I swear to christ I have no luck with computer...

[GoingUp]

so out of the blue all 5 partitions on my secondary HD get their master file tables corrupted.

i replace the drive and decide maybe I should install a clean version of windows. now I have a partition on my main HD that is corrupted... happened as soon as I got into windows after the reinstall.

if I didnt have bad luck, id have no luck at all.

any guesses to what the hell could be going on with my drives?

i just got some new ATA 133 cables for the sucks too 🙁

 

[mechBgon]

How about hit Quote and fill in this, including the security/OS stuffs:

• CORE HARDWARE
  • Power supply Antec TruePower 430
  • Motherboard Asus K8N-E Deluxe
    • Revision 1.03
    • BIOS 1005
  • CPU Athlon64 3000+
    • Core 130nm Clawhammer
  • Memory (2) 512MB Corsair XMS 3200C2 modules
    • Voltage Manually set to 2.7 volts
    • Timings AUTO, results in 2-3-2-6 @ 200MHz
• CARDS
  • Primary video card ATI Radeon 9800Pro AGP 8x
  • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
  • PCI slot #2 empty
  • PCI slot #3 LeadTek Winfast TV/FM tuner card
  • PCI slot #4 Creative Audigy 2 ZS
  • PCI slot #5 LSI Logic Ultra160 SCSI
  • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
• DRIVES
  • Boot drive 160GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Serial ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 SATA controller
    • Jumper setting not applicable (SATA)
  • Additional hard drive 40GB Seagate 7200.7
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, primary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Additional hard drive 18GB Seagate Cheetah 15k.3
    • Interface SCSI
    • Controller hosting this drive LSI Logic U160 card
    • Jumper setting SCSI ID 01
  • Optical drive #1 NEC 3500A DVD burner
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Master
  • Optical drive #2 Lite-On combo DVD-ROM/CD-RW
    • Interface Parallel ATA
    • Controller hosting this drive nForce3 standard ATA controller, secondary channel
    • Jumper setting Slave
• OS AND SECURITY
  • Operating System WindowsXP Professional
  • Service Pack SP2
  • Internet connection Cable
  • Hardware firewall Netgear RP614 router
  • Are there other computers sharing my Internet connection No
  • Software firewall WindowsXP firewall
  • Antivirus Norton Antivirus 2004

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
How about hit Quote and fill in this, including the security/OS stuffs:

• CORE HARDWARE
  • Power supply Antec TruePower 400
  • Motherboard Abit NF7
    • Revision 2
    • BIOS Latest one
  • CPU Athlon barton 2500+
    • Core
      • Memory (2) 512MB crucial 3200 modules
        • Voltage system default
        • Timings AUTO,
    • CARDS
      • Primary video card BFG 6600 GT OC
      • PCI slot #1 (top) empty
      • PCI slot #2 empty
      • PCI slot #3 empty
      • PCI slot #4 empty
      • PCI slot #5 empty
      • PCI slot #6 (board only has five PCI slots)
    • DRIVES
      • Boot drive Maxtor 250gb 16mb cache
        • Interface Parallel ATA
        • Controller hosting this drive nForce2 pATA controller
          
        • Additional hard drive Maxtor 250gb 16mb cache
          • Interface Parallel ATA
          • Controller hosting this drive nForce2 pATA controller
            
            
            
        • OS AND SECURITY
          • Operating System WindowsXP Professional
          • Service Pack SP2
          • Internet connection Cable
          • Hardware firewall Netgear RP614 router
          • Are there other computers sharing my Internet connection No
          • Software firewall WindowsXP firewall
          • Antivirus Norton Antivirus 2004

• • • • 
        

 

[mechBgon]

First thing I'd do is go crank up the memory voltage to 2.6-2.7 volts instead of AUTO. That sort of jives with the HDD corruption symptoms.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
First thing I'd do is go crank up the memory voltage to 2.6-2.7 volts instead of AUTO. That sort of jives with the HDD corruption symptoms.

why? im pretty sure its at 2.7 right now, but why would a lower voltage cause that?

 

[mechBgon]

I think AUTO on an NF7-S is 2.5 volts. If your PC3200 is expecting 2.6 volts, then starving it may be the problem. And if your PSU or mobo are sagging the voltages a little, then 2.7V might be what gets the job done in real life. You can do some Memtest86 testing to see how it does under a basic no-load situation, perhaps.

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
I think AUTO on an NF7-S is 2.5 volts. If your PC3200 is expecting 2.6 volts, then starving it may be the problem. And if your PSU or mobo are sagging the voltages a little, then 2.7V might be what gets the job done in real life. You can do some Memtest86 testing to see how it does under a basic no-load situation, perhaps.

but how does that corrupt a hard drive?

 

[mechBgon]

Voltage-starved memory --> corrupted data --> which then is written to hard drive = goofed-up hard drive. That's my concept, anyway, I'm not an IC engineer or anything 🙂 Can you think of any other likely contributing factors, such as installing some new software that might've had a Trojan Horse in it, or someone visited and plugged their worm-infested laptop into your router, or ???

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Voltage-starved memory --> corrupted data --> which then is written to hard drive = goofed-up hard drive. That's my concept, anyway, I'm not an IC engineer or anything 🙂 Can you think of any other likely contributing factors, such as installing some new software that might've had a Trojan Horse in it, or someone visited and plugged their worm-infested laptop into your router, or ???

nope... i just shut my computer down one night.. turned it back on teh next day and BAM there was a dead HD.

i keep up to date all all of my patches, spyware and virus defs. system found nothing.

no idea...