Hardware Issue?

[GaryShandling]

i was playing world of warcraft a few days ago when in game it started to get choppy, and started to pause frequently. i thought the cpu was overheating so i shut down the pc for a while, when i powered back on, i couldnt boot into desktop and couldnt get in through safe mode either.
"failed to load several win/system32/drivers"

i formatted and got into desktop, installed mobo drivers, graphics drivers e.t.c windows updates, anti virus. i reinstalled World of warcraft, but now im getting the same pauses, and the pc is making a seeking noise (buzzing) whenever i open menus and lags/pauses for a while. im also getting low frames per second and artifacts in game.

3.2ghz northwood
2 X 74gb raptors in raid 0
9800xt
abit ic7-max3
1gb 3200

after the format, it said raid 0 failed on bootup, rebooted itself and then raid 0 was "normal" but the actual raid 0 volume is only 50% of what its size should be, aswell as my IDE drive i use for back up is only 50% of its normal size. generally the whole pc is sluggish, and has become very loud, ive checked the temps they are fine. it was working perfectly before it crashed for 1 year. any solutions? thanks.

 

[GaryShandling]

??

 

[ionoxx]

I smell a failed drive on your RAID-0 and if you're using a WinXP with No service packs, you won't have 48-bit LBA enabled, so you can only see up to 138Gb on a single drive.

 

[GaryShandling]

i have winxp with sp2 and im seeing 78gb total which should be 148gb total.
the ide drive is also partially what it should be. if the raid failed why is the ide drive doing that? could it be a problem with the motherboard....

 

[GaryShandling]

bump, im getting major artifacts in games now aswell.

 

[GaryShandling]

ok, the pc shut itself off after a session of major artifacts.

please help.
raid drive still only showing 55% of total storage.

 

[hippotautamus]

Sounds like you either over or undervolted your IDE/SATA controller to me, though I'm no expert. It's also possible that your FAT tables are corrupted, which might explain the reduction in size for your drives.

 

[GaryShandling]

the sata controller is on default settings, the settings that it worked with before the problem. i dont understand what FAT tables are though.....

 

[GaryShandling]

?

 

[Mizuchi]

FAT = file allocation tables. It's the file format windows uses to store and give addresses to info, I believe.

Basically, everyone's saying that one of your hard disks is malfunctioning.


I've had a hard drive fail on me once, while running 2, not in RAID. Wasn't so bad... just unplugged the bad one. Now my single drive's full, so I'm thinking about trying to fix the other.

Sorry I couldn't help much more than that.

 

[stevty2889]

I would download the western digital diagnostics tools. It sounds like one of your drives is crapped out, however..if you have a raid 0 array, and one drive is bad..windows shouldn't be working at all..also, you didn't mention what you had for a power supply..that could be an issue as well since you seem to be having both hard drive and video card problems..

 

[GaryShandling]

i did a western digital drive diagnostics and it said my drive was normal it passed all the tests. my power supply is a zalman 400w noiseless. when i scroll with the mouse wheel it makes a buzzing noise, you think its the psu causing all these problems?

 

[stevty2889]

Have you tried deleting and re-creating your raid array?