BrndNtrl
11-08-2006, 01:04 AM
I've been running into a multitude of issues with my new pc.
First and foremost, my initial Gigabyte DS3 was defective due to a bad video card slot- RMAed and appeared taken care of. Second problem was a memory issue, which doesn't seem to be occuring at the moment. I already RMAed the Corsair RAM, and the issue (random reboots) seems to not be able to be replicated (I was running Dark Crusade, streaming MSNBC's election coverage, and chatting on aim at the same time, no issues tonight until after I had shut stuff down and was just chatting on AIM)
The third occured last night, when I noticed that my drive was 65% full despite having a fairly limited amount of information on it- the Program File folder, my largest folder by far, only reported 20 gigs used.
Then, all of a sudden tonight, I get some REALLY wierd display trouble I figure is linked to IE7- but after usage for about 10 minutes, it becomes clear that it's not IE7 causing the issue. My start menu starts hopping around the screen, the window size starts flipping out, etc. I reboot my system, and am presented with the disk read error, please press ctrl alt del to reboot.
Now, I'm running Eurosoft's PC-Check on it right now (doing the hard drive test). I'm not certain that this is the hard drive, though I guess it's possible windows itself is corrupt (it was installed on faulty memory which doesn't appear to be causing issues right now). Any thoughts as far as what might be the problem?
Specs are in my signature, if that helps.
First and foremost, my initial Gigabyte DS3 was defective due to a bad video card slot- RMAed and appeared taken care of. Second problem was a memory issue, which doesn't seem to be occuring at the moment. I already RMAed the Corsair RAM, and the issue (random reboots) seems to not be able to be replicated (I was running Dark Crusade, streaming MSNBC's election coverage, and chatting on aim at the same time, no issues tonight until after I had shut stuff down and was just chatting on AIM)
The third occured last night, when I noticed that my drive was 65% full despite having a fairly limited amount of information on it- the Program File folder, my largest folder by far, only reported 20 gigs used.
Then, all of a sudden tonight, I get some REALLY wierd display trouble I figure is linked to IE7- but after usage for about 10 minutes, it becomes clear that it's not IE7 causing the issue. My start menu starts hopping around the screen, the window size starts flipping out, etc. I reboot my system, and am presented with the disk read error, please press ctrl alt del to reboot.
Now, I'm running Eurosoft's PC-Check on it right now (doing the hard drive test). I'm not certain that this is the hard drive, though I guess it's possible windows itself is corrupt (it was installed on faulty memory which doesn't appear to be causing issues right now). Any thoughts as far as what might be the problem?
Specs are in my signature, if that helps.