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MillionaireNextDoor

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Recently, I have had saved word and excel files become corrupt and useless, mp3 begin overlapping and overwriting each other, and what not.

I've checked for viruses; none found, defragged, changed the memory, reformatted, chkdsk. What's going on?

Not a heat issue.

A7N8X-Deluxe
AMD 2600+ @ 3200+
1gb OCZ PC3200
Western Digital HDs
 
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Originally posted by: MillionaireNextDoor
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Answer mechBgon, then try new IDE cables. ;)
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160gb Western Digital 8mb cache

Hmm maybe new IDE cables (I have rounded ones)
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What OS? What Service Pack level?

If you are running W2K, have you installed the W2K and AMD XP CPU "LargePageMinimum.reg" patch?
You need SP3 or SP4, and some registry entries, to properly be able to use 48-bit LBA support. Your BIOS should support it as well.
The Hibernate feature may have the same bug with > 128GiB HDs that XP does, I don't know.

If you are running XP, make sure to disable "Large System Cache".
You need SP1 to order to properly use 48-bit LBA support. Your BIOS should support it as well.
The Hibernate feature has a bug in it, that can corrupt data if using > 128GiB HDs.

Personally, I suspect something is going on with the 48-bit LBA support, and that something is "wrapping around" the disk geometry at the 128GiB mark. I could be wrong though. That's the only thing that I can think of, that would cause "overlapping" of file data. Otherwise I would suggest bad RAM, or weak/bad PSU, as corrupting data.

Maybe a screwy partitioning layout too - what program did you use to create your partitions? What sizes are they?
 
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Winxp pro SP1
Large system cache disabled
Hibernation not enabled

I already changed out the ram, to no effect. My new 420w PSU is coming next week to replace my 350w so I'll see how that goes. I used Winxp pro's partitioning, I have:

partitions:
20gb - system
180gb - archives
200gb - archives
160gb - archives

The 20gb + 180gb are in one 200gb hard drive
 
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Is your problem only with excel/word files and mp3s? or are you noticing it with other files too? If its just those two types of files I'd be looking for a virus or something that maybe targets those files types (though you did that).

If its more widespread then that then Its probably physically wrong with the drive. There are any number of reasons this could happen: i.e. bad IDE cables; bad hard disk controller; damaged servo pattern; corrupt partitions; a minor head crash etc.....

questions: HOw do you have the drives set up on your IDE channels? Do you have the 200 (20/180) gig on one channel and the 200GB and 160GB archive drives set up on the other? If you have your system disk and one of your archive drives running on the same channel, are you noticing the same problem on the archive disk as the system disk?
 
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It's a problem with almost every archive file. mp3s, videos, pictures, word, excel, exe files, etc.

I'm thinking it could be the rounded IDE cables; going to test it today

My 3 drives are set up as master/slave, master, connected to a pci ide contoller card. master/slave consist of 20gb,180gb and 200gb and the master consist of 160gb partitions
 
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Changing the IDE cables didn't work. Maybe a worm? I just got an email today saying I sent a message "re: hello" and it had a worm in it. I never sent such message. Funny thing is, Norton doesn't see it. Maybe mcafee?
 
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