Ok, so here's the story...
I have a Opteron 146 and a DFI mobo with 2 Gigs of OCZ Gold ram. NOT OVERCLOCKED! Also, I have 2 PATA Maxtor HD and a few DVD burners. Running XP Pro with all of the fixes.
My problem is that about once a day I'm come to my computer and it is freshly booted, even though I never rebooted it. Also, occasionally, it just freezes. Not BSOD, but freezes, thus requiring a hard restart. Lately however, sometimes it will not boot past the BIOS, other times it gets past the BIOS screen, but then tell me that I have a DRIVE BOOT ERROR, and then again, sometimes it will just boot right up into Windows like there is no problem.
So, I'm down to only a few components that can cause this error. (please correct me or comment on these if I'm wrong)
A. Ram - I ran memtest for a few hours last night with no errors found, but as soon as I messed with the keyboard (trying to escape out of the program) the computer locked up.
B. Motherboard - DFI Lanparty... it was a refurb so maybe that is faulting out.
C. CPU - Some how I just doubt that the CPU is the problem...
D. Power Supply - I'm running an ULTRA 550 Watt PS. I really haven't heard anything good about this company... But would a faulty power supply give me these types of errors?
Thanks for the help
Phios
I have a Opteron 146 and a DFI mobo with 2 Gigs of OCZ Gold ram. NOT OVERCLOCKED! Also, I have 2 PATA Maxtor HD and a few DVD burners. Running XP Pro with all of the fixes.
My problem is that about once a day I'm come to my computer and it is freshly booted, even though I never rebooted it. Also, occasionally, it just freezes. Not BSOD, but freezes, thus requiring a hard restart. Lately however, sometimes it will not boot past the BIOS, other times it gets past the BIOS screen, but then tell me that I have a DRIVE BOOT ERROR, and then again, sometimes it will just boot right up into Windows like there is no problem.
So, I'm down to only a few components that can cause this error. (please correct me or comment on these if I'm wrong)
A. Ram - I ran memtest for a few hours last night with no errors found, but as soon as I messed with the keyboard (trying to escape out of the program) the computer locked up.
B. Motherboard - DFI Lanparty... it was a refurb so maybe that is faulting out.
C. CPU - Some how I just doubt that the CPU is the problem...
D. Power Supply - I'm running an ULTRA 550 Watt PS. I really haven't heard anything good about this company... But would a faulty power supply give me these types of errors?
Thanks for the help
Phios
