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Well, I guess I'll try to describe this...
win xp home
1gb c xms
barton 2500+
a7n8x-deluxe rev2 nforce2
radeon 9700pro
I built this pc I believe a little over 2 years ago (don't quote me on that).
I originally had 1 drive.. western digital 8mb cache 7200rpm 80gb. One day in Everquest it was lagging hard and I found the driv ein PIO mode with ide errors in admin logs...turns out it was overheating and i fixed the problem with an increase of the fan speed fan embedded in my slide out hd bay.
long story short, my sister is dumb and cannot walk 5 feet to the bathroom to use her hairdryer, so my pc suffered numerous power cuts form the fuse blowing in the house, though it is behind sufficient power surge protector.
sometime during the pc's life I added a second drive, same build except 120gb.
first drive is partitioned into c/d/e for windows, cache files, programs. second drive is all anime. I started to get clicking and i assumed it was the first drive as it happened after a powerup from a blown fuse >_> I don't remember if this was before or after I bought the slave drive. 80 and 120 are on primary ide (yes i know wd drives are tempermental with jumper settings, they are correct for the setup).
Anyway, the clicking was once in a blue moon. I had a liteon dvd and a liteon cd burner on the secondary ide...however i ended up disconnecting them later on to install a dvd burner liteon on secondary master. I also pulled a 120 maxtor 8mb cache 7200rpm form a pc where it was the MASTER drive with windows installed. I installed it as a slave on secondary ide and completely wiped the drive, slow format..it now houses everything else I d/l.
my computer started to get worse, as one day (believe it was a week after the maxtor was installed) I started getting clicking while trying to load windows to the point where the system would lock up and not get into windows without a reset 3 or 4 times. Once I was in windows I had no problems except that many times firefox would light up my hd light for minutes randomly when loading a page but would get through. I thought maybe mbr was damaged, and i did try to fix mbr and eventually fixboot. None of them solved the problem. Recently Now I've gotten locked up in windows and in everquest from clicking. I decided to replace the main drive with a seagate 120gb 8mb cache 7200rpm.
When I installed it, I took out the wd 80gb and replaced it with the seagate and booted up and pt in my winxp cd. the computer hung at ide checking ~_~ a repower got me to loading windows on the cd...drivers laoded fine but it took extroirdinarly long to load "windows" I eventually got to partitioning screen and told it to make a primary on the new drive for it's entire size(minus the normal 8mb). I let it sti for an hour but I believe it froze as my hd ligt was red permanently the entire time...I gave up and powered down(which might of killed the drive..or maybe it already was dead).
Anyway, I tried a few more times, half the time the pc doesnt even see the new drive. I've tried every drive combonation. I'm currently back on the original 80gb wd and was able to get into windows. ii disconnected all other drives and when i plug in the seagate to primary ide slave, or secondary master, or secondary slave the pc won't load windows. I've even tried plugging in the drive while i was in windows, but no go.
I'm really starting to think, maybe the main drive isn't dead? or maybe it is dying and the new drive is dead AND one or both of my iide ports is/are damaged? The computer seems to have much more trouble getting into windows when I have drives on the 2nd ide (even optical).
I had to sell the parts to my 2nd pc for bills, so I don't have anything to swap really. i can't afford another motherboard to "see". What pisses me off is I will lose my $50 mail in rebate for this seagate since I bought it the last day of the MIR..if I return it, the new one will be a day past on the receipt.
I'm not the hacker elite pc artist
..but I can get through software problems easy, have programming and networking behind me and I've built more than 10 pc's >>_<< I just hope someone can help me out as I don't really have extra hardware lying around. ANY suggestions are helpful if you think you know the problem (please don't tell me to take it somewhere). I've even changed out the ide cables if I didn't mention that..
win xp home
1gb c xms
barton 2500+
a7n8x-deluxe rev2 nforce2
radeon 9700pro
I built this pc I believe a little over 2 years ago (don't quote me on that).
I originally had 1 drive.. western digital 8mb cache 7200rpm 80gb. One day in Everquest it was lagging hard and I found the driv ein PIO mode with ide errors in admin logs...turns out it was overheating and i fixed the problem with an increase of the fan speed fan embedded in my slide out hd bay.
long story short, my sister is dumb and cannot walk 5 feet to the bathroom to use her hairdryer, so my pc suffered numerous power cuts form the fuse blowing in the house, though it is behind sufficient power surge protector.
sometime during the pc's life I added a second drive, same build except 120gb.
first drive is partitioned into c/d/e for windows, cache files, programs. second drive is all anime. I started to get clicking and i assumed it was the first drive as it happened after a powerup from a blown fuse >_> I don't remember if this was before or after I bought the slave drive. 80 and 120 are on primary ide (yes i know wd drives are tempermental with jumper settings, they are correct for the setup).
Anyway, the clicking was once in a blue moon. I had a liteon dvd and a liteon cd burner on the secondary ide...however i ended up disconnecting them later on to install a dvd burner liteon on secondary master. I also pulled a 120 maxtor 8mb cache 7200rpm form a pc where it was the MASTER drive with windows installed. I installed it as a slave on secondary ide and completely wiped the drive, slow format..it now houses everything else I d/l.
my computer started to get worse, as one day (believe it was a week after the maxtor was installed) I started getting clicking while trying to load windows to the point where the system would lock up and not get into windows without a reset 3 or 4 times. Once I was in windows I had no problems except that many times firefox would light up my hd light for minutes randomly when loading a page but would get through. I thought maybe mbr was damaged, and i did try to fix mbr and eventually fixboot. None of them solved the problem. Recently Now I've gotten locked up in windows and in everquest from clicking. I decided to replace the main drive with a seagate 120gb 8mb cache 7200rpm.
When I installed it, I took out the wd 80gb and replaced it with the seagate and booted up and pt in my winxp cd. the computer hung at ide checking ~_~ a repower got me to loading windows on the cd...drivers laoded fine but it took extroirdinarly long to load "windows" I eventually got to partitioning screen and told it to make a primary on the new drive for it's entire size(minus the normal 8mb). I let it sti for an hour but I believe it froze as my hd ligt was red permanently the entire time...I gave up and powered down(which might of killed the drive..or maybe it already was dead).
Anyway, I tried a few more times, half the time the pc doesnt even see the new drive. I've tried every drive combonation. I'm currently back on the original 80gb wd and was able to get into windows. ii disconnected all other drives and when i plug in the seagate to primary ide slave, or secondary master, or secondary slave the pc won't load windows. I've even tried plugging in the drive while i was in windows, but no go.
I'm really starting to think, maybe the main drive isn't dead? or maybe it is dying and the new drive is dead AND one or both of my iide ports is/are damaged? The computer seems to have much more trouble getting into windows when I have drives on the 2nd ide (even optical).
I had to sell the parts to my 2nd pc for bills, so I don't have anything to swap really. i can't afford another motherboard to "see". What pisses me off is I will lose my $50 mail in rebate for this seagate since I bought it the last day of the MIR..if I return it, the new one will be a day past on the receipt.
I'm not the hacker elite pc artist
..but I can get through software problems easy, have programming and networking behind me and I've built more than 10 pc's >>_<< I just hope someone can help me out as I don't really have extra hardware lying around. ANY suggestions are helpful if you think you know the problem (please don't tell me to take it somewhere). I've even changed out the ide cables if I didn't mention that..