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pancake
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 Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 11:47 Post subject: is my hard disk dying? |
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Need a second opinion before i buy a new disk.
Keep getting BSOD's every now and again with various error messages and diffrent files.
O&O defrag says my file system is damaged, but running chkdsk with both /f /r commands dosent cure it or fix anything as far as it is concerned the disk is fine.
i also did a fresh windows install yesterday
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[sYn]
[Moderator] Elitist
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 11:58 Post subject: |
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How does the drive sound? any noises? Is it louder than usual?
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pancake
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 12:17 Post subject: |
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no more noise than usual.
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 12:24 Post subject: |
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It does sound like the drive is dying, but without any sounds its hard to be sure. I would suggest doing a *full* format (not just a quick) using a tool other than the windows installer and then reinstalling. See how that goes, it could be badly corrupt data on the drive that isnt being removed with a quick format..
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pancake
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 12:31 Post subject: |
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i did a full format using seagates disc wizard app as my drive is a seagate, the seagate disk drive maintennce software is not detecting any errors either???
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[sYn]
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| Posted: Wed, 2nd Aug 2006 12:42 Post subject: |
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I would consider that pretty stable proof that the drive is ok. I would uninstall OO Defrag and run a windows defrag.. then try reinstalling OO and doing a run.
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pancake
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 14:29 Post subject: |
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looks like it was my storage drive causing the problems, or maybe 2 sata ports as i swapped to the other pair and disconnected storage drive and it is working ok at the moment!
Edit: O&O defrag says the disk still has errors :/
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 18:35 Post subject: |
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What does Event Viewer show?
Did you change something before the problem? Like moving hardware around or changed your motherboard drivers?
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pancake
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 19:04 Post subject: |
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dont know , never thought to look at the time.
Yea i tried new motherboard drivers at first but after a while tried the old ones on a fresh install but they did exactly the same.
Seems to be ok now though
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pancake
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 19:12 Post subject: |
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lol spoke to soon, just crashed again.
event viewer shows nothing unusual.
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 19:13 Post subject: |
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Do yourself a favor and keep an eye on the Event Viewer>System log. Get to it through Control Panel>Admin Tools.
About a year ago I had some mysterious BSOD, turned out to be power supply/GFX card. Once I thought that was good I started getting file corruption. Specifically when I copied large amounts of data across two drivers. Swapped memory & changed the NVidia IDE drivers to resolve that one. That WHOLE month was tech. hell!
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 19:17 Post subject: |
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When it sits idol does it crash or are you doing something specific? Like playing a game?
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pancake
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 19:33 Post subject: |
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ok, just rebooted the pc and when it loaded windows it said it had recoverd from a serious error.
This time event viewer had a error which is
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Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 1003
Source: System Error
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: ER_KRNLCRASH_LOG
Message: Error code %1, parameter1 %2, parameter2 %3, parameter3 %4, parameter4 %5.
Explanation
A blue screen (Stop error) was reported. The message contains details about the error. A matching event with Event ID 1001 might also appear in the event log. This matching event displays information about the specific error that occurred.
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that wasnt from a BSOD though, unless it BSOD as it was shutting down and i never saw
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 20:44 Post subject: |
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Can you describe the system in detail. Make of system / which version of Windows etc.
Also, have you run Memtest86 to make sure you don't have some memory issues?
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 20:46 Post subject: |
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pancake
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| Posted: Thu, 3rd Aug 2006 21:13 Post subject: |
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yea i already looked at the ms link but didnt really help much.
system is
AMD opteron 146 @ 3g
1gb G skill LA DDR 600
DFI ultra D
Connect 3D X1800XT 512mb
120gb Seagate sata hdd
lg dvd writer
I am currently using the latest ETHO windows xp release with all patches up till july.
But i have also tried using my old windows xp disc which i have used without problem on this system from day 1 but it is stil the same.
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pancake
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| Posted: Mon, 7th Aug 2006 18:50 Post subject: |
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now my pc has started just dying and then rebooting.. no BSOD just goes black and then reboots.
I am starting to think about maybe a psu problem, any good ways to tell?
its a tagan 480w
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