?

[Kenn]

Doesn't sound like a hard drive problem to me, though I'm not sure what it could be. Could be a fluke.

Did you update the embedded controller program as well as your BIOS?

[Sasha]

Yep..it's Ver 3.04 now....

[jdhurst]

I had Mobile Meter running fine on my T41 with the prior BIOS and EC 3.04 for a while. I updated to the new BIOS last week when it came out, and Mobile Meter reports fine just like it did. So I think Mobile Meter, at least, is OK. ... JD Hurst

[Sasha]

UPDATE....

Found that PowerBooster 2K (Hitachi software for optimizing the power consumption of the harddisk) is the one causing the problems with MobileMeter. If I disable PowerBooster, I get the HDD temperature in MobileMeter.