Advisary Upon Start Up

Jim Mardock

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I guess I'd call it an advisery ? Everytime I start my computerfor the last week, I get this page:

Award Medallion BIOS v6.0
Copyright (C) 1984 -2001, Award Software, Inc

Copyright 2001 by Hewlet Packard Company
Rev. 3.08

Award Plug and PlayBIOS Extension v1.0A
Initialize Plug and Play Cards......

Detecting Primary Master*********** Samsung SV4002H
Detecting Primary Slave *********** None
Detecting Secondary Master ******** HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B
Detecting Secondary Slave ********* None
Smart Failure Predidted on Primary Master: Samsung SV4002H
WARNING: Immediately backup your data and replace your hard
disk drive.
A failure may be imminent.



Press F2 to continue, F1 to enter setup.


This is an HP pavilion.
I just added memory back in early December, but haven't had any problems untill a week ago. I hit F2 and continue on, but it's annoying and there must be a reason for it .
 
WARNING: Immediately backup your data and replace your hard
disk drive.
A failure may be imminent.

Your hard drive is about to fail. Save any important data onto a cd, and call HP.
 
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