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Lugztaz

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AMD Athlon 64 3200
DFI NF4-DAGF mobo
x800 ATI video card


System was running fine for months. Up until I put XP on it for my friend. Now it likes to freez up. I have reason to believe it is the hard drive.

When i first went to install XP, it would freez at the Inspecting Screen. Then it would Freez in the formatting part. Then When loading windows. I kinda made it further each time. Now when i go to do updates, it downloads them, and when it starts to install them, bam, freez.

Right now idle temps are

Mobo 32C
Proc 29C
AUX 16C

Tho AIDA32 and other software is usually wrong about voltages, it says 1.54 for the 2.5 :( rest look ok

What do u guys think? Need mer info? Let me know...
 
I'd first check into the power supply. I've worked with a few crappy PSUs that caused all kinds of problems in windows from installation to just sitting idle.
If you have another, swap it out and see what happens.

Run Memtest86, as well as your manufacturers hard drive scanning utility to see if the drive is beginning to fail.
 
l337zax said:
I'd first check into the power supply. I've worked with a few crappy PSUs that caused all kinds of problems in windows from installation to just sitting idle.
If you have another, swap it out and see what happens.

Run Memtest86, as well as your manufacturers hard drive scanning utility to see if the drive is beginning to fail.
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Yea. i do need to check that, it is stock :( but i don't have a floppy in this house so i can't get the utility to check the disk :rolleyes:
 
Lugztaz said:
Yea. i do need to check that, it is stock :( but i don't have a floppy in this house so i can't get the utility to check the disk :rolleyes:
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If you download the ultimate boot CD to your PC, you can have all of those tools at your fingertips. And you don't need a floppy to run them!

LINKY
 
Lugztaz said:
thx
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No prob. That CD has saved my life many a times...

It's an excellent resource to keep in your PC troubleshooting toolbox if you have one.
 
Lugztaz said:
ok, well when i went to zero out the hdd, it froze...at 1% :rolleyes:
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lol.. good chance it is the hard drive...

But there is always a chance of it being the IDE or SATA controller to. Do you have a spare PCI controller that you could plug your HDD into to rule out that possibility?
 
l337zax said:
lol.. good chance it is the hard drive...

But there is always a chance of it being the IDE or SATA controller to. Do you have a spare PCI controller that you could plug your HDD into to rule out that possibility?
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neg :( i do have a controller in this PC tho.maybe try it on here?
 
Lugztaz said:
neg :( i do have a controller in this PC tho.maybe try it on here?
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That is always an option... you can throw it in the PC that does have one.. or at least a controller that you know works. From there, you can run the diagnostics on the drive with the manufacturer's HDD utilities. Or if you had another hard drive to try out in the PC that is having problem, you could possibly try and rule it out that way.
 
alright well i just happen to have 2 BRAND NEW hard drives sittin round, exact same harddrive as the dead one, just a 100gig stepup, will report back
 
New HDD in. Got windoz installed, drivers installed, first update threw windows. Restart again, freez. Restart, we just sittin at some WIndowz XP Screen, just relaxin,,,not doing anything...at all... :rolleyes:

what now? i don't really want to pay for a SATA controller to test this..what are your ideas guys? :cool:
 
If you had another PC to run the drive in, you could try to see what happens if you install windows on the drive, and do the updates.

I'm guessing that more than likely you may have a faulty SATA controller on your mobo. Have you run Memtest86 yet?
 
Ok, i tore everything down, back in. Reformatting

Install mobo drivers
Intall ATI drivers
Do updates

Anything wrong with that?
 
Installed windows, Installed the first set of drivers off my zip drive. Froze on restart :rolleyes:
 
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