Random freezes, bsod, hard drive failure

zil

Well a you can probably guess from the title I have a problem with my pc. I've tried everything I can think of and am at my wits end as to what is happening. Hopefully some of you fine folks can help me out.

My pc is custom built with a xp3500+, 1gig of ram and a 6800gt running on a dfi lanparty nf4.

The problem originally manifested itself with slow boot times. After a while my pc began to experience complete freezes. These would usually take place while i was trying access the hard drive. I ran severall differant hard drive checkers including spinrite and the manufacters own software and nothing could find any problems with the drives.

Whenever i tried to reboot after one of these freezes I always had problems. When i looked closely at my bios self check output at startup i noticed that the bios wasnt recognising any hard drives as connected. Around this time i also began to experience a few seeminlgy random bsods (however i think this may be related to another issue).

I checked my windows error reports and noted that there were numerous errors listed for one of my hard drives. So i decided to order a new one. While i was waiting for the hard drive to be shipped i ran several differant scans and discovered that my ram was running out of spec. I believe this was what was causing the bsod's and have changed the ram settings so they now pass memtest. I also kept checking the error reports. Just before my new hard drive arrived i noticed that my second hard drive had started generating errors. The chances of two hard drives failing at the same time and both still passing hard drive scans seems to be quite low and i confirmed that this was not the case as when i installed windows on my new hard drive i still experince random freezes and the bios refusing to recognise my hard drives.

At this point i began to think about what else could be causing these problems. I figured there might be a chance that might psu was beginning to run under spec and couldnt provide enough power. I plugged out all my case fans and other perhipials but to no avail.

At this point I can only think of two things that could be causing these problems. Either the psu is failing and cant provide sufficent power even with unessecary items unplugged, or my motherboard is dieing.

However i am by no means certain that these could be the only things causing my problem. I was hoping someone might have some suggestions as to how i could rule out other componants or confirm my suspicions as id rather not spend money on something that I have no gaurantee will fix my pc.

Any suggestions or help would be brilliant as I really am at my wits end.

Sir Random

Have you reset the CMOS?

If they're IDE drives:
You could try attaching the cable to the 2nd IDE port (where the optical drives are connected).

It could also be the IDE cable itself.

Anti

I had almost the exact same problem. What i had to do was a full reinstall Without ACPI support ( f6 during windows install ) This is a problem with the dfi nf4 mobos. especially the ut models. It has to do with the way the board handles power from the psu

I would reccomend going over and registering with www.dfi-street.com. You will get much better help there

G'luck

sunriser

HI all

Does anyone know anything about PDA'S i was thinking of getting my boyfreind one for xmas and havent a clue about them some advice would be really apprieciated.

Can you use secure website's on them and can you interact with these website's. :rolleyes:

Auvers

sunriser wrote:

HI all

Does anyone know anything about PDA'S i was thinking of getting my boyfreind one for xmas and havent a clue about them some advice would be really apprieciated.

You might get a better response if you post your question here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=411

Anti

Bloody post hijackers.....