Help with start-up problems!

[steimm]

Hi there every1!

First my system:

Vapochill
Abit NF7-S 2.0
AMD XP Barton 2500+ (11*200)
2*512 MB PC3200 TwinMos
ATi 9500Pro (305/305)
2*120GB SATA WD Caviar 7200rpm RAID-0
1*160 Maxtor IDE
WinXP SP1
ATi driver CAT 3.10
Nvidia nForce 3.13
The OS is on one partition of the RAID-0 array

Before my last reinstall (just a couple of weeks ago) I did get ALOT of BSOD's with BAD_POOL_DATA and after the reinstall I don't get BSOD's any more but I have got other problems.
The system is rock stable - when it is running - BUT when I "cold start" the system I have really big problems. The first boot hangs when the WinXP logo shows, after that I reboot and I get the menu with all the startup-choices (safe-mode etc). If I choose to start in safe-mode (or any other mode) the system hangs. But after like 10 tries then the system starts and I don't get this.
Is it anyone here that have any suggestion/solution for me?


The system has been up for more than 200 hrs now with a lot of load (gaming mostly) and it is solid as a rock but if I leave the puter off for a while (like hrs - it was a while since last turn off because it is easier to leave it on and be sure of that it works...) then I get the problem mentioned above.

Best rgrds!

/steimm

 

[Fern]

Here's a bump for ya

 

[fredtam]

Hard drive. or unstable OC.

 

[johnjkr1]

If you were really bored you could run the full WD and Maxtor hard drive diagnostics...make sure they aren't causing the problem....also, I noticed you didnt list your power supply, it should be a quality one to handle all those drives

 

[Wigwam]

sounds like a psu problem

 

[steimm]

thx for the replies!

the PSU is a Enermax 651P-VE (550W) so I think that's quite a good one.

I have run the "long" version of CHKDSK and it found a bad cluster, so it might be that - or?
Is Windows so smart that the cluster is no longer used or do I have to do anything else to make sure that cluster isn't going to be used any more?

/steimm

 

[Wigwam]

to my limited knowledge, bad clusters are "dealt with" by chkdsk once identified and no longer used....