why does my computer hate me?

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Cheetoz

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I've had the computer in my sig. for I think 3 years or something. I'm on my second motherboard, since the chipset fan died on the first. I'm on my 2nd/3rd hard drive, since my first hdd died.

Anytime I would get anywhere near the inside of my computer, maybe clean some dust or something, the thing wouldn't work anymore. The hard drive wouldn't show up.

Well, I have Ubuntu on my IDE drive, and windows xp on my sata drive. Yesterday, I open my case to install my water cooling system. Then I power the computer back on... grub comes... windows xp loads.. but before it loads, it stays faded, before windows xp begins to load. I do something, and now grub says it cannot find the hard drive. http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00002hc3.jpg

Ok, whatever, let me boot Ubuntu. Nope. Doesn't want to work either. I mean, it's on a whole different physical drive. It says stuck on this window. http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00003ku1.jpg And then runinng ubuntu on that recovery mode: http://img517.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00001ac5.jpg

Now I'm on knoppix on that computer. Yes yes, I'm hoping to build a new comp for christmas, but man this one has been such a pain.

Anybody have any ideas? When I plug in the SATA drive by itself I get http://img181.imageshack.us/my.php?image=00005nx4.jpg

The drive is connected, and all should be good. Could it be my computer killed another HDD? And I don't know how/why it affected the IDE drive. Maybe it corrupted that hdd for funs too.

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I have seen this quite a bit with some NF3 chipsets, but it could be bad power in your house as well.
 
It could be that power supply is killing your hard drives. That is what happened to me with my PC.
 
or it could be your OC is destroying your computer. A unstable OC can cause data corruption and loss very easily.
 
Thanks for the replies. My computer has been in default for a while, so I'm not sure if it would be caused by the OC. Is there a cheap way of finding out if its my PSU? Other than buying a new one and waiting to see if another hdd dies.

Thanks.
 
Hmm...

Well, yesterday I noticed the chipset fan stopped running, and i had to push it to get it going. I also broke an ATA connection trying to pull a plug out.

I tried to install windows xp on my deathstar hdd but when using the serialle to sata converter thing, Windows XP doesn't find the drive. Yes, I loaded the drivers of the floppy. I have no idea what to do. If I connect my hdd's to the ATA, I can't use my cd drive, and therefore cant reinstall any OS. If I use SATA, it doesn't seem to be working.

Could the dead fan caused my northbridge to kinda die, and so my SATA doesn't work? Or is sata on the south bridge? I dunno., but I think it could be the sata connections not working, instead of my HDD being dead.

I wish I had another computer to test the hdd.
 
ok. now I USED to be able to use knoppix.

After rebooting my computer after it froze, my cd drive loses power after like 20 seconds.

I put in the knoppix cd, and the knoppix menu starts up. Then it begins to read from the cd drive. After a like 30 seconds, it says it cannot find the filesystem. I/O error. And if I try to eject the cd, it doesn't work, as if it stopped receiving power, but If i play around with the power cord in the back, it begins working again.

So, I tried to repeat the thing again, but when it froze, I just hard shutoff and restarted the computer, and the cd drive worked fine again at boot up without touching it.

I have no idea whats up.
 
hmm, none of my hard drives are being detected anymore. So I guess it is my PSU thats dying out.
 
Cheetoz said:
hmm, none of my hard drives are being detected anymore. So I guess it is my PSU thats dying out.
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either that or your motherboard. PSU is easiest to swap out.
 
Well, my PATA drive can be detected, but UBUNTU still can't load.

And, since I have two cd drives, I noticed that if I put knoppix in drive A, the power of the drive A wouldn't work, but the other, drive B, would work fine. But if the cd is loaded on drive B, drive A freezes.

So it's that once the cd drive consumes more power to make the cd spin, it stops working. And once my HDD starts loading, it stops working, therefore my PSU dieing out?

( I really don't wanna waste money on a PSU and then it being my mobo. I had RMA'd my old mobo like a month ago and was given this one)
 
2nd motherboard because of a failed chipset fan? Ouch.

And yet I guessed it was the ABIT NF7/IC7 series. I had the SAME problem.

Luckily I searhced and discovered there IS a fix. If you take the fan from a VGA cooler, I belive the Iceberg 2, the small fan should line up with the screw holes on your heatsink. That's what I heard at least. Mine didn't, so I superglued the fan down and it's still going steady this day at 6290 RPM.

This may be it here, but I thought the name was Iceberg 2. That fan may work, I'd suggest googling it.

EDIT: My fan was dead for a while and my motherboard (IC7-G) still worked. I replaced it mainly for peace of mind, although I imagine it could have damaged something over time.
 
did you run memtest overnight with only cpu/mobo/ram/vidcard/psu on a cardboard box?
 
13 passes, 0 errors.

I left my pata hdd connected though, since memtest was on there.
 
bah. just wasted money on a psu for nothing. I guess it is the motherboard. I could of practically built a new computer with all the money I've wasted already, lol.

Does anybody know a good cheap Socket A board that is still being sold? (thats not in an auction).

thanks.
 
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