JBG84

Hey All ,

Been having some recurring issues with my PC for the last few months now and I’m not quite sure about the diagnosis. Now, the problem:



Mid way through using the PC just doing a variety of simple task (non-gaming related) the PC will over a matter of seconds slowly start to lose functionality and come to a grinding frozen screen halt ! Upon restarting the PC Windows will not load. The only remedy is to use WinXP Repair Console to run a Scan Disk/Check Disk searching for and repairing errors found. On each occasion the HDD File System (NTFS ….. was just making a pun about the old FAT system in the header ) had scrambled and needed repair. Scandisk achieves this successfully and abra’cadabra … I have a working WinXP again !

The problem is it’s now happened about 3 times in 2 months (not including this mornings scramble which I have yet to repair…… am on the spare PC as I type).

I’ve run Seagates SeaTools diagnosis after the first NTFS crash which declared the HDD is in good working order (except for the scrambled NTFS offcourse).

I thought maybe the OS needed a clean so just yesterday I formatted my WinXP and this time installed newly purchased Windows 7 . Unfortunately this morning I’ve had a similar lockup/scramble



Could these problems be a tell-tale sign of a slowly dying HDD? (3 years old)

Or a slowly dying motherboard/ motherboard chipset ? (1.5 years old)

Or something different entirely


Cheers all

Update: Just repaired the latest crash on Win 7 this morning. Again it was a HDD File System f*ck up

GodofGrunts

Bad HDD firmware maybe?

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xdanisx

I'd say either a dying HDD or bad SATA ports on you mobo (I'm assuming you have SATA). I'd try switching the SATA chord that connects the HDD and mobo. I'd also connect that chord to a different port on the mobo. If that doesn't woek, there's probably something wrong with the HDD. Good luck.

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DDR2 dual channel 1066/1200 RAM is accepted here.

ZHoob2004

there is no "h" in cord but other than that it's pretty sound advice.

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J-vibe

I would say the hard drive needs a full format. When you were installing win7 you left the file system intact. There is a quick format, full format and leave file system intact so it inherited the problems from that xp install

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xdanisx

What'd you expect...

J-vibe had a good point about the format.

If all fails, HDD's have gone down a lot scince three years ago when you got your HDD.

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losttsol

Sure there is, this is a guitar forum right?

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GodofGrunts

This is false.

Source

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JBG84

Okay so the wave of opinion is saying HDD..... and Yes, it's a SATA-2.5 HDD (sorry, should have mentioned)

I'll try a different SATA port + a new SATA cable (may as well) and see how it goes first up.

(I'd like to keep everyone updated on finding a resolution to this peculiar problem, but odds are the HDD ain't gonna scramble again for a few weeks most likely so it just may be a while till a future progress update is all).

Thanks everyone for their post !