BSOD's... Again!

Not saying its your P/S but that model the HX520W has 3 rails with 18 amps max pull on any one rail. But it only has 40 amps. total on the 12V rails plus 480 watts on the 12V. You dont just add the rails together, thats just the max any one rail can pull without kicking the P/S out or if it pulls more than 40 amps total.
 
Oh no. Not again. :(

I'm going out on a limb but I'm guessing it's the video card, nothing but trouble since you put it in.
 
A video card. Couldn't cause a Blue Screen, the drivers could though. I'll try changing them if I can get it to boot.
 
Kornowski said:
Didn't see your post there Stangle. So, does that make you thnk it could be the PSU.
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Its just on the boarder line for 2 8800GTS. Hate to say it was, you get another P/S and it does the same thing. But that would be the next thing you ought to upgrade. Corsair has been running a good deals on there 750TX with one big 60 amp rail.
 
Well, 6 passes with Memtest and no errors.

Tried it again and it wouldn't boot, so I'll have to take a good look at it all tomorrow if I get the chance. It couldn't have picket a worse time, I have a load of Uni work in for Friday!


When I just turned it off, the HDD (don't know which one) didn't sound too good as it spun down.

What would a Linux Live CD do?
 
is the bios recognizing the drive, by correct model & size? boot with a knoppix cd and see if you can access the drive. See if the knoppix cd will run for a while without problems.
 
Kornowski said:
Ah, how so? Would I have to install anything or just run it? This sounds like it'll help a load, thanks! Moar info please! :)
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Well, basically you boot into the live CD and (in the case of Ubuntu) go to "Places > Computer" and right click on your hard drive and then click "Mount Volume"... then once it's mounted (if it mounts) you double click on your HD's icon and hope your stuff is there... if it fails to mount or your files are corrupted I'd say there's an HD issue.

EDIT: larryf215 has the right idea... I doubt you have a Knoppix CD, but if I remember right you got Ubuntu a while back... it'll do the trick just as well.

Also, if your BIOS tells you the drive is 5000TB or some crazy size like that, I'd say it needs zero-filling... which unfortunately deletes all your files and partitions.
 
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well I DO have some good news: I highly doubt it is the CPU because it seems when the CPU is dead the computer will not even post. That is waht happened with my brother, is CPU came DOA. he's so mad.
 
Alright, safe mode hangs on srcdisk.sys, I think that's it.
Vista repair didn't fix anything. Both HDDs show up in the BIOS, and Gparted.

I ran Drive Fitness Test on both drives and they came out fine. I was looking up the black screen problem and people said it could be related to nForce SATA drivers, don't know how much truth there is in that?

I remember these are the exact same symptons as the last problem I had!

Strange how it should happen again, the exact same thing. On a different drive, especially after they both worked fine for a good while, then all of a sudden, this!
I think it could be software or driver related for it to happen twice...

Can Gparted format a partition of a drive, because I have work that I can't loses on it.
 
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