First, let me give you my specs:
AMD Athon 64 3500+
POV GeForce 6800GT
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA
Asus nForce4 board
Running Windows XP SP1 (still wary of SP2)
Now, I have two occasional problems I'd very much appreciate comments for. The harddisk problem:
- It happens occasionally that I switch on the computer to find that no usuable harddisks could be found to boot an OS from. This is usually immediately solved by rebooting or switching power on and off. Annoying. I have also noticed that sometimes after I shut down Windows (or restarted it) and it shuts down cleanly, I get the "Consistency check required" screen. It never finds a problem. I don't know if this is related. I took a dive with going SATA, but I hope I didn't make a mistake there... SATA being a relatively new technology.
- I have had some problems with my mouse. I've not been able to reproduce this behavior, so I have not tested it much. It has happened a couple of times that my mouse pointer stops moving. All move actions still work, and I can click and move around; it's just that the mouse pointer won't correspondent to the actual "mouse pointer" position. When I reboot, this problem is solved. I'm not sure if this can be hardware related of Windows is just messing with me.
If anybody has any ideas, that would be great. Thanks a lot!
AMD Athon 64 3500+
POV GeForce 6800GT
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 200GB SATA
Asus nForce4 board
Running Windows XP SP1 (still wary of SP2)
Now, I have two occasional problems I'd very much appreciate comments for. The harddisk problem:
- It happens occasionally that I switch on the computer to find that no usuable harddisks could be found to boot an OS from. This is usually immediately solved by rebooting or switching power on and off. Annoying. I have also noticed that sometimes after I shut down Windows (or restarted it) and it shuts down cleanly, I get the "Consistency check required" screen. It never finds a problem. I don't know if this is related. I took a dive with going SATA, but I hope I didn't make a mistake there... SATA being a relatively new technology.
- I have had some problems with my mouse. I've not been able to reproduce this behavior, so I have not tested it much. It has happened a couple of times that my mouse pointer stops moving. All move actions still work, and I can click and move around; it's just that the mouse pointer won't correspondent to the actual "mouse pointer" position. When I reboot, this problem is solved. I'm not sure if this can be hardware related of Windows is just messing with me.
If anybody has any ideas, that would be great. Thanks a lot!
It's a pretty good one as far as I'm concerned:
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