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Hi Guys,
At christmas I built a PC for a friend with the following spec:
Core 2 Duo E6400
ASRock COnroe X-Fire ESTAT2
1GB Corsair DDR2
Nvidia 7600GT
Western Digital WD2500KS
All was well for around 3 weeks and Win. XP pro was working fine. Then something within the windwos installation corrupted and it refused to start up and required a format and a reinstall to get it back up and running. For around the past 3 weeks it has been fine and I thought maybe something had just caused a file system problem and the reinstall had fixed it.
However I have just received a call from a friend saying that he is now looking at a black screen with the message
"Disk read error - Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart"
The first time I had the PC returned due to the original problem I ran both Western Digital diagnostic tools and also Memtest86 on the amchine for significant periods of time to eliminate any hardware faults. I am now facing *** problem of if I simply reinstall windows again that it is likely to do this again in the future.
Does anyone have any reccomendations as to what I can do, I have tried the following:
New SATA cable
Different SATA port on the motherboard
Downloaded latest Drivers from ASRock's website for second installation
Ran Western Digital Diag. progs on the HDD
Ran MEMTEST86 to eliminate memory errors
Reseated and checked all hardware connections.
Please please help this PC is driving me mad! I do not mind buying a replacment HDD and taking my friends as a storage device for myself if i can be confident the same problem will not repeat itself.
Thanks in advance
At christmas I built a PC for a friend with the following spec:
Core 2 Duo E6400
ASRock COnroe X-Fire ESTAT2
1GB Corsair DDR2
Nvidia 7600GT
Western Digital WD2500KS
All was well for around 3 weeks and Win. XP pro was working fine. Then something within the windwos installation corrupted and it refused to start up and required a format and a reinstall to get it back up and running. For around the past 3 weeks it has been fine and I thought maybe something had just caused a file system problem and the reinstall had fixed it.
However I have just received a call from a friend saying that he is now looking at a black screen with the message
"Disk read error - Press Ctrl Alt Del to restart"
The first time I had the PC returned due to the original problem I ran both Western Digital diagnostic tools and also Memtest86 on the amchine for significant periods of time to eliminate any hardware faults. I am now facing *** problem of if I simply reinstall windows again that it is likely to do this again in the future.
Does anyone have any reccomendations as to what I can do, I have tried the following:
New SATA cable
Different SATA port on the motherboard
Downloaded latest Drivers from ASRock's website for second installation
Ran Western Digital Diag. progs on the HDD
Ran MEMTEST86 to eliminate memory errors
Reseated and checked all hardware connections.
Please please help this PC is driving me mad! I do not mind buying a replacment HDD and taking my friends as a storage device for myself if i can be confident the same problem will not repeat itself.
Thanks in advance
