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utfreak

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So I was on my pc playing WoW today and everything froze. I waited a while and finally decided to restart it. (Via power button) Now, whenever I boot up it asks whether I want to start normally, last known good config, safe mode and etc. I've tried each one but the same thing still happens. The windows loading screen comes up, and the progress bar goes about halfway and then it auto-restarts itself. I have a feeling that my hard drive is dead. But I'd like to go to you guys.

I have SATA HD's and when they prompt me to push f6 to install them so it can recognize my HD's I do so. Instal and everything. But, when I go to repair i got a BSOD with the Driver IRQL Not Less or Equal error. At the information part of the BSOD my viamraid.sys driver is shown. Could it be that this sata driver is corrupt?
 
I always try to isolate the problem as much as possible. Unplug everything you have that isn't required to boot the system: networking cables, burners/ROM's, floppy's, extra HDD's, video card (if you have onboard video), and so on.

The reason I say this is that i had a networking driver giving my similiar troubles once and I always assumed it was a HDD or a software issue.

Good Luck!

BTW: you didn't overheat while gaming did you? Got ample cooling? Monitor your temps often?
 
I'm pretty sure I didn't overheat. I'll try to isolate my problem though.
 
If you have a spare HD around try reinstalling windows on it, it sounds like it is a software problem to me.
 
You have a bootable cd that has an OS on it not sure if you heard of Bart PE or hell even a cd with linux on it.
 
If you can borrow someone's computer and burner, there are a number of linux distros out there that have bootable CD .isos available. I've used the Ubuntu one in the past to recover stuff off a HDD where the user deleted the windows directory (don't ask). Might want to give that a shot and see if it's the OS or not.
 
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