Hard Drive Problem?

gaz_0001 · 09-19-2007, 12:04 PM

Hi,

I am having a bit of a problem with my computer and i am not sure what it is. Although for some reason i suspect possibly a hard drive problem??

My computer keeps getting the blue screen of death and its favourite is:

*** STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x8A155408, 0x8a15557C, 0x805D1CA)

This is completely random. Ie this morning it has only done it once to me but last night it done it three times, and once i had to boot from XP recovery console to chkdsk the drives and get them up and working again.

It is not happening all the time. I played games on the computer last night for about 4 hours withno problems. It does happen all the time though, but just not pointing to a specific thing.

I have 4 hard drives. 2 500Gb SATA's setup in Raid 0 Striping, and 2 IDE's just used for storage. The sata's show as a 930gb drive, and i have split into 4 partitions.

Almost every single time the computer boots it runs a CHKDSK and finds some kind of errors. This chkdsk its not always on one of the sata raid partitions, sometimes its doing it on the IDE drives aswell.

Also when the computer boots up it searches for the Raid array and it always shows raid array 'Healthy'. But on a few occasions after a restart the computer can not see the raid array, until i switch the power completely off and start up the pc again.

Anyone suggest anything??

**Cromewell** · 09-19-2007, 04:13 PM

It sounds like the hard drives may have a problem but I don't know that a failing hard drive can cause this error. Do you know what the other BSODs are?

It's very weird that all your drives have errors, you could have a PSU problem or even a problem with your motherboard.

andy faith · 09-19-2007, 04:45 PM

I think you should try downloading the Ultimate Boot CD (google it) and run some tests. I've had the same problem before and it's been the RAM that was the problem. With the CD you can test pretty much everything to find out what you're problem is.

Jabes · 09-19-2007, 06:10 PM

wats up with the spacing?
and is this xp?

09-19-2007, 12:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
gaz_0001 New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1	Hard Drive Problem? - 0x000000F4 Hi, I am having a bit of a problem with my computer and i am not sure what it is. Although for some reason i suspect possibly a hard drive problem?? My computer keeps getting the blue screen of death and its favourite is: *** STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x8A155408, 0x8a15557C, 0x805D1CA) This is completely random. Ie this morning it has only done it once to me but last night it done it three times, and once i had to boot from XP recovery console to chkdsk the drives and get them up and working again. It is not happening all the time. I played games on the computer last night for about 4 hours withno problems. It does happen all the time though, but just not pointing to a specific thing. I have 4 hard drives. 2 500Gb SATA's setup in Raid 0 Striping, and 2 IDE's just used for storage. The sata's show as a 930gb drive, and i have split into 4 partitions. Almost every single time the computer boots it runs a CHKDSK and finds some kind of errors. This chkdsk its not always on one of the sata raid partitions, sometimes its doing it on the IDE drives aswell. Also when the computer boots up it searches for the Raid array and it always shows raid array 'Healthy'. But on a few occasions after a restart the computer can not see the raid array, until i switch the power completely off and start up the pc again. Anyone suggest anything??

09-19-2007, 04:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 10,197	It sounds like the hard drives may have a problem but I don't know that a failing hard drive can cause this error. Do you know what the other BSODs are? It's very weird that all your drives have errors, you could have a PSU problem or even a problem with your motherboard. __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. I must plug a couple comics because they are good :D: www.ctrlaltdel-online.com www.userfriendly.org

09-19-2007, 04:45 PM	#3 (permalink)
andy faith Gold Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Coventry Age: 19 Posts: 276	I think you should try downloading the Ultimate Boot CD (google it) and run some tests. I've had the same problem before and it's been the RAM that was the problem. With the CD you can test pretty much everything to find out what you're problem is. __________________ Main PC: Athlon XP 2400+, 1GB RAM, Geforce4 Ti 4200, Asrock K7S8X mobo, 2x40GB HDD. NEC DVDRW, Pioneer DVD\CDRW Backup PC: Athlon XP 2000+, 512MB RAM, 60GB HDD, Radeon 7500 Main Laptop: Inspiron 6400: Core 2 Duo 2.0GHz, 80GB SATA HDD, 2GB PC2-4200, DVD-RW, Radeon X1300 Backup laptop: Latitude D410, Pentium M 1.73GHz, 60GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD-ROM

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09-19-2007, 06:10 PM	#4 (permalink)
Jabes banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vista the best place to live :D Age: 15 Posts: 1,773	wats up with the spacing? and is this xp?