- May 26, 2002
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Hey everyone, so I tried for a really long time to fix this for myself and I think its time for me to give up and come here for advice. After running quite well for a year my system suddenly hit a pretty strange error. When I boot into windows most of the time during the boot up process or briefly after the system turns on a blue screen will quickly come up and my computer will restart. On my last mobo my lan had failed me and I guessed that it was a problem with my sata ports. I lowered my OC, reinstalled again, and played with the SATA config but the problem kept recurring. I just set up a new gigabyte DS3L which was terrific for the past few days and the problem never occurred. Now however, it's having the same error. It's to the point now where I can't even get into windows safe mode without it occurring.
Another thing to add- I bought a new 500 gb hard drive and installed windows on it for my new setup. My old primary hard drive with all of its old existing data from the previous installation is being used as a secondary drive. Could this possibly be a virus caused by that? Also, I have the 500 gb with a single 120 gb ntfs partition so I could later install another OS on it. For some reason though, I can't shake the feeling that this is hardware based.
Here's the specs of my setup-
Gigabyte DS3L
E4300 (had it clocked at 2.8-3, but hadn't had a problem w/ this setting before)
2x1 Patriot extreme performance DDR2 (PC-5200)
Galaxy 8800GT
Enermax 485W Noisetaker (too little?)
Samsung 500gb Sata 2, Maxtor 500 gb sata 2, seagate 200 gb ATA
Creative x-fi (had the caps on this modded w/ some funky electric paper on it to prevent the jitter from the computer).
a few 120mm fans inside a P180
Another thing to add- I bought a new 500 gb hard drive and installed windows on it for my new setup. My old primary hard drive with all of its old existing data from the previous installation is being used as a secondary drive. Could this possibly be a virus caused by that? Also, I have the 500 gb with a single 120 gb ntfs partition so I could later install another OS on it. For some reason though, I can't shake the feeling that this is hardware based.
Here's the specs of my setup-
Gigabyte DS3L
E4300 (had it clocked at 2.8-3, but hadn't had a problem w/ this setting before)
2x1 Patriot extreme performance DDR2 (PC-5200)
Galaxy 8800GT
Enermax 485W Noisetaker (too little?)
Samsung 500gb Sata 2, Maxtor 500 gb sata 2, seagate 200 gb ATA
Creative x-fi (had the caps on this modded w/ some funky electric paper on it to prevent the jitter from the computer).
a few 120mm fans inside a P180