I need help in windows 2000!

Kryotech

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Okay I just built this system about a month ago. It is
Amd Athlon T-Bird 1.4ghz
2 60gb hd's IBM 60gxp with Raid config 0 stripping
Epox 8k7a mobo
512mb of pc2100 crucial ram
visontek nvidia geforce 3 graphics card
sblive value sc in it now because my phillips accoustic sucked, didn't work right

that should be all you need to know. Okay the problem I'm having is alot of programs crash on me. Even IE or anything for that matter quite often. At first when i get the computer up and running and i mean after a format, It runs fine for a few days or about a week, then once i will get the blue screen of death, then I get that darn this program has generated errors and is being closed by windows. then that error becomes more frequent and more frequent until It happens every 3 or 4 minutes. Which means I cannot run any programs! And after it gets so bad After i restart my computer My computer will not boot into windows and i will get an error saying inaccesable boot drive. Which forces me to format, but the last time i tried to do that I had all kinds of issues and it would not format properly. So after this happend I got fed up with trying to fix it myself and i took it to a computer tech store, paid them to fix it. they put windows back in for me and now 3 days later, its all happening to me again! Man this sucks it's like i waisted my money for them to fix it in the first place! But when this thing goes down, for the life of me I can't figue out how to fix it, let alone fix this problem for good. I just custom built this machine and spent some big money on it! Please somone help me! Also once in a while while the computer is running a program If i don't get the generated errors thing I will get a blue screen of death that says something about a page fault in a non writeable area I think. Anyways I don't want this thing to go under again. because when it did it after the 1st week of this being built, It has been out for 3 weeks. and just about 3 days ago i just got it back from the store and running again. Man will i be upset if it does this again!
NOTE: Every time i post some type of question in tech and troubleshooting i never get any responses! I don't want to be out another few weeks fumbling around with my new computer! I'm just hoping to avoid this problem all over again. Thanks. :)
 

Vegito

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1. Did you install VIA Drivers
2. Service pack 2 ?

Have you ever tried
W2K
VIA Driver
Service Pack
DirectX8
3DMarks 2001 loop for x hours

see if it crashes there..

Also try do it w/o anything but video card..
 

Kryotech

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Yep, have the drivers installed, I could try downloading 3dmark 2001 and checking it out with a loop, I also have a stability test program on my desktop which i dl today which i could leave running, they say to leave it running for 12 hours to test stability.
 

TruculentTucan

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you might check to see both HDDs are ok, that your motherboard is OK... if you have a bad mobo, you could have stuff being corrupted by it (happened to me!). Also check to see that transfer to HDDs is in LBA mode (maybe different for raid), check to see you are using Ultra cables.. check to see your haven't o/ced your processor or memory. Both of these things really really screw things up a lot. I was installing 2k on a duron 650 @ 700 and it couldn't load files off the cd, etc..

Good Luck!