I put together a computer for someone 2 years ago. It's been great until he just got hit with viruses. I reinstalled Win2k and have since been getting corruption errors after a period of time. I ran diags on the harddrive and it found bad sectors...I also read things about the motherboard having bad caps, and the Epox 8K7A I had in this PC had the start of some.
I replaced the systemboard with an IWILL KA266-R and moved everthing over. Same symptoms...it will run fine, then all of a sudden I would reboot and it says Something in the WINNT directory is corrupt. I run repair and it doesn't see the installation. I also replaced a harddrive with a reburb WD. Same symptoms. Still thought it could be the drive, so I bought another one...which turned out the company screwed me and sent me another refurb. I tried new cables, and removed everything. It's now just running with a different video card, ram in another slot, and harddrive hooked up. Any suggestions please? I was supposed to take this back to the guy tonight! Is it because I'm ghosting the drive from an older 2gb seagate? Something to do with the speeds or ghost maybe? Please help!
I replaced the systemboard with an IWILL KA266-R and moved everthing over. Same symptoms...it will run fine, then all of a sudden I would reboot and it says Something in the WINNT directory is corrupt. I run repair and it doesn't see the installation. I also replaced a harddrive with a reburb WD. Same symptoms. Still thought it could be the drive, so I bought another one...which turned out the company screwed me and sent me another refurb. I tried new cables, and removed everything. It's now just running with a different video card, ram in another slot, and harddrive hooked up. Any suggestions please? I was supposed to take this back to the guy tonight! Is it because I'm ghosting the drive from an older 2gb seagate? Something to do with the speeds or ghost maybe? Please help!