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HD light freeze...

J

jdreher

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I just put together a new system and everything seems to be working fine...except every now and then the hard drive disk access light on the case will come on and stay on and the screen will freeze. It doesn't sound like the hard drive is trying to access anything when this happens, either. I'm running an EPoX 8KHA+, XP 1900+ w/ 512MB RAM, DVD drive, AIW 8500DV, IDM 60GXP hard drive, floppy and network card...the power supply is 350W (Antec) so I don't think that should be the problem...the temperature is also holding stable around 40 for the CPU and 30 for the system. Any ideas what may be casuing the lock ups?

Thanks,
Jon
 
Check the HD for problems, this doesn't look to be a 'pure' hardware problem. Probably you have some lost chains or some corrupt file that is messing up with the OS when it's accessed.
 
I checked the drive with IBM's software to do that and it's showing up as healthy. This problem happened when I first installed software on the drive and at first I thought it was a driver conflict with something I shouldn't have installed...so I just reformatted the drive and re-installed everything...I still get the same problem though. Check out this thread for a more detailed description of my problem so far and what I've done about it.

Thanks.
 
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