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Ok, I built this computer about a year ago, the only thing I reused from my old PC was the Case & a HD which was only a few months old at the time. Here are the specs
MSI Neo-2 p35 MB
2 gigs PC-800 Crucial DDR2
500 gig WD IDE HD
Nvidia 8600GT
nothing is overclocked, and my temps are good (mid 30's) XP has ran pretty flawlessly, with the exception of a few hickups. Around January I tried to install Vista and it was nothing but headaches. I tried every combination of drivers I could find, every time when my system would boot up as soon as I tried to do anything in Vista I'd get a "disk corrupt" and when I rebooted chkdsk would run and always find problems with a bunch of files and the MFT. I'd ran every HD testing program I could find with nothing. I swapped the HD with another and same issues so I removed the HD as the cause. I ran memtest for days with no errors. I'd say I tried installing Vista 7 times with the same issue every time. I even tried different a different Vista DVD to rule out my disc being the problem.
I got brave the other day with my XP on the fritz and tried to install ANOTHER Vista Disc from a neighbor, I figured if it worked I could just use my product key on it. NOPE same "Corrupt disc" error and when I rebooted back to XP a ton of my files were gone. The HD is not bad, if I got 2 bad HD's that both work perfectly in XP and nothing that scans them is producing any errors I have to imagine it's one of 2 things.
Bad MB or bad IDE port. Both HD's were IDE. I don't want to RMA the MB if that's not it, and I don't want to buy a SATA HD if that's not it either. I would like to put Vista on here I'm just not sure what else I can try. I can't imagine there's anything I'm overlooking but maybe somebody here has an idea? I might end up getting a SATA HD just because I'd like to have one (in a few weeks) and if I do I'll try putting Vista on it, but any other ideas what it could be?
thanks 🙂
MSI Neo-2 p35 MB
2 gigs PC-800 Crucial DDR2
500 gig WD IDE HD
Nvidia 8600GT
nothing is overclocked, and my temps are good (mid 30's) XP has ran pretty flawlessly, with the exception of a few hickups. Around January I tried to install Vista and it was nothing but headaches. I tried every combination of drivers I could find, every time when my system would boot up as soon as I tried to do anything in Vista I'd get a "disk corrupt" and when I rebooted chkdsk would run and always find problems with a bunch of files and the MFT. I'd ran every HD testing program I could find with nothing. I swapped the HD with another and same issues so I removed the HD as the cause. I ran memtest for days with no errors. I'd say I tried installing Vista 7 times with the same issue every time. I even tried different a different Vista DVD to rule out my disc being the problem.
I got brave the other day with my XP on the fritz and tried to install ANOTHER Vista Disc from a neighbor, I figured if it worked I could just use my product key on it. NOPE same "Corrupt disc" error and when I rebooted back to XP a ton of my files were gone. The HD is not bad, if I got 2 bad HD's that both work perfectly in XP and nothing that scans them is producing any errors I have to imagine it's one of 2 things.
Bad MB or bad IDE port. Both HD's were IDE. I don't want to RMA the MB if that's not it, and I don't want to buy a SATA HD if that's not it either. I would like to put Vista on here I'm just not sure what else I can try. I can't imagine there's anything I'm overlooking but maybe somebody here has an idea? I might end up getting a SATA HD just because I'd like to have one (in a few weeks) and if I do I'll try putting Vista on it, but any other ideas what it could be?
thanks 🙂
