Desk broke and now I think something is wrong with my comp

[fustercluck]

My desk finally broke earlier and there was a huge cluster*uck of glass shards and wires everywhere. I don't think my PC case/computer got damaged in the process (though my foot wasn't so lucky), but I had to unmangle all the wires and put them back where they belong. Somewhere in that process of moving everything put back in place, something must not of gone right. No major computer problems luckily (and my new monitor looks to be fine as well, very luckily), but there are noticeable differences. Little stutters here and there, things taking longer to load, windows media player kept giving me some error about storage problems or something...hell I forgot.

Sorry I'm not much help, I'm tired and heading to bed. I want to do a little checkup on my computer tomorrow so I was hoping people would just give me ideas of what to check out or what programs to run or whatever. Guess I could run a defrag while I'm watching football pretty much all day tomorrow - Speaking of which, I haven't done that in forever and forgot how to do it. What's the traditional way of defragging and is there a program out there that will make it easier/faster? I remember it being kind of a pain to do one drive at a time, then having to select the next one, and the next one, etc. Would like it if it just defragged specified drives in a row, one after another, without me having to pay much attention to it.

Thanks for reading.

edit: my comp IS screwed up, read follow up post.

 

[oynaz]

Check your HDD for bad sectors

 

[jackschmittusa]

Re-seat all of the cards. Check all internal cables.

 

[fustercluck]

Something is definitely wrong. I booted up my computer a little bit ago for the first time today and to my surprise it ran checkdisk right off the bat, I didn't choose to do that. It said one of the disks needed to be checked for consistancy, every thing it found was "Unreadable", my computer finally booted up, and windows then let me know that I have corrupt files. Bad news =/

I'm really surprised my desk breaking affected my computer like this, since my PC case doesn't use my desk at all (it's on the ground about a foot away from the desk) and all that seemed to happen was it got some glass shards inside it (side panel was open) but all shards were at the bottom and I cleaned it out. Maybe something did fall on it though and I didn't notice. I didn't feel anything fall on my foot either but it was bleeding from a few little cuts and it turns out somehow a blood vessel was broken. It all broke down so fast and crap went flying everywhere, so maybe something did shock my comp pretty good.

I just tried running a virus scan since my computer wasn't doing anything, and the virus scan froze at 6%.

Hopefully it's all fixable. Looking for more suggestions what to do next, back to football for now

 

[fustercluck]

bumparoo. Computer seemed to run ok all day today, but I wasn't doing much, was watching TV most of the day. Still looking for ideas on what to check.

The scan I mentioned in my previous post finished and didn't find anything too weird, I don't think. Only warning it gave were the following:

C:\hiberfil.sys
[WARNING] The file could not be opened!
C:\pagefile.sys
[WARNING] The file could not be opened!
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\QTJavaNative.dll
[WARNING] The file could not be read!
C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$\KB899589\spmsg.dll
[WARNING] The file could not be read!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\certmgr.dll
[WARNING] The file could not be read!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\d3dx9_24.dll
[WARNING] The file could not be opened!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\help.exe
[WARNING] The file could not be read!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ipxmontr.dll
[WARNING] The file could not be read!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\dtscsi.sys
[WARNING] The file could not be opened!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\sptd.sys
[WARNING] The file could not be opened!
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\sptd6269.sys
[WARNING] The file could not be opened!

That's probably somewhat normal I imagine.

 

[rip]

call a priest lol....sorry, I'm watching the excorsist on amc and i couldn't resist.

 

[patentman]

Was the computer on the desk and running when the desk fell? Could be that the head got a bit screwed up when the comp hit the floor. Happens quite a bit in laptops. IBM even develops a HDD head that automatically retrats when it detects that the computer is falling to prevent this.

Solution? Backup and reformat, assuming its not a physical problem.

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: rip
call a priest lol....sorry, I'm watching the excorsist on amc and i couldn't resist.

Heh...ok...

 

[fustercluck]

Still not sure what the heck happened, it really seems like something was damaged though, not dramatically damaged, but damaged enough where I can tell something definitely happened. Is there a good 'computer doctor' program that will check for numerous problems? That might help.

