- Apr 2, 2003
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For awhile windows randomly crashed and on the reboot my master HD would show as "none" in the bootup screen. If I turned the computer OFF and on, it would re-show up and boot just fine.
I thought it was an HD issue, friend said mobo... So he bought me a new mobo.
Worked fine for a week, then did it again.
Did a full zero-format on both 80gb's, put fresh windows on, worked fine for the past two weeks... Now it's doing the same thing all over again.
The crashes also seem to happen when I try to do too much. Just firefox+aim doesn't crash (at least for a long while). Firefox, aim, irc, and WASTE all running usually causes a quick crash. Don't even get me started on trying to play games.
I've run tests on both HD's using the windows utilites as well as all of WD's utilities, both in windows and in DOS mode. Results were always completely positive, no bad sectors, nothing....
Help?
edit 1---
Specs:
xp 2700
1st mobo: ECS k7vta3+
2nd mobo: MSIK7N2
2 WD 80gb 8mb cache (ide)
1 WD 160gb (SATA)
512mb
nVidia FX-5200
Windows XP
edit 2 - "ok, memtest ran for 5 hours with 0 errors..."
edit 3 - new stick of 1gb corsair, still crashes.
I thought it was an HD issue, friend said mobo... So he bought me a new mobo.
Worked fine for a week, then did it again.
Did a full zero-format on both 80gb's, put fresh windows on, worked fine for the past two weeks... Now it's doing the same thing all over again.
The crashes also seem to happen when I try to do too much. Just firefox+aim doesn't crash (at least for a long while). Firefox, aim, irc, and WASTE all running usually causes a quick crash. Don't even get me started on trying to play games.
I've run tests on both HD's using the windows utilites as well as all of WD's utilities, both in windows and in DOS mode. Results were always completely positive, no bad sectors, nothing....
Help?
edit 1---
Specs:
xp 2700
1st mobo: ECS k7vta3+
2nd mobo: MSIK7N2
2 WD 80gb 8mb cache (ide)
1 WD 160gb (SATA)
512mb
nVidia FX-5200
Windows XP
edit 2 - "ok, memtest ran for 5 hours with 0 errors..."
edit 3 - new stick of 1gb corsair, still crashes.