I think I need a new computer...

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:12 am

I was playing a game when the PC froze and BSOD'd, giving me a kernel error of some sort. I heard a click-whirr noise coming from the tower, then it restarted. I had a few problems getting the thing to start again. A few errors about hardware not being compatible or something. When it finally did restart and I was backing shit up, I'd hear the click-whirring again and for a second or two the PC would freeze. It was running slow or freezing every few seconds. I restarted the PC and now it's running fine. Fortunately everything's backed up now.

Could that be my really old hard drive dieing?

I never ended up getting that computer I was talking about building a few months back. Funds went dry. But I think now I'm going to have to get a new one. I'm sick of all the problems this one's giving me.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:13 am

Shouldent this be in TNT

Post by **plained** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:16 am

yes i believe it shud

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:21 am

It sounds like a dieing hard drive.

Post by **plained** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:21 am

WELL DU UH

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:22 am

AmIdYfReAk wrote:Shouldent this be in TNT

Wups!

Post by **plained** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:24 am

:sdrool: btw

*duff

Post by **Jemcdv** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:26 am

It's going to happen more and more frequent.. better get a second drive.

Post by **duffman91** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:37 am

plained wrote:WELL DU UH

I didn't see where you told him it was the HD.

Post by **plained** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:37 am

oh you you you

HEHE

Post by **K-mart Shopper** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:42 am

My harddrive ticks it's data to smithereens when I cold-boot. Oh, and it loads really really slow sometimes, and sometimes it searchs for valid partitions for like 30 minutes.

It's old and needs to be replaced :icon26: My OS is on my shweet 4gig though :icon25:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:45 am

gotta love it when people are backing up just after a failure

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:42 am

I make monthly backups, but I have projects for final exams on the PC right now that I haven't put on CD yet. Well, not until a few hours ago.

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:05 am

Any idea how I can unplug my hard drive and get into windows? I'm a bit hardware ignorant, so I dunno why I can't just unplug the HDD without getting an error.

Once the PC is detecting boot devices and passes the CD ROM, it requests a boot CD. Plugging the hard drive back in makes the message go away...

Post by **Geebs** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:19 am

if that's your only hd, you can't "unplug it and get into windows" because with it unplugged, there's nothing to load windows from

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:19 am

I've got 2 HDDs. Well, actually 3. 2 40 GB RAIDed together and 1 10 GB that's 5 years old and dieing. Windows