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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 13 2010, 05:45 PM (772 Views) | |
| Walker | Jan 13 2010, 05:45 PM Post #1 |
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A couple weeks ago there was a power surge and ever since my harddrive has been making grinding and clonking noises and randomly stutters. Last night I went to open a program and the entire machine froze solid, had to shut it down and upon restart it ran a checkdisk and fixed two index files. Afterwards, the PC went into a restart loop with a BSOD that lasted a fraction of a second, even when trying to boot into safe mode. Reformatted the harddrive, all was well for a little while, and then it went back to freezing solid after starting up. I believe that the harddrive is physically damaged, and my processor seems to not be working very efficiently anymore either. Going to replace them both, should have my parts by early next week. Getting a Phenom II x4 Black edition Deneb 3.0 ghz to fit in my AM2+ slot and a Western Digital 640GB 32mb cache harddrive to replace my seagate barracuda. Eventually I'll upgrade my graphics card, but if I want to get anything of the HD5000+ series from ATI I'm going to have to upgrade to the Antec 1200 case so that I have room for the 11.5" card length. My Gigabyte Poseidon chassis just doesn't have room for it without it extending into the drive bays. |
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| IrishDragon | Jan 13 2010, 05:53 PM Post #2 |
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Have you tried sticking the bad drive in the freezer? I like that trick with faulty drives. |
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| Walker | Jan 13 2010, 06:17 PM Post #3 |
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What's sticking it in the freezer do? O_o |
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| IrishDragon | Jan 13 2010, 06:28 PM Post #4 |
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A primitive and risky method of data recovery. http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/f...cover-data.html |
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| Walker | Jan 13 2010, 06:37 PM Post #5 |
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Well what happened, I opened the program and everyone froze solid. Every window, mouse, process, all frozen. I shut it down and rebooted, checkdisk runs. It fixes two index files. It restarts, asks if i want to boot in a few various different ways, no matter which I selected itd start loading windows then BSOD and under a second of the BSOD appearing shuts down and restarts. Same thing again. I put in the windows disk, delete the partition entirely, reformat and reinstall windows. It works ok for one restart's worth of updates, the second boot up it gets groggy. I install more updates, get some of my programs back on, restart again. After the next reboot it starts freezing really bad, sometimes up to 2 minutes froze in place and cant even pull up task manager. Finally it gets to the point where I have to do a hard shutdown and then it takes forever to load up. Now it won't even make it past windows login screen without freezing solid. Not quite sure if putting it in the freezer will help. |
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| Raikiri | Jan 13 2010, 07:29 PM Post #6 |
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There's a really good Thermaltake case that just came out over at Tigerdirect. I suggest you give it a look. It's pretty roomy from what I can tell. Also it's 1/2 the price of the 1200. Sucks about the HD. What was the STOP error code? 0x7b? Also, what are you running now graphics-wise? I'm hunting around for a Radeon HD 4750 x2 |
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| Walker | Jan 13 2010, 07:54 PM Post #7 |
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I'll check out that thermaltake case. I'm running a radeon hd4850 stock 512 mb, kinda want to upgrade it cuz it runs hottt. I couldnt see the error code long enough to know what it said. It was a blue flash with white text on it. Didn't stick around and couldnt boot back up to get to the dump files. |
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| Raikiri | Jan 13 2010, 08:02 PM Post #8 |
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do you have a BartPE disc? no tech should ever be without one. |
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| Walker | Jan 13 2010, 08:13 PM Post #9 |
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Yes, and tried. BSOD's with it as well. |
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| Raikiri | Jan 13 2010, 09:58 PM Post #10 |
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then its not your HD. |
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| Walker | Jan 13 2010, 10:07 PM Post #11 |
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That's why I'm replacing the processor as well. I know the harddrive has physical damage from the scraping and grinding. The processor has been having issues of going up to nearly 100% and holding there while even idling. |
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| Raikiri | Jan 13 2010, 11:19 PM Post #12 |
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also recommend running memtest 86+ As well. It may be bad... Especially since there seems to be electrical damage |
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| Walker | Jan 14 2010, 11:42 AM Post #13 |
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Ran it, no issues found. I reformatted again and connected my harddrive to a new SATA port on my motherboard beforehand. Things are actually running now, but painfully slow and freezes every so often. My Phenom II Black Edition 3.0 will be here along with the harddrive by the start of next week. |
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| Walker | Jan 14 2010, 12:07 PM Post #14 |
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New case I'll be ordering in a few days is the Antec 900, along with a Sapphire Radeon HD5850 1GB GDDR5. Very small difference betwen the 5870 and the 5850, not noticable enough until DX11 games come into the spotlight to justify the extra $100. The 5850 can max out anything I please, plus the new 3.0 ghz processor will make my rig run like a dream on any game. |
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| Ocelots | Jan 14 2010, 12:57 PM Post #15 |
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DDR5?!?!?!? o.O I thought the max was DDR3 o_o I never saw any DDR5 ram until now i guess XD |
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