Hey everyone, I have a very frustrating problem.
My computer locks up a lot, but it's a freshly formatted 80GB hd, with a brand new install of Win XP pro.
I used to run a 20GB hd, because I thought my 80gb was dead, but I tried making it a slave one more time and it let me boot up, so I formatted it and went through hell trying to install windows xp on it...NTLDR missing errors, system disk errors, the whole 9 yards. I finally got it done, and I was praying that doing so would fix the locking up problems, but it didnt.
The 20 gig froze up a lot...mostly when I turned my PC on. I couldn't get on the internet because it would freeze, I couldn't mouse over video files or it would freeze, I couldn't open video files because it would freeze, and sometimes it would just freeze for no reason. I thought there was some horrible undetectable virus or spyware on it, so I tried using the 80 gig again and it worked.
I installed Opera on it, and it worked pretty good without freezing, then it froze up after I installed a few apps. I put VLC on my computer, and if I try to open it, my PC freezes.
You just don't know how unbelievably annoying this is. I bought a 3GHz P4 w/ HT & 64-bit support (2MB L2) and I'm looking for a new motherboard, and I'm going to hope that it'll fix it, but I'm not so sure it will. I'm also going to be buying a video card.
If you have ANY suggestions, please don't hesitate to give them to me.
And one quick question...the power connectors to my HD seem to be a little loose, but not really loose...they don't "click" when I push them in, like it does on my 350w power supply's connectors, but that one doesn't work (for some reason?). Could this be the problem?
Thanks,
Nate
My computer locks up a lot, but it's a freshly formatted 80GB hd, with a brand new install of Win XP pro.
I used to run a 20GB hd, because I thought my 80gb was dead, but I tried making it a slave one more time and it let me boot up, so I formatted it and went through hell trying to install windows xp on it...NTLDR missing errors, system disk errors, the whole 9 yards. I finally got it done, and I was praying that doing so would fix the locking up problems, but it didnt.
The 20 gig froze up a lot...mostly when I turned my PC on. I couldn't get on the internet because it would freeze, I couldn't mouse over video files or it would freeze, I couldn't open video files because it would freeze, and sometimes it would just freeze for no reason. I thought there was some horrible undetectable virus or spyware on it, so I tried using the 80 gig again and it worked.
I installed Opera on it, and it worked pretty good without freezing, then it froze up after I installed a few apps. I put VLC on my computer, and if I try to open it, my PC freezes.
You just don't know how unbelievably annoying this is. I bought a 3GHz P4 w/ HT & 64-bit support (2MB L2) and I'm looking for a new motherboard, and I'm going to hope that it'll fix it, but I'm not so sure it will. I'm also going to be buying a video card.
If you have ANY suggestions, please don't hesitate to give them to me.
And one quick question...the power connectors to my HD seem to be a little loose, but not really loose...they don't "click" when I push them in, like it does on my 350w power supply's connectors, but that one doesn't work (for some reason?). Could this be the problem?
Thanks,
Nate
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