GZS
09-05-2008, 09:29 AM
To make a long story short, (It might end up still being long) I was using my desktop yesterday. It locked up when I was loading a map for COD4. It's never locked up on me before, so I freaked and hard-reboot it.
When it went to load Windows, it said "NTLDR is missing, press ALT + CTRL + DEL to restart".
I went through the system recovery console and replaced NTLDR and NTLDRdetect.com manually. It still didn't fix.
I reinstalled windows without reformatting so I could save a few things I wanted. Once those were saved, I turned my computer off and switched the SATA cables for my hard drives. I have previously had my primary in SATA slot 2 and my secondary in SATA slot 1. I just switched the order in Bios as opposed to opening my case. I figured, while I was fixing things, I'd been meaning to do that.
After the cables were switched, I reformatted and reinstalled windows (XP SP3).
I got into windows last night, but Road Runner sucks and crashed for about five hours, so I left it sitting all night without any drivers. This morning I get up and begin installing drivers. I finish all of them and start installing my programs. The order I installed them-
Firefox, Thunderbird, AVG, Trillian, VLC, Steam (Along with my steam games) Richard Burns Rally, Live For Speed (Stand alone, copied from my second hard drive).
Now, After getting Thunderbird installed, I BSOD'd. I figured it was because I was installing five programs at once and thought nothing more of it.
Just surfing, another BSOD.
I check into my system event viewer and no error pertaining to the install, but it says that my D drive is giving errors. I've deduced that the SATA cable is bad, or going bad and will replace it when I finish writing this... but would a bad SATA cable on a secondary hard drive cause BSOD's? What else could be going on here to piss on Windows? It's taking about 2 minutes to get past the title screen (With the bar scanning).
Specs:
Q6600
4 gigs A-Data 667
Asus P5N32-E-SLI
Lite-ON dvd burner
2x 500 gig WD's
EVGA 9600GT
Some other stuff?
When it went to load Windows, it said "NTLDR is missing, press ALT + CTRL + DEL to restart".
I went through the system recovery console and replaced NTLDR and NTLDRdetect.com manually. It still didn't fix.
I reinstalled windows without reformatting so I could save a few things I wanted. Once those were saved, I turned my computer off and switched the SATA cables for my hard drives. I have previously had my primary in SATA slot 2 and my secondary in SATA slot 1. I just switched the order in Bios as opposed to opening my case. I figured, while I was fixing things, I'd been meaning to do that.
After the cables were switched, I reformatted and reinstalled windows (XP SP3).
I got into windows last night, but Road Runner sucks and crashed for about five hours, so I left it sitting all night without any drivers. This morning I get up and begin installing drivers. I finish all of them and start installing my programs. The order I installed them-
Firefox, Thunderbird, AVG, Trillian, VLC, Steam (Along with my steam games) Richard Burns Rally, Live For Speed (Stand alone, copied from my second hard drive).
Now, After getting Thunderbird installed, I BSOD'd. I figured it was because I was installing five programs at once and thought nothing more of it.
Just surfing, another BSOD.
I check into my system event viewer and no error pertaining to the install, but it says that my D drive is giving errors. I've deduced that the SATA cable is bad, or going bad and will replace it when I finish writing this... but would a bad SATA cable on a secondary hard drive cause BSOD's? What else could be going on here to piss on Windows? It's taking about 2 minutes to get past the title screen (With the bar scanning).
Specs:
Q6600
4 gigs A-Data 667
Asus P5N32-E-SLI
Lite-ON dvd burner
2x 500 gig WD's
EVGA 9600GT
Some other stuff?