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Ku-sama

Ku-sama

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I Have the BEST piece of shit EVER

its a great computer, but it is the biggest pile of shit ever...

okay, so, Every time I format, about a month down the line guess what; bluescreen streak.

format and repeat


okay, so when ever my computer locks up or bluescreens, my primary DVD-RW drive's light turns on with my HDD light. so im getting tired of it (also having problems with my RAM, running at DDR200 for the moment, till RMA) so I go and unplug ALL of my DVD drives, computer doesn't boot, plug in my Master secondary DVD drive, no boot. plug in my slave primary DVD drive with it, no boot. plug in my master primary DVD, boot, unplug all but master primary, boot, all but master primary: no boot...


So, computer boots ONLY with the NEC drive... alright, well try this:

Disable ALL drives but my harddrive...

okay, works for a secon.... wait, no, locked up and restarted, no BSOD....

alright then...

[email protected] 3-3-3-5
not working for me...


okay, so, i'm about to blame the processor for the problem, order which I think could be messing up my system:

RAM
PSU
OS
CPU
Mobo
DVD+-RW drive



I HATE having ALL of the stupid ass problems
 
It's help if your system was in your signature. :) You need to diagnose properly working units. Throw those drives on another computer to test fail/no fail. No use diagnosing with equipment you don't know if it works.
 
whenever you install an OS three things are stressed on your system: RAM, CPU, and motherboard. If you have any problems in memory (on die cache, mb cache, ram, vram, etc) your OS load has a HUGE chance of being corrupted, since when the OS installer pages memory for instructin it is corrupted due to defective, or incompatable hardware. I have seen this so many times, especially with the more expensive over clocked ram, which is why I don't personally buy that over priced crap.

Optical drives typically don't cause a BSOD unless its a read/write error to the drive itself. What is the error message of the blue screen?

Also, how many optical drives do you have in this rig? Is it s duplicator? Otherwise that just doesn't make any sense? Also, can your powersupply handle that much of a load? Is your PSU a true powersupply and not a cheap piece?

Can you boot in safe mode or off of a PE disk, or perhaps a live distro of linux? If you truly have hardware problems your system would have issues booting off a live or PE disk.
 
specs:

AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Deigo
DFI Lanparty nForce 4 SLI-DR Expert
Patriot Signature series RAM 2x512MB PC3200 CL2.5
Western Digital WD2500KS 250GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB cache
XFX nVidia 6800GS XXX Edition 256MB GDDR3
Cooler Master 450W Real power 16+18A on the 12V
NEC DVD-RW, Samsung DVD-RW, Generic DVD-RW
eMachines Media Card Reader
Generic Floppy drive
8x Logisys CCFL bulbs
 
tlarkin said:
whenever you install an OS three things are stressed on your system: RAM, CPU, and motherboard.
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You forgot probably the most important piece f hrdware when INSTALLING an os.... the harddrive maybe... i would have guessed thats stressed a lot more seeing as it is constant disc activity. plus some more if you combine a full format ast the same time
 
dragon2309 said:
You forgot probably the most important piece f hrdware when INSTALLING an os.... the harddrive maybe... i would have guessed thats stressed a lot more seeing as it is constant disc activity. plus some more if you combine a full format ast the same time
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Well defective HDs are typically easier to troubleshoot. You will get a bad block error or the drive won't be recognized in the OS set up. Plus you are typically formatting it and giving it a new partition, so really yes you are right, there is stress on the HD itself during an OS install, but the hardware that is most stressed is CPU, RAM, Mobo because during an OS install really nothing is stored in virtual ram. The only stress the HD is getting is just data being dumped onto it.

For me, whenever I have a bad HD, I can typically just tell from how it is behaving in a manner of minutes.

You can always go to the HD makers website and download their utility to test the drive. This would also test the hardware like I mentioned before, if it can't boot off of other media/OSes then the problem probably lies in memory somewhere (mb, ram, proc) because when you boot off a live distro of linux, the HD isn't even touched. Everything runs in RAM.
 
Ku-sama said:
it's not the harddrive, its something else, harddrive passes all tests...
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Even if something passes all diagnostics it does not make it 100% good. I have had parts in the past completely pass diagnostics, but I found out later they were actually bad by swapping them out with known good parts.

However, if it passes it is more than likely good.
 
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