Hello,
I built a lovely NF7-S Barton rig about three years ago. It served we well and without problems. It used a pair of SATA drives. I had never run SP2 on this machine before.
About a month ago, I gave it to my mum. I bought a new copy of Windows with SP2 included on the disk from Overclockers. Formatted the main drive and installed it onto the PC.
About a week after delivering it, my mum called me to say that the PC wouldn't start up. When I went to visit my mum, it turned out that the BSOD was reporting "Unmountable Boot Volume".
So I fixed the boot via the recovery console and presumed it was a case of a dying disk. I bought a new drive and prepared to install it again over Christmas, when I'd be visiting.
So I installed the new drive on 23rd December, did a fresh install of Windows from the SP2 disk.
On 29th December, the PC died again. This time it wouldn't even get to a BSOD. The recovery console wouldn't work and I had to slave the disk to another PC to repair it. Then it would boot again.
So I reinstalled Windows, but this time off another copy of Windows which only had SP1 on it. This was because I had heard stories of problems similar to mine caused by SP2 installs. I then updated everything up to SP2, installed Office, Firefox and Norton 2006.
I've just Remote Assisted onto my mum's PC and found errors when I run CHKDSK. I haven't done a /F on them yet because I don't want to stop the PC booting altogether and I live a fair distance away.
I have also run the Event Viewer and found 2 errors. One is an NTFS error complaining about the the file structure on D:. The other is an error referring to comething called SidebySide.
My theories are so far:
1] It can't be the HDD, since I have replaced that.
2] It might be power supply, but it looks pretty stable in the BIOS hardware monitor.
3] It could be that the SP2 install came with special data destruction code.
4] It could be that the SATA drivers bundled with the SP2 install were iffy.
5] The SATA cables could be loose (I used to plug and unplug them a lot when I owned the PC).
6] Although it is a fresh install, it could be a virus that has hitched along on my mum's Documents and old desktop files that I copied across.
Has anyone had a similar experience or have any clues as to what might be going on? I'm at my wit's end!
Thanks in advance!
I built a lovely NF7-S Barton rig about three years ago. It served we well and without problems. It used a pair of SATA drives. I had never run SP2 on this machine before.
About a month ago, I gave it to my mum. I bought a new copy of Windows with SP2 included on the disk from Overclockers. Formatted the main drive and installed it onto the PC.
About a week after delivering it, my mum called me to say that the PC wouldn't start up. When I went to visit my mum, it turned out that the BSOD was reporting "Unmountable Boot Volume".
So I fixed the boot via the recovery console and presumed it was a case of a dying disk. I bought a new drive and prepared to install it again over Christmas, when I'd be visiting.
So I installed the new drive on 23rd December, did a fresh install of Windows from the SP2 disk.
On 29th December, the PC died again. This time it wouldn't even get to a BSOD. The recovery console wouldn't work and I had to slave the disk to another PC to repair it. Then it would boot again.
So I reinstalled Windows, but this time off another copy of Windows which only had SP1 on it. This was because I had heard stories of problems similar to mine caused by SP2 installs. I then updated everything up to SP2, installed Office, Firefox and Norton 2006.
I've just Remote Assisted onto my mum's PC and found errors when I run CHKDSK. I haven't done a /F on them yet because I don't want to stop the PC booting altogether and I live a fair distance away.
I have also run the Event Viewer and found 2 errors. One is an NTFS error complaining about the the file structure on D:. The other is an error referring to comething called SidebySide.
My theories are so far:
1] It can't be the HDD, since I have replaced that.
2] It might be power supply, but it looks pretty stable in the BIOS hardware monitor.
3] It could be that the SP2 install came with special data destruction code.
4] It could be that the SATA drivers bundled with the SP2 install were iffy.
5] The SATA cables could be loose (I used to plug and unplug them a lot when I owned the PC).
6] Although it is a fresh install, it could be a virus that has hitched along on my mum's Documents and old desktop files that I copied across.
Has anyone had a similar experience or have any clues as to what might be going on? I'm at my wit's end!
Thanks in advance!
