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craigie b
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PostPosted: 18:22 - 11 Jan 2007    Post subject: PC HArdware faults Reply with quote

Hi,

My PC is playing funny buggers and its doing my tits in as I'm very busy at present. Basically the PC is having trouble finding my D drive (which is a hard drive), trouble booting (it has been freezing on the initial power on screen before windows even loads), it has frozen whilst booting up in Safe mode and when it does load it either does not see my D drive (with all my work) or will see it but crash if I attempt to open it.

On rebooting I am often presented with a disk check which begins correcting lots of files (which I've never seen before with a disk check).

Anyway I figuire the issue is hardware based ratehr than software and I was wondering if there is any good free diagnostic software that will let me investigate the problem (rather than having to build a new pc from scratch).

Regards
Craig
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techierob
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PostPosted: 19:52 - 11 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually use a live cd of some sort. Knoppix and the trinity rescue kit should both have memtest86 and badblocks which should diagnose any memory or disk problems.
It sounds like either a fruity disk, a knackered mobo or corrupt bios at a guess
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satans_BIG_helper
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PostPosted: 11:18 - 12 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

Could be a few things..

most likely Dodgy Hard Drive (unfortunately they screw up now and then and its a pain) as said above a disk checking utility may sort this problem tho

secondly maybe your motherboard is just slowly self destructing (not much can be done about that except a new board)

thirdly power supply unit, i have had a few of these go in customer computers and they cause various issues with different parts of the hardware might be worth popping the side of the case off and seeing how full of dust the PSU is as if its not getting cooled properly it will not put out enough power or eratic power.

And another thing to do is to check all the cables are in place IDE (the ones from the hard drives to the motherboard) and the 4 pin molex connectors (the power cables to the drives)

Also check the power cable from the socket to the computer.
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Optikn3rv
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PostPosted: 09:33 - 13 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just lost a 350gb D:\ drive, same symptoms "lock ups' slow pc when accessing D:\ drive" ran norton disk doctor on it and it said bad blocks at the end of the drive but i couldnt get it to write them away not to be used, this also corrupted my c:\ drive etc. Lost about 500gb data in all Wink

backups ? wtf makes backups
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dransy
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PostPosted: 11:51 - 13 Jan 2007    Post subject: Reply with quote

few answer

1) if the D drive is USB sometimes the motherboard will actually try to start windows up on that.

2) master/slave might having a few issues so make sure its set proper

3) hard drive might be damaged from static or been put on a dogdey angle in the computer which can affect it also.

4) power supple, the power supply to rest of the computer might be a bit drained with how uve wired it up so check that out.

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