A question I would like answered. Several months ago, my HP Compaq desktop computer failed. The hard drive seemed to run-away (RPMs ever increasing with no output to the monitor), to the point where I thought it was going to blow-up. When I could not stop it, I shut the power off and pulled the Hard Drive, replacing it with one of my stand-by clones. The same thing happened to the "new" drive (Clone number one), the H.D. became unreadable, began to race. I shut it down and foolishly installed my Clone number two, which crashed also.
So my question is: Does that sound like a malware attack of some kind, or is it more likely that some component or another on the mother board burned-out and sent garbage to the hard drive causing it to go nuts as it (they), did? Note that I leave my computer on, choosing to put it in sleep mode most of the time rather than shut it off.
I tend to believe that it was an unknown mother board failure rather than malware inasmuch as it seems more logical that swapping out the hard drive would have removed the effect of malware.
Agree or disagree? Which was more likely the culprit. Or, could it have been something that has not occurred to me?
Please do not turn this thread into a "shutting down vs. putting to sleep" debate... that is not what I am asking.
So my question is: Does that sound like a malware attack of some kind, or is it more likely that some component or another on the mother board burned-out and sent garbage to the hard drive causing it to go nuts as it (they), did? Note that I leave my computer on, choosing to put it in sleep mode most of the time rather than shut it off.
I tend to believe that it was an unknown mother board failure rather than malware inasmuch as it seems more logical that swapping out the hard drive would have removed the effect of malware.
Agree or disagree? Which was more likely the culprit. Or, could it have been something that has not occurred to me?
Please do not turn this thread into a "shutting down vs. putting to sleep" debate... that is not what I am asking.