So I've got an aging system that is really on it's last legs - I'm sure that my motherboard is NOT in good working condition - it's a Gigabyte, based on the 865G, blah blah blah old news. When I use any form of IDE hard drive, the system slows to an absoloute crawl - I have no idea why. When I first got it it was fine, now it's not. So I bought a SATA hard drive and that fixed the problem.
But then, long story short, I had my PSU die on me a year or so ago (plugged a camera into a USB port, system crashed, smelled burning).
I replaced the PSU, to find that none of the boards USB ports worked anymore and the temp disply on my Antec P160 no longer worked (it has an LED read out which WAS kind of cool).
Now, a USB add-in card and a few months later I have a new and interesting problem:
My 200GB HDD is partitioned 3 ways, 20GB\70GB\~110GB (what ever's left) as OS\Games\Media respectively.
I boot my computer, and my OS drive displays 8GB free - a few hours later is shows 6GB free, later, 3GB free (see where this is going?) All the way down to every single bit of magnetic material on the drive to being chock-a-block full. And I reboot, and away it all goes!
So given the board's history of problems, is the SATA controller kicking the bucket? Is the (quite new, maybe 1.5 years) hard drive dying?
I'd go with the board being the problem seeing as in the past couple of months I've had it take 30 minutes (no joke) to load XP pro. Removing my sound card and shuffling the USB add-in card around majestically fixed this somehow, but to me it's still not a good sign. I have tried updating the BIOS, reformatting, you name it.
Mostly I am asking out of curiosity for this hard drive situation, the rest I really don't care so much about since I am building a new one soon.
CLIFFS:
But then, long story short, I had my PSU die on me a year or so ago (plugged a camera into a USB port, system crashed, smelled burning).
I replaced the PSU, to find that none of the boards USB ports worked anymore and the temp disply on my Antec P160 no longer worked (it has an LED read out which WAS kind of cool).
Now, a USB add-in card and a few months later I have a new and interesting problem:
My 200GB HDD is partitioned 3 ways, 20GB\70GB\~110GB (what ever's left) as OS\Games\Media respectively.
I boot my computer, and my OS drive displays 8GB free - a few hours later is shows 6GB free, later, 3GB free (see where this is going?) All the way down to every single bit of magnetic material on the drive to being chock-a-block full. And I reboot, and away it all goes!
So given the board's history of problems, is the SATA controller kicking the bucket? Is the (quite new, maybe 1.5 years) hard drive dying?
I'd go with the board being the problem seeing as in the past couple of months I've had it take 30 minutes (no joke) to load XP pro. Removing my sound card and shuffling the USB add-in card around majestically fixed this somehow, but to me it's still not a good sign. I have tried updating the BIOS, reformatting, you name it.
Mostly I am asking out of curiosity for this hard drive situation, the rest I really don't care so much about since I am building a new one soon.
CLIFFS:
- Hard drive magically fills itself up and empties itself when I reboot
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