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Rice Fiend

Rice Fiend

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Hi,

I bought the following from here in Jan 09 and has been running perfectly at these specs - until now.


E8400 (O/C 4Ghz)
ASUS P5Q PRO
4Gb OCZ 1066
ATI HIS 4800

Basically it started a couple of weeks ago where I get the blue screen etc whilst playing a game, (and it's always a game, nothing else causes it) and upon reboot continue to get the same error screen.

I usually managed to fix this via repair console through trial and error (the right command etc) until I can eventually boot up, but after a while I was forced to format.

After doing so I tried a few FPSs/RTSs, and noticed that all animations moved staggered when viewed close up.

Its been suggested that it sounds like a memory problem. I dropped to 2Gb, kept the clock the same and tried again. Seemed a lot better. Not as smooth as I remember, but much better.

Now the latest turn of events - my WD500 ibook. I was downloading a file while in-game and I then I hear the disconnection bleep. I check it out. No external drive visible only a 'USB Device' in its place with exclamation mark thingy saying:

This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)

To reinstall the drivers for this device, click Reinstall Driver.

When I rebooted, it started saying boot config is messed up etc. I have dual boot (other partition booted fine) so changed hard drives around in BIOS and tried to boot on same partition. Now comes up with NTLDR is missing.

No problem I thought, copied the file and booted fine. I still can't get on my external though and I really, REALLY, can't afford to lose all that data.

I will be trying the drive round a friends house this weekend, just to rule out its not the drive itself. But I'm pretty stumped regarding my problem. All I'm doing currently is fixing the crashes until the next one comes around and for lack of a better word, it's really beginning to **** me off.

:)

Hope someone can point me in the right direction.


Thanks
 
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Hi,

Yeah I've set it to default so running at 3Ghz. So far no problems.

PSU is a Corsair 650w. Although I cannot see this being the problem as it ran solid for four months prior.

Any ideas on the USB problem? I thought they'd be computer boffins all over a problem like this.
 
Any ideas what the error message on the blue screen said?

Since the problem only happened in games (ie when components are under stress) I would have guessed it was either a temps or power supply issue. You mentioned you had a corsair PSU which are in general fine units so check your case for excessive dust in the fans, PSU, GPU, cpu HSF etc.

Also try memtest for your individual sticks of ram and something like prime95 (non blend) for your CPU, oh and ATiTool for your GPU.

As for the USB problem I can think of a couple things:

1) cable damaged? try a different one.
2) less likely - driver corrupt. I've had this many a time and the only full proof way to fix it is a clean reinstallation of windows. You could try going to device manager and hitting uninstall for everything under "Universal Serial Bus controllers". Then hit scan for new hardware and it should all reinstall. This has worked for me in the past.

Sounds like ur also having nasty internal HDD issues.

You should really run a chkdsk /r on them. And try and suss out whats going wrong. Corrupted data on your windows install could have lead to a possible corruption in the USB drivers?

Another random idea popped in my head - make sure your PCI and PCI-E bus speeds havent been changed in your BIOS
 
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