Before I go and spend money I don't have I'd like to get some feedback on a hardware problem.
One of my kid's PCs is built with an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard (SPECS) , an IDE Maxtor 200 gig hard drive and Windows 2000 Pro. The original build went fine (except for garbled audio from the DVD drive) and has worked flawlessly (1 month) up until Monday of this week. Then out of the blue I got a C: corruption message when trying to open Firefox as well as a bunch of other "C: Corrupt..." as I tried to run the recommended chkdsk. Nothing would run so I rebooted and was presented with a NTLDR is missing message. I formatted and reinstalled Win2K and all was well until the same thing happened last night, this time just opening a random folder in Explorer.
I thought possibly the DVD drive was borked and causing issues considering the original garbled audio but the same drive in another machine has no garbled audio. I stuck a known good DVDRW drive in the suspect machine and it too garbles. At this point I am figuring maybe the secondary IDE port where the DVD drive is connected was bad so I hooked both the hard drive and DVD drive up to the primary port but still there is garbling.
My thoughts now is maybe the IDE ports are bad but would this happen with both? Or maybe there is some issue with the onboard audio? Yet if memory serves if I rip a DVD to the hard drive and mount with Daemon Tools the audio is fine and any audio via Youtube, online games, websites, etc has never been garbled.
I may go and buy a simple IDE to SATA adapter (or two) this afternoon to see if circumventing the IDE ports all together solves the issue but I'd rather not spend $$ I don't have to if a whole new board may be in the near future...
Any and all feedback is appreciated
One of my kid's PCs is built with an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard (SPECS) , an IDE Maxtor 200 gig hard drive and Windows 2000 Pro. The original build went fine (except for garbled audio from the DVD drive) and has worked flawlessly (1 month) up until Monday of this week. Then out of the blue I got a C: corruption message when trying to open Firefox as well as a bunch of other "C: Corrupt..." as I tried to run the recommended chkdsk. Nothing would run so I rebooted and was presented with a NTLDR is missing message. I formatted and reinstalled Win2K and all was well until the same thing happened last night, this time just opening a random folder in Explorer.
I thought possibly the DVD drive was borked and causing issues considering the original garbled audio but the same drive in another machine has no garbled audio. I stuck a known good DVDRW drive in the suspect machine and it too garbles. At this point I am figuring maybe the secondary IDE port where the DVD drive is connected was bad so I hooked both the hard drive and DVD drive up to the primary port but still there is garbling.
My thoughts now is maybe the IDE ports are bad but would this happen with both? Or maybe there is some issue with the onboard audio? Yet if memory serves if I rip a DVD to the hard drive and mount with Daemon Tools the audio is fine and any audio via Youtube, online games, websites, etc has never been garbled.
I may go and buy a simple IDE to SATA adapter (or two) this afternoon to see if circumventing the IDE ports all together solves the issue but I'd rather not spend $$ I don't have to if a whole new board may be in the near future...
Any and all feedback is appreciated
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