Boot Disk Error

davidansell · 12 Nov 2011 at 22:25

Ok so I am repairing a friends pc for him.

it fully works at my house, prime 95 stable for 24 hours, gpu has been tested fine, mem tested fine, fresh install of windows 7 64bit.

His pc is the following spec:
Q9650 @ 3.0ghz
4gb Kingston Hyper-X 1066mhz
Bioster Tpower I45
ATI HD 4870X2 2gb
750gb SATA HDD
Bequiet 650W PSU

After pretty much testing everything, when he arrives home from me saying its ok, he seems to get 'Boot disk Error a lot' it literally takes him 20 mins to get into windows, yet when he comes over it loads first time without a problem?

I initally fixed the problem as his board did not seem to like the memory running @ 1066mhz, downclocked to 800mhz, was fine for a day, then the problem came back?

Is this the hard drive or the motherboard?

davidansell · 12 Nov 2011 at 22:39

Have tried a different port, I will try a new cable and a different power cable, thanks

davidansell · 12 Nov 2011 at 22:48

Yeah his psu requires a different kettle lead to anything I have, so its the same one, in terms of sockets I am not quite sure on that one, another thing which lead me towards the motherboard if I tell him to take 1 stick of memory out when the error occurs, it boots fine (and then he puts it back in and its fine)

davidansell · 12 Nov 2011 at 23:02

BeQuiet, infact I cannot quote on the wattage of the psu (Initally I thought it maybe the psu) but unfortunately the psu in my personal machine doesnt even have a PCI-E adapter so I am unable to test.

davidansell · 12 Nov 2011 at 23:23

the graphics card is an X2 model therefore its 2 cards on one board, well his pc hasnt been on today and when he brought it over at 8pm it worked first time.

I have replaced the SATA Cable and used a molex to sata power thingy, but I still have not seen the error appear.. :X