I've got an asus a8n-sli with a amd 64 3500 and 2 hardrives. My primary hardrive is a seagate 160 gig sata hardrive with 2 partitions and a copy of windows on one of the partitions and my second is a 40 gig maxtor ide hardrive which is set as a ide slave in the bios. I use the 40 gig primarily for media files ie. music and movies.
I was downloading onto the 40 gig drive and I get a machine_check_exception error with code 0x0000009c and my comp restarts. I have had this problem before and in the past they only way to get rid of it that I found was a clean installation of windows and to completely reformat my 40 gig hardrive, but even then I couldn't start windows without the windows cd in the drive. So I replaced the ntldr and ntdetect.com files, tried fixboot and fixmbr in the recovery console, my mb and cpu temps are low, I got a memory check program and checked my memory. I believe the problem is my 40 gig hardrive because if I open the drive or any programs loaded on the drive my computer freezes and I get the machine_check_exception error. The weird thing though is when I went to the recovery console it said that my installation of windows was on my D: drive which is the 40gig and in reallity it is on my C: partition on my 160 gig.
I can use any of the programs or files located on my 160 gig sata drive without any problems. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas of how I can fix this problem? Preferrably without losing all the files on the drive.
Lol I'm about ready to scrap the 40 and move on.
I was downloading onto the 40 gig drive and I get a machine_check_exception error with code 0x0000009c and my comp restarts. I have had this problem before and in the past they only way to get rid of it that I found was a clean installation of windows and to completely reformat my 40 gig hardrive, but even then I couldn't start windows without the windows cd in the drive. So I replaced the ntldr and ntdetect.com files, tried fixboot and fixmbr in the recovery console, my mb and cpu temps are low, I got a memory check program and checked my memory. I believe the problem is my 40 gig hardrive because if I open the drive or any programs loaded on the drive my computer freezes and I get the machine_check_exception error. The weird thing though is when I went to the recovery console it said that my installation of windows was on my D: drive which is the 40gig and in reallity it is on my C: partition on my 160 gig.
I can use any of the programs or files located on my 160 gig sata drive without any problems. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas of how I can fix this problem? Preferrably without losing all the files on the drive.
Lol I'm about ready to scrap the 40 and move on.
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