Craziest thing I've ever seen and I thought I had seen it all. Fresh install of XP on a desktop on a brand new 1TB Seagate drive (replaced failing 320GB). Seemed to work ok, installed XP via the recovery disks (Sony Vaio), system booted up. I tried to copy the documents and pics back to the appropriate folders and when it got about halfway of the 85GB of data it would freeze. So I hooked the new drive up via a USB adapter to my laptop and copied the data via my laptop to the new drive and it worked fine.
Slapped the new drive back in the desktop, booted it up, and after it runs for a few minutes I get the balloon in the taskbar telling me the LAN has been disconnected (even though it hasn't and the connection and activity lights on the builtin ethernet are still lit up and flashing). As soon as that happens I notice if I move the mouse constantly it will move for 2 seconds fine then freezes for 1/2 a second then moves for 2 seconds and freezes for 1/2 a second, over and over, until I reboot then its fine for a WHILE before it does it again. I have updated all the drivers. I'm not sure if the onboard Ethernet is actually the problem (or its driver) or if it's just casualty of another problem. I was thinking memory possibly so I ram Memtest86 and it passed. Could be power supply I guess or possibly the new hard drive. Going to try running diagnostics on the drive tonight because I know it'll take quite a while on a 1TB drive.
Anyone have any ideas? I've never really seen anything like it and I've been doing desktop support for 12+ years and have worked on tens of thousands of machines. I'm afraid this could be an unusual motherboard problem and makes me second guess my initial diagnosis that the old hard drive was failing. I was sure it was just a cut and dry hard drive problem when the person told me chkdsk was running at XP's startup and found a lot of files it fixed but then would take HOURS to load the desktop after logging on.
Slapped the new drive back in the desktop, booted it up, and after it runs for a few minutes I get the balloon in the taskbar telling me the LAN has been disconnected (even though it hasn't and the connection and activity lights on the builtin ethernet are still lit up and flashing). As soon as that happens I notice if I move the mouse constantly it will move for 2 seconds fine then freezes for 1/2 a second then moves for 2 seconds and freezes for 1/2 a second, over and over, until I reboot then its fine for a WHILE before it does it again. I have updated all the drivers. I'm not sure if the onboard Ethernet is actually the problem (or its driver) or if it's just casualty of another problem. I was thinking memory possibly so I ram Memtest86 and it passed. Could be power supply I guess or possibly the new hard drive. Going to try running diagnostics on the drive tonight because I know it'll take quite a while on a 1TB drive.
Anyone have any ideas? I've never really seen anything like it and I've been doing desktop support for 12+ years and have worked on tens of thousands of machines. I'm afraid this could be an unusual motherboard problem and makes me second guess my initial diagnosis that the old hard drive was failing. I was sure it was just a cut and dry hard drive problem when the person told me chkdsk was running at XP's startup and found a lot of files it fixed but then would take HOURS to load the desktop after logging on.
