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02-16-2008, 06:57 PM
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Lost on what to try next: trouble with new build
Built my 3rd computer about a week and a half ago. Specs are:
GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 2x Crucial Ballistix 1GB SDRAM DDR2 1066 Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA GECUBE Radeon HD 3850 Power supply is a 400W Sparkle that I just bought about 3 weeks ago. Anyway, put together, everything is fine. Installed WinXP, all my normal apps and games (WoW). Everything appears fine for about 2-3 days, then I start having problems - Windows crashes, then BIOS scanning image on hard drive, etc. I run memtest and one of the sticks appears fails lots of tests, so i take that one out. Leave other one in for now. Getting errors in WoW about corrupted files. Run chkdsk and it says there are file system errors. Run chkdsk /f from a reboot and it says it fixes things then reboots, but chkdsk subsequent to that still says there are errors. Then Windows eventually won't boot at all. I figure something got hosed and reinstall. Everything again is ok for 2-3 days. Now I start having problems again: computer reboots when I alt-tab out of a full screen app (such as World of Warcraft). I run chkdsk again; errors in file system again. I run memtest on my 1 RAM stick (waiting to RMA the other), it checks out fine. I download SeaTools for DOS to boot and check HDD. It finds errors in the long test, and says it fixes them, but when I quit and boot into windows, chkdsk still says there are file system errors. WoW still reboots at weird times, such as when I alt-tab,etc. I'm at my wits end and quickly approaching the 30 day limit to RMA stuff. Anyone have any advice on what or how to check various things? Anyone have any ideas on what could be causing my problems? Thanks in advance for any help. |
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02-16-2008, 07:01 PM
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Well you already said you had one bad ram stick, and a bad hard drive. RMA both of them. That could lead to all the problems you described.
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02-16-2008, 07:09 PM
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Well I didn't know if the errors were saying the HDD was bad, I guess that;s what I was asking. The bad RAM wasn't in the machine the 2nd time I started experiencing problems.
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02-16-2008, 07:14 PM
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If seatools found errors, I would rma it.
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02-16-2008, 08:31 PM
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RMA the drive and RAM.
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