Hi Everyone,
I hope someone on here can help shed some light on what is causing my PC problems I am experiencing currently.
Tuesday I went out and left my PC on. I got back about 2 hours later and went into my room and saw that the PC had frozen. This has never happened before. The PC was completely unresponsive so I powered off the PC, and turned the PC back on, and now Windows will not boot. The green bar just scrolls and scrolls for ages. I've tried running in safe mode, but the PC just hangs on crcdisk.sys.
I've run the Western Digital Hard Drive Utility tool (My main drive is a Raptor), and done a quick check and it suggests there is a read problem on the HDD. I think the code was 0007. So, I thought ok the HDD has packed up. It's still under Warranty, so not too fussed. I have most of the things I need on their already backed up, it's just a pain having to install all my programs again.
So, I get my spare HDD (a 500GB Seagate), install that and put a Fresh copy of Windows Vista x64 Ultimate on there, so far so good. Then last night I start getting the uploads and the same thing happens again. The PC just freezes? Now I know there was some kind of bug that wouldn't let you install Vista with 4GB of Memory, so I did a complete format of the drive again, and re-installed Vista again with only 1x2GB stick installed.... Same thing, the PC just locks up. So this leads me to believe that there is another underlying problem somewhere, but I'm stumped as to where to look.
Does anyone have any suggestions what to try?
My PC Spec is in my sig.
Many Thanks!
I hope someone on here can help shed some light on what is causing my PC problems I am experiencing currently.
Tuesday I went out and left my PC on. I got back about 2 hours later and went into my room and saw that the PC had frozen. This has never happened before. The PC was completely unresponsive so I powered off the PC, and turned the PC back on, and now Windows will not boot. The green bar just scrolls and scrolls for ages. I've tried running in safe mode, but the PC just hangs on crcdisk.sys.
I've run the Western Digital Hard Drive Utility tool (My main drive is a Raptor), and done a quick check and it suggests there is a read problem on the HDD. I think the code was 0007. So, I thought ok the HDD has packed up. It's still under Warranty, so not too fussed. I have most of the things I need on their already backed up, it's just a pain having to install all my programs again.
So, I get my spare HDD (a 500GB Seagate), install that and put a Fresh copy of Windows Vista x64 Ultimate on there, so far so good. Then last night I start getting the uploads and the same thing happens again. The PC just freezes? Now I know there was some kind of bug that wouldn't let you install Vista with 4GB of Memory, so I did a complete format of the drive again, and re-installed Vista again with only 1x2GB stick installed.... Same thing, the PC just locks up. So this leads me to believe that there is another underlying problem somewhere, but I'm stumped as to where to look.
Does anyone have any suggestions what to try?
My PC Spec is in my sig.
Many Thanks!