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extremefire

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Built a system for my sister over two years ago now that worked fine until October of last year. She started getting bad sectors on her hard drive, preventing windows from loading. We went ahead and replaced the hard drive, but the problem has come back again.

So where should I start looking at for a problem??

I just think its odd for another hard drive to have a problem, just by chance. I have also ran a memtest and it came back fine. Specs below.

Athlon 64 2800+
Epox socket 754
Ultra 512mb ddr400
FX5700 128mb
Seagate 160GB
DVD+RW
DVD
Raidmax psu

Thanks.
 
extremefire said:
Built a system for my sister over two years ago now that worked fine until October of last year. She started getting bad sectors on her hard drive, preventing windows from loading. We went ahead and replaced the hard drive, but the problem has come back again.

So where should I start looking at for a problem??

I just think its odd for another hard drive to have a problem, just by chance. I have also ran a memtest and it came back fine. Specs below.

Athlon 64 2800+
Epox socket 754
Ultra 512mb ddr400
FX5700 128mb
Seagate 160GB
DVD+RW
DVD
Raidmax psu

Thanks.
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I think its time for some upgrades
 
It's the power supply.Raidmax power supplies are bad quality power supplies.

If you're looking for a replacement power supply, the I recommend this:
XClio 450BL ATX 450W Power Supply - $37.99

It's a pretty decent and cheap power supply.
 
I agree, that XClio is a solid CWT built unit. Since you ran it for over a year, I'd hope that the other parts of your computer weren't affected. Once the PSU has been replaced, run memtest overnight to insure your ram is ok. Then run prime95 blend tests for 24 hours to make sure your CPU is ok. Then run the seatools diagnostic program on the HDD, to make sure the HDD is ok.
 
I've been trying to talk her in to upgrading the computer, but I'll start with a better psu unit and see if that clears up the problem.
 
extremefire said:
I just think its odd for another hard drive to have a problem, just by chance.
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Put quite simply, a HDD is a super random part. It can go bad at anytime, I've seen them last 5 days to 5 or 6 years. It's totally random, and unavoidable. Your best chance is to back up your files.

Run a WD HDD test.
 
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