 

[oynaz]

I still suspect your HDD. Get the diagnostics tool from the HDD manufacturer's webpage. They are free, and usually very good.

 

[fustercluck]

Is there a program that will check all my HDDs for bad sectors regardless of brand? Might be hard to find a program for each individual brand of HDDs that I have installed.

edit: nevermind any of that, I got a tool from Maxtor's webiste since I figured it was my maxtor drive that was bad. I was right, the program I ran (in dos) verified the hard drive is failing and I'll need to RMA it, this is going to be a gigantic pain in the ass, because Windows is on that drive, along with a lot of other important things. I have space to back everything up at least, but it'll be a huge pain to have to reinstall windows like it always is.

So that's a bummer. I don't think it had anything to do with my desk breaking though.

 

[oynaz]

At least you found the problem, and it could be much worse.

 

[Double Trouble]

Probably didn't have anything to do with the whole desk thing, but you never know. You might not have to reinstall everything either. A lot of times when the drive is "failing", you can still connect another hard drive to your system, and use something like "ghost" to copy everything over from the failing drive to the other. Then, take out the failing drive and use the copy to boot. You can do a repair of windows or sometimes just reinstall some devices to help clear up the issues.

Good luck!

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: tagej
Probably didn't have anything to do with the whole desk thing, but you never know. You might not have to reinstall everything either. A lot of times when the drive is "failing", you can still connect another hard drive to your system, and use something like "ghost" to copy everything over from the failing drive to the other. Then, take out the failing drive and use the copy to boot. You can do a repair of windows or sometimes just reinstall some devices to help clear up the issues.

Good luck!

I tried Acronis True Image, which people generally seem to like, but it wouldn't back anything up because of the bad sectors, said it 'Failed to read Data from the Disk". That's the whole reason I'm trying to backup the drives though...so, would ghost let me back it up maybe?

 

[Double Trouble]

Originally posted by: Adaman

Originally posted by: tagej
Probably didn't have anything to do with the whole desk thing, but you never know. You might not have to reinstall everything either. A lot of times when the drive is "failing", you can still connect another hard drive to your system, and use something like "ghost" to copy everything over from the failing drive to the other. Then, take out the failing drive and use the copy to boot. You can do a repair of windows or sometimes just reinstall some devices to help clear up the issues.

Good luck!

I tried Acronis True Image, which people generally seem to like, but it wouldn't back anything up because of the bad sectors, said it 'Failed to read Data from the Disk". That's the whole reason I'm trying to backup the drives though...so, would ghost let me back it up maybe?

You can try Ghost, but if there are failing sectors and things like that, the program I'd try is Spinrite -- if you can find it. It's an old dos-based app, but it seems to do a very good job fixing issues like that, identifying bad sectors and moving data to recoverable sectors.

 

[fustercluck]

Originally posted by: tagej

Originally posted by: Adaman

Originally posted by: tagej
Probably didn't have anything to do with the whole desk thing, but you never know. You might not have to reinstall everything either. A lot of times when the drive is "failing", you can still connect another hard drive to your system, and use something like "ghost" to copy everything over from the failing drive to the other. Then, take out the failing drive and use the copy to boot. You can do a repair of windows or sometimes just reinstall some devices to help clear up the issues.

Good luck!

I tried Acronis True Image, which people generally seem to like, but it wouldn't back anything up because of the bad sectors, said it 'Failed to read Data from the Disk". That's the whole reason I'm trying to backup the drives though...so, would ghost let me back it up maybe?

You can try Ghost, but if there are failing sectors and things like that, the program I'd try is Spinrite -- if you can find it. It's an old dos-based app, but it seems to do a very good job fixing issues like that, identifying bad sectors and moving data to recoverable sectors.

Someone else recommended Spinrite also, but i'm afraid to use it because it says "Any existing operating system on this drive will be lost". So it looks like it would repair the bad sectors, but I don't want to have to reinstall XP afterward. I might give it a try anyways.