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3rd crash in a week. wahts the deal?

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ericiscool

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the rundown:
I have a custom built with 3.2 p4, 1 gig ddr dual channel ram, asus motherboard, 120 gig hard drive, nvidia geforce 4 128 MB. with Windows Xp Pro service pack 2 installed.

the problem.
Day 1:
My machine was running just fine last night, but it was amazingly slow compared to normal, so i restarted and At first when I tried to restart my computer I got an "Error occured while reading disc... press ctrl+alt+del to restart".... after restarting and going through BIOS I could get to the Loading screen for Windows....but it stays there and never loads. I can get into Safe Mode, but dont know what to do from here.
-- temporarilly fixed --

Day 3:
Now randomly my computer crashes and blue screen tells me "disk read error occurred" and thats all, it wont start up in normal xp and i can get this thing into safe mode. is this a driver conflict? do i have a bad hdd? wahts the deal?
--reformatted and fixed fro another day--

Day 4:
ok after reformatting this thing was runnen smooth, and outta no where it starts running all slow again. computer crashed, gave me "disk read error occurred" i know i had correctly installed all the drivers. do i have a bad hard drive? if so why can i still run in safe mode?

 
ok just messen i knew where it was, took me a second tho. here is what i have:

AIM caused an error right before the crash:
"Windows cannot access the file C:\Program Files\AIM\AimRes.dll for one of the following reasons: there is a problem with the network connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers installed on this computer; or the disk is missing. Windows closed the program Aim Resources because of this error."

then i got one of these about every five seconds for like 10 seconds before i crashed:
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block.
(i have about 50 of that error)




 
Test your ram using memtest86

Test your hd with the utility from the companie's website

I would have done these before posting here.
 
It's probably a bad hard drive. I got the second error, or one that was really similar, a while back. Replacing the hard drive fixed it. You can try replacing the cable first, but backup NOW. Good luck.
 
k i purchaed a new hitachi hard drive today 80 gigs, and i go to partition and format as NTFS for XP setup, i partition with the hitachi cs, and windows gets to the installs creen please select which partition to put xp on, i selec the one i made, and it says this is not a valid partition for winodws xp. please partition and setup. so i delete that partiton, and i set up a new one with windows xp, it doesnt ask me waht file typei want or how to format, but it says it made a partition. and so i go to setup and again i get taht error. UGH! waht do i do? get w estern digital? are maybe jumpers set wrong? it reads if fine as master . any ideas?

another issue is that on boot the asus mobo says sometihjing about fast track...and that bios is not installed. this is a ASUS p4c800-E delux motherboard, and i got the manual and cant find anything about resetting the bios. i would like to know how to do that to fix this bios error its giving, it seems to work right past that error tho. so i dont know what it means. please help
 
When the pc first boots and is detecting the hard drives can you go to bios set up either by hitting delete or f2. It should say at the bottom of the page the key to hit to enter bios set up. Once there can you go to defaults and load them?
 
Originally posted by: bluestrobe
Test your ram using memtest86

Test your hd with the utility from the companie's website

I would have done these before posting here.
Click to expand...

That's why he is posting his questions to find out how to resolve issues.
 
yes i loaded defualts, it still gives the bios is not installed so i went to find a jumper to switch positions for the cmos, but unfortuatly im a noob and dont know where thar jumper is. and just resetting the defaults in bios didnt do anything. so any other suggestions? i mean it seems to me like its loading bios fine, but it still says that bios is not installed?
 
Do you still have your other drive hooked up as well? Or are you trying to do a clean install of windows with no other drives (meaning HDD). If this is the only drive try setting the jumper to Cable Select OR the MASTER 0 (which is the default). If you have another HDD drive and are trying copy the image to the Hitachi drive, then set the boot up drive to master, and the Hitachi drive to Slave 1.

Also you can clear CMOS by simply removing the battery for a few seconds and then reinstalling it.

Good Luck
 
ok ill try refreshing the cmos, remove battery while everything is off? that is probably a dumb question but it doesnt make sense that while its off removing the battery would do anything. and no i took the old drive out, and the hitachi is the only one in, set as MASTER 0. should i have it on cable select? im jsut trying to start clean with a bran new drive.
 
another thing is why cant windows xp pro install on that NTFS partition i made? i made it for the full size - 2 gigs or w/e for os junk, but if i partition it with windows it still wont install windows on it, telling me that its not a vaid windows partition? do i have the jumpers set wrong? accordin to the book they are set as MASTER 0 (default). any ideas on that one? that is my main prollem, im thinking that i get the bios is not loaded thing because i dont have a hdd with an os on it? is that the case?
 
so if i reset the cmos am i goin to have to re-set up everythig in the bios? or how does that work? and could it be that since i dont have a valid partition that is why it is giving that cannot load bios thing? i mean i can run bios so obviously it can load em.
 
i plugged in to western digitals! way to go western digital ! they work perfectly. i guess those hitachis just dont do the trick. thanks for help sfmedic
 
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