Good evening all,
Significant system specs:
-Gigabyte 7AVXP
-Athlon 1.4
-Gigabyte Radeon 9700 128mb
-RAID0: 2x WD 40gb 7200rpm
-TBSC
-Windows XP SP1
This morning my computer crashed when I tried to access a folder [on my raid0], the system crashed... took a while to reboot (like 7 minutes), but it eventually did on its own.
Thought nothing of it, rebooted and went to bed. When I woke up, tried to access another folder, same crash. This time, chkdsk loaded up automatically but crashed at 30%. Rebooted and the same chkdsk crash. :Q
Skipping chkdsk caused an immediate crash as well.
Loading XP using "last known good config" got me to windows, but crashed upon any attempt at accessing a folder.
I tried running "chkdsk /r" from the repair console and it did the same: crashed midway. :disgust:
Sidenote: I've been getting those nasty RPC crashes but I didn't do anything about it because I didn't know it was a universal threat just a system error.
Now I turn to you, what do I do?
Is it a hardware problem? I tried starting the system with only the critical components. My hdd's aren't clicking either and the RAID shows up as working in POST.
Reinstall XP over my current installation (so I can at least get my data before reformatting)? It is raid0 after all... Any other suggestions not as radical?
Thanks in advance.
Significant system specs:
-Gigabyte 7AVXP
-Athlon 1.4
-Gigabyte Radeon 9700 128mb
-RAID0: 2x WD 40gb 7200rpm
-TBSC
-Windows XP SP1
This morning my computer crashed when I tried to access a folder [on my raid0], the system crashed... took a while to reboot (like 7 minutes), but it eventually did on its own.
Thought nothing of it, rebooted and went to bed. When I woke up, tried to access another folder, same crash. This time, chkdsk loaded up automatically but crashed at 30%. Rebooted and the same chkdsk crash. :Q
Skipping chkdsk caused an immediate crash as well.
Loading XP using "last known good config" got me to windows, but crashed upon any attempt at accessing a folder.
I tried running "chkdsk /r" from the repair console and it did the same: crashed midway. :disgust:
Sidenote: I've been getting those nasty RPC crashes but I didn't do anything about it because I didn't know it was a universal threat just a system error.
Now I turn to you, what do I do?
Is it a hardware problem? I tried starting the system with only the critical components. My hdd's aren't clicking either and the RAID shows up as working in POST.
Reinstall XP over my current installation (so I can at least get my data before reformatting)? It is raid0 after all... Any other suggestions not as radical?
Thanks in advance.