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ray4389

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Ok I have built my system--not my first build and I'm getting some weird errrors.
Sometimes on startup internet won't work, but will after restart.
Sometimes my 2nd harddrive will currupt after restart and I will be greeted by a CHKSDK screen at startup \ and the only way to to get passed is to "hit any key" to skip it and log in so I can run CHKDSK /F in teh command console.

Now I have had a problem in the past where a motherboard was going bad causing random shutdowns of games (BF2 won't start), some BSODs, etc, but I thought it was a PSU problem or RAM problem. The RAM i'm using was in my old build and worked fine. My PSU however was from the same build and in order for it to run, I used a 20->24 connecter and 2 molex->6 pin for the vid card. I'm highly considering buying a new PSU, but I still remember the Mobo problemI had in the past.

What should I do? BTW this was ordered on Newegg, and I do not have unlimited time to send it back...

If it's the board, do I need to RMA it to the manufactor, or send it to newegg?
Also if it happens to be the harddrive, send it to Newegg? It's an OEM harddrive...
 
The fact that it ony currupts my #2 harddrive leads me to believe it's just bad. Note that the games were installed on it.
 
I have now replaced the motherboard, and it was doing fine...but then it won't boot up. It gets passed the bios screen and when windows goes to start with the laoding bar it restarts.

Either the PSU is underpowered, or my hardrive is dead. Which one? BTW both my new hardrives would be dead if it is an HD issue. What are the chances?
 
BTW it seems the windows repair has helped fix the side-effects of the problem. That makes me believe it's the PSU that keeps currupting crap. I'm no expert so correct me if I'm wrong. I already believed my 430 Watt Trupower that doesn't have a 24 pin connector or 6 pin connector would have some problems...

I just wanted to see if it would work--and if it did I would have saved money...looks liek it isn't working.
 
It's usually not a good idea to use 20--> 24 pin adapters.

Is the motherboard the same as the original? If it isn't then the Windows not wanting to boot until after a repair is normal. If the hardware configuration changes then sometimes Windows' boot load can't find some of the files needed to boot (HAL, kernel, the registry, etc) and will blue screen or give an error message. But if the system is configured to restart after a BSOD, which is the default, you won't see it because it reboots as fast as the error message is displayed. Doing the repair install fix the configuration settings in the registry so that Windows now looks in the correct place for it needed files

Other times, it's an old driver problem. Windows tried to load the old driver and it errors out on the new hardware, so Windows spits out a BSOD, and again restarts before you have time to see it.
 
Why do I still get downloads currupted? Also my lan is not working now...wtf?
 
If you want to know if the PSU is suspect, use less power and see if it works better.
Unplug things you dont need, clock the CPU/gfx/memory down and reduce voltages.
 
As said above, your problem is with the PSU, I guess. I had similar problems during past few days and system recovered when I unplugged one HDD.
 
I replaced my PSU with a Antec Smart Power 500 watt 2.0 one. It seems to be running normal. *knocks on wood*

Thanks for caring. :)
 
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