Re: Dying System?


"Bondiablo" <bondiablo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A few years ago I built a system with the components listed below and it's been working
great, until recently. A few months ago I had a hard drive go bad. I replaced the drive
but just copied everything over to the new hard drive including the OS, didn't reinstall
anything. Ever since then I would get random errors, programs closing or even complete
system restarts. I assumed it was just because I needed to do a clean install of Windows
XP. I finally got around to doing that but it hasn't solved anything. I've run stress
tests on the CPU and RAM, both pass. I've done full surface scans on both hard drives, no
problems. It doesn't appear to be a heat or power problem. The errors seem to occur most
often when there is a lot of hard drive activity like, defragmenting, downloading a very
large file, unzipping a large file, converting a large video file... It looks like it
makes an error reading or writing to the disk. Sometimes it gives the same error for the
same file several times but then if I restart it can access the same file without error.
I even tried replacing the IDE cables. I'm at a loss. Any ideas? My best guess at this
point is maybe the connectors on my mother board have gone bad which would really suck
because if I have to replace the motherboard I'd have to replace almost everything else
too.

Case: Kingwin KT424BK w/ (3) Nexus 80mm
PSU: Seasonic SS460AGX
HS: Thermalright XP90 w/ Nexus 92mm
MB: DFI Pro875B rev B
CPU: Intel P4C 2.8GHz ...SL6Z5
RAM: Crucial Ballistix PC4000 2x512MB
Video: Gigabyte GF6800 GVN68128DH
Sound: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Modem: Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI
HDD: (2) Samsung SP1213N
FDD: Mitsumi 1.44MB
DVD: Benq DW1640
CD: Liteon LTR48246S


take out a stick of ram...same problem? swap the one removed for the one left in



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