8 Formats in 2 days - I'm super angry

DVad3r

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I can't believe this crap. I update my bios and my system turns into garbage. Crashes here and there, everywhere...I think I memorized my Win XP cd key. Tomorow I will have to format again because this system is already messed up, I dunno wtf is wrong.

I just hate troubleshooting....trying to get it all to work nicely...and I'm running out of ideas, which scares me...


/can't wait for the weekend
 

Nebben

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Uh... I think after about the 3rd format you may want to consider rethinking your strategy.

What's the situation?
 

Originally posted by: Nebben
Uh... I think after about the 3rd format you may want to consider rethinking your strategy.

What's the situation?

lol
 

DVad3r

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My system was 100 % stable prior to the bios update. I had the 1008 asus SLI bios. My system was overclocked but rock solid. I get the latest update, 1012 I believe, and all the sudden my windows won't load etc, eventually telling me to repair it because it's missing critical files. I install windows over my HD again, back stuff up to DVD's, and do a clean format. During the installation process, it freezes and dies, telling me it can't continue. This happened about 3 times...meanwhile I am in the bios playing around with settings, even clocking my computer to stock speeds to make sure nothing is hampering the installation. Finally like on the 4th try, I get windows installed, but it just kept freezing and rebooting...eventually leading to another major system crash. I went to my other PC, got my old bios and drivers etc...reloaded my old bios, changed all my settings to their original way...and reinstalled again. Everything was smooth, until I installed warcraft 3 TFT. Started a game online, 5-10 min in, the game starts to freeze and continue, freeze and continue, some wierd distortion crap...then suddenly it freezes and crashes my system...so I push the reset button and boooooom...missing DLL's, can't load windows...recovery doesnt work either...format reinstall again...now here I am...warcraft 3 is still crashing my system, magically getting into windows though. My sound card driver already got corrupted though as 80 % of the settings wont function at all like EAX etc...(its a sound blaster audigy 2 ZS plat) My network is also acting gay as everytime windows starts its accquiring a network address, even though my net works perfectly fine...

I dunno now what the problem is....is the hard drive messing up, is it the vid card since the problem seems to be in games....or is it some kind of memory leak? I have no clue...
 

GeekDrew

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I've probably formatted 5 or 6 times in the last couple of days... but those were on different partitions, for different operating systems, and rendered pointless tonight by a failed SATA controller.
 

YOyoYOhowsDAjello

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This is one reason I don't mess with things once I have them working.

Sorry to hear about your troubles.
 

DVad3r

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system specs

Asus SLI Deluxe mobo

3200 winny @ 2310 (10x231) auto voltages

1 gig OCZ pc4000 gold rev 2 ram (2x512) @ 2.5/4/4/10 4HT and 1T

160 gig SATA seagate 7200 HD

BFG 6800 GT OC pci-e vid card
 

DVad3r

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Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
This is one reason I don't mess with things once I have them working.

Sorry to hear about your troubles.

You have no clue...id give my soul to have my setup back the way it was...I dunno why I got so tempted...once I get this all working again....I'm never touching anything again

 

GeekDrew

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Originally posted by: DVad3r
My system was 100 % stable prior to the bios update. I had the 1008 asus SLI bios. My system was overclocked but rock solid. I get the latest update, 1012 I believe, and all the sudden my windows won't load etc, eventually telling me to repair it because it's missing critical files. I install windows over my HD again, back stuff up to DVD's, and do a clean format. During the installation process, it freezes and dies, telling me it can't continue. This happened about 3 times...meanwhile I am in the bios playing around with settings, even clocking my computer to stock speeds to make sure nothing is hampering the installation. Finally like on the 4th try, I get windows installed, but it just kept freezing and rebooting...eventually leading to another major system crash. I went to my other PC, got my old bios and drivers etc...reloaded my old bios, changed all my settings to their original way...and reinstalled again. Everything was smooth, until I installed warcraft 3 TFT. Started a game online, 5-10 min in, the game starts to freeze and continue, freeze and continue, some wierd distortion crap...then suddenly it freezes and crashes my system...so I push the reset button and boooooom...missing DLL's, can't load windows...recovery doesnt work either...format reinstall again...now here I am...warcraft 3 is still crashing my system, magically getting into windows though. My sound card driver already got corrupted though as 80 % of the settings wont function at all like EAX etc...(its a sound blaster audigy 2 ZS plat) My network is also acting gay as everytime windows starts its accquiring a network address, even though my net works perfectly fine...

I dunno now what the problem is....is the hard drive messing up, is it the vid card since the problem seems to be in games....or is it some kind of memory leak? I have no clue...

Ummmmm.... data corruption... failed installs...

It's possible that it's a RAM problem, though I wouldn't bet on it. If your system was working perfectly fine before, I'd suspect that something hosed the IDE/SATA bus on your motherboard, or your hard drive just coincidentally decided to start failing right then...
 

DVad3r

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wow I just reobooted my system only to be greeted with this error

Error Signature
szAppName : svchost.exe szAppVer : 0.0.0.0 szModName : unknown
szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000

C:\DOCUME~1\D-Vad3r\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4be3.dir00\svchost.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\D-Vad3r\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER4be3.dir00\appcompat.txt

I have no idea why...this is my system demolishing itself...so you think its the hard drive? How can I be sure?
 

Nocturnal

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How do you know your bios is causing the problem? Have you troubleshooted and checked to see if perhaps it's a PSU issue or a memory issue? Things go bad all the time and at random.
 

DVad3r

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Well its not the bios...it's definetely something else since I have my old bios back...it all started when I got the bios update though...and I don't think its coincidence that my system got mashed up at that very moment?
 

Orsorum

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One of my hard drives (with all my music files) just decided to start giving me problems in the last week or so. Now I have to spend some time this weekend diagnosing whether it's just a hard drive failure or something more complicated (psu, etc). :(
 

imported_Phil

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I'd say run Memtest (Google it) to check the RAM, and then the manufacturer's utilities to check the hard disk.

Good luck :thumbsup:
 

Cristatus

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I'd say: wrong forum. Put it in the Operating System forum, you might get MUCH more help there, though not as fast.
 

psiu

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I had mystery problems with mine...try pulling the sound card out, reseating the video card, reseating memory (and just using one stick to start), run memtest, and just one optical drive, preferably with a new ide cable.

Oh, swear at it and leave it disassembled for a week on the floor, that'll scare some sense into it.
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: Phil
I'd say run Memtest (Google it) to check the RAM, and then the manufacturer's utilities to check the hard disk.

Good luck :thumbsup:

memtest86 is king amoung all software