My computer has worked flawlessly for 3 months, and it started acting up this past few days. It started when one of my harddrives became "unformatted" and a machine check exception BSOD would randomly occur. I took out the failed drive and reformated my system drive with a clean winxp. it didnt fix the BSODs..
Now, ANOTHER one of hard drives became unformatted, and the "machine check exception" blue screens still showed. As of latest, at boot, the IDE channels dont get reconized at all(system drive is on sata so im able to get into windows still). I really dont know whats going on? is the motherboard at fault here? What would cause my harddrives to crap out like that.
Asus A8N Premium
AMD X2 4400+
As ive said, its worked without any problems for months..its frustrating to lose data on 2 hard drives. Any suggestions on how to test where the problem is? thanks
Now, ANOTHER one of hard drives became unformatted, and the "machine check exception" blue screens still showed. As of latest, at boot, the IDE channels dont get reconized at all(system drive is on sata so im able to get into windows still). I really dont know whats going on? is the motherboard at fault here? What would cause my harddrives to crap out like that.
Asus A8N Premium
AMD X2 4400+
As ive said, its worked without any problems for months..its frustrating to lose data on 2 hard drives. Any suggestions on how to test where the problem is? thanks