Reply 20 of 29, by eesz34
ontrca wrote on 2023-05-10, 01:46:eesz34 wrote on 2023-05-09, 16:29:Also, have you taken the top cover off to see if there's anything non-standard in there?
I took the cover off.
Looks very normal. Does it perform a seek at boot, provided that's enabled in BIOS? Older BIOSes did not have the ability to turn it off.
Provided it does, another thing to try is format a disk with it. Let's say the alignment is way off. You could likely still format a disk. At least you'd know that much.