- Mar 15, 2007
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Haven't ever seen something like this before. . .
About 2 months ago I started having problems with my CD/DVD player in my system. It stopped reading CDs, although it would correctly read DVDs. I swapped in an older DVD ROM I had handy and it worked fine, so I chalked it up to a dying player. I bought a new one from NewEgg and swapped it out and everything seemed to be working fine. Then a few days ago I was copying a new CD onto ITunes and half of the tracks didn't copy. WinXP event monitor said that I was getting errors and warnings from the new player and the link to Microsoft's support page said that the error is usually a result of a problem with a cable. OK, no problem, I have extra EIDE cables hanging around, swap the cable and the problem goes away. Then, not 30 minutes after I swap the DVD's cable I start getting warnings from my data drive, a 250G HD. Again, XP was saying the cable to the device was failing. The drive is SATA, not IDE so I start getting worried. The odds of a SATA cable AND and IDE cable failing at the same time are about nil. I reseated the SATA cable to the disk drive, but no help. I finally moved it to another SATA port on my mobo and the problem seemed to go away. That lasted about 24 hours until tonight. Then the computer simply crashed while I was working. Now it would not restart at all. It would get to the point where asking whether I wanted to boot up in safe mode and load up until vgaoem.fon and hang. A quick run around on google and, lo and behold, when Windows loads incomplete like that it's usually a problem with cable seating. So now the problem appears to be affecting my 70G boot drive. I have not been able to get past this point, swapping cables and positions still will not get XP to boot.
I'm very suspicious of my mobo. Currently I have an Asus P5WD2 Premium (955x). It's the only common denominator that could be why all my drives suddenly seemed to go crazy. But buying a new mobo and hacking apart my computer is not a great option. On the other hand, the alternative isn't too hot either, which is trying to reinstall Windows. That would pretty much trash all my applications. And if it ends up being the mobo then I've just fragged my applications and still need to buy a new mobo.
So I'm looking for opinions. Go mobo or go windows reinstall? Or am I missing another alternative?
About 2 months ago I started having problems with my CD/DVD player in my system. It stopped reading CDs, although it would correctly read DVDs. I swapped in an older DVD ROM I had handy and it worked fine, so I chalked it up to a dying player. I bought a new one from NewEgg and swapped it out and everything seemed to be working fine. Then a few days ago I was copying a new CD onto ITunes and half of the tracks didn't copy. WinXP event monitor said that I was getting errors and warnings from the new player and the link to Microsoft's support page said that the error is usually a result of a problem with a cable. OK, no problem, I have extra EIDE cables hanging around, swap the cable and the problem goes away. Then, not 30 minutes after I swap the DVD's cable I start getting warnings from my data drive, a 250G HD. Again, XP was saying the cable to the device was failing. The drive is SATA, not IDE so I start getting worried. The odds of a SATA cable AND and IDE cable failing at the same time are about nil. I reseated the SATA cable to the disk drive, but no help. I finally moved it to another SATA port on my mobo and the problem seemed to go away. That lasted about 24 hours until tonight. Then the computer simply crashed while I was working. Now it would not restart at all. It would get to the point where asking whether I wanted to boot up in safe mode and load up until vgaoem.fon and hang. A quick run around on google and, lo and behold, when Windows loads incomplete like that it's usually a problem with cable seating. So now the problem appears to be affecting my 70G boot drive. I have not been able to get past this point, swapping cables and positions still will not get XP to boot.
I'm very suspicious of my mobo. Currently I have an Asus P5WD2 Premium (955x). It's the only common denominator that could be why all my drives suddenly seemed to go crazy. But buying a new mobo and hacking apart my computer is not a great option. On the other hand, the alternative isn't too hot either, which is trying to reinstall Windows. That would pretty much trash all my applications. And if it ends up being the mobo then I've just fragged my applications and still need to buy a new mobo.
So I'm looking for opinions. Go mobo or go windows reinstall? Or am I missing another alternative?
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