Help again, more problems.

[aSc1@3]

Ok. after this thread, my last thread will be on the next page, so here i go:

Ok, last-night when my pc was in xp, it went into sleep-mode, as usual. about 30min. later, it restarted. Then, it said there was no keyboard, press f1 to continue. the keyboard had power, as the numlock key light was on. so i pressed f1, and it regidtered the key-press. so the, i was able to use the arrow-keys(even though to the pc, there was no keyboard)to select xp from the GRUB bottloader. it went into xp, and at the select-user screen, the mouse wouldn't move, but it still had power, it is a laser mouse, and the laser-light is on.SO, know i can't use xp, and my comp. is randomly restarting AGAIN. I think it may be a mouse/keyboard driver-problem or a psu issue. also, after it restarted, the HDD was making some weird noises, but than it stopped, and went back to normal. I havn't tried booting into ubuntu, but i doubt that it will work, so i really need some help. Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[funkysnair]

when was the last time you done a fresh windows install? defrag? disk clean up? have you just had a virus etc?

you could have damage to your hard drive or windows installation!!!

i have had a hard drive with bad sectors, made alot of noise and was a bit speratic when used

 

[aSc1@3]

when was the last time you done a fresh windows install? defrag? disk clean up? have you just had a virus etc?

you could have damage to your hard drive or windows installation!!!

i have had a hard drive with bad sectors, made alot of noise and was a bit speratic when used

I just fresh-installed it about a month ago or so. defraged it last 2-days ago. no disk-cleanups yet. no viruses, hasn't been connected to the interrnet yet, still waiting for cable from newegg. would using gparted to re-format the whole drive and reinstall os's again help?

 

[larryf215]

if you are having the same issue with 2 different operating systems, it is likely a hardware problem.

 

[aSc1@3]

it hasn't happened in ubuntu yet

 

[oscaryu1]

Wierd sound... Try some HDD diagnostic software.

 

[aSc1@3]

like what?

P.S. My mobo is wierd, it doesn't POST unless you press TAB at teh mobo splash-screen. Turns out if I don't make it POST, it doesn't restart randomly, only on the two games i mentioned in my last thread. That's kinda frieky, I thought POSTing was supposed to help it, not damage the PC.

 

[just a noob]

rma the mobo?

 

[aSc1@3]

it's a built in feature, and i didn't get it from newegg.