superrandall64
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i think i may have a busted hard drive... dont wanna replace it for nothing. it's a 200 gig samsung spinpoint series 3.0 gb/s.
so here's what's happening. computer stopped working completely a number of days ago. i turn it on, nothing. cooling fans are on, power indicator light is on... nothing else happens. no blinking cursor on the monitor or nothing. sometimes though... the pc actually starts up. i figured it was probably something missing in windows... like an important startup file or something (if that's a stupid assumption, forgive me.) so i erased the hard drive. computer still stayed on and worked and everything. sometimes. sometimes it goes back to what it usually does... just powers on. when it does actually work, and i try to re-install windows, i get one of those "i stopped because of this" errors, after researching those 0x0000000A errors, i've deducted that because it had a problem with cyclic redundancy... and the 0A instead of 0? says it had a problem writing (as opposed to reading) so... can hard drives sort of break? this is the only hard drive in this computer, and it's the only hard drive i own that connects in this way. it's one of those newer red cables. as opposed to the thin wide grey one. my mobo doesn't support the wide grey one, so i cant trouble shoot that way. i'm trying not to waste to much money here, so i can use my tax return for some upgrades!
so... if you have a clue what else it could be... or you could verify that it is in fact the hard drive lemme know please. also! when it works, i get my post beep. when it doesn't work... it's silent. when i first noticed the problem, through a few turn on, turn off trials... i eventually had this alarm go off. it was fast beeping that continued till i turned off the computer.
so here's what's happening. computer stopped working completely a number of days ago. i turn it on, nothing. cooling fans are on, power indicator light is on... nothing else happens. no blinking cursor on the monitor or nothing. sometimes though... the pc actually starts up. i figured it was probably something missing in windows... like an important startup file or something (if that's a stupid assumption, forgive me.) so i erased the hard drive. computer still stayed on and worked and everything. sometimes. sometimes it goes back to what it usually does... just powers on. when it does actually work, and i try to re-install windows, i get one of those "i stopped because of this" errors, after researching those 0x0000000A errors, i've deducted that because it had a problem with cyclic redundancy... and the 0A instead of 0? says it had a problem writing (as opposed to reading) so... can hard drives sort of break? this is the only hard drive in this computer, and it's the only hard drive i own that connects in this way. it's one of those newer red cables. as opposed to the thin wide grey one. my mobo doesn't support the wide grey one, so i cant trouble shoot that way. i'm trying not to waste to much money here, so i can use my tax return for some upgrades!
so... if you have a clue what else it could be... or you could verify that it is in fact the hard drive lemme know please. also! when it works, i get my post beep. when it doesn't work... it's silent. when i first noticed the problem, through a few turn on, turn off trials... i eventually had this alarm go off. it was fast beeping that continued till i turned off the computer.
