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#1
11-19-2006, 09:31 PM
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Right... when using xp all would be going fine and then.... windows would just fall over and id have to reboot. Xp would keep going for days or hours and BAM it just dies on me.. all goes slow as hell and i mean so slow, if i press the start button on my keyboard it takes a good few mins for the start menu to popup!!! I belive this is a HDD problem... Right.. so, i boot into vista and do a virus scan from there (since xp keeps falling over) and it scaned the vista partition ok and then it scaned the xp partition.... BAM! now vista is falling over on me... so i tried a chkdsk on the xp partition but... no dice.. vista/dos also falls over on me! I downloaded PoweMax from maxtor to try and scan my drive with that for problems but when its trying to find maxtor drives that also just falls over one me  The event viewer in vista shows no problems... but the xp event viewer tells me that there was an error during a paging operation (Disk) ... witch means nothing to me... So i cant scan the drive in anyway, shape or form.... as long as i dont touch the xp partition things are fine but if i do theres a chance windows will just die on me.. Im out of ideas on things to try so i can find out whats wrong!        |
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#2
11-19-2006, 09:46 PM
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| Try ... I think it's called HDD life and go for the trial to get all the features that will help to see if the HD is dieing PS I don't know if it works with Vista so if you can try it on XP. Also if you need help finding/downloading the prog just ask. |
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11-19-2006, 09:59 PM
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| Ok... found the program and its installed... BUT it wont run... it says that there are not S.M.A.R.T Drives.... But mine is smart enabled.. |
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11-19-2006, 10:16 PM
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| NV heard of dat prob with it sorry. |
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11-19-2006, 10:17 PM
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| Its ok i got it working and it says all is good... |
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11-19-2006, 10:39 PM
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| Your symptoms are NOT characteristic of hard drive problems... next time it happens go to task manager and check you RAM and CPU usuage... sounds like either a memory hole, or some sort of malware etc. crabby |
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11-19-2006, 11:11 PM
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| Suppose it could be but ive scand my system quite a few times now to make sure theres no viruses etcetc on my pc.. Cant use hddlife really.. as my drive is SATA and is set as a RAID drive (AHCI Wont work for some reason :S ) so normaly that program wont tell me my hdd stats.. i have to set the drive up and IDE in the bios and connect it to one of the intel sata ports. but good to know my hdd is ok any who  Thanks for all the help and info all... and crabby... when this "problem" happens i cant get to the task manager and even if it was open at the time it dont refresh.. the whole system STOPS for a while then it will go again for a second or two then stop dead again.. |
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#8
11-19-2006, 11:56 PM
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| Ok, update... I think im getting this problems cus of a BORKED memory stick :S I got 2x512Mb and ONE of them is acting up... dam thing wont work on its own and wont work in dual channel mode...(chrashes at os menu) but works fine in single channel mode.... :'( i think im gonna cry!! my pc is falling apart on me, and im running out of blue tac!!!! |
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11-20-2006, 12:25 AM
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| LOL... i just got of the phone with kingston TS in the USA.. guy said it sound like theres a bad sector in one of the ram chips... he said to confirm put your ram under a lot of stress and if its a dead/dying ram stick youll get a BSOD... so i did just that.. but no dice.. system stayed nice and stable... with cpu usage at 100%,Page file at 99% (1.971Gb used of 2gb) and a few kb of ram free!!! Neeee my blue tac must be holding well then lol  God ol pc! |
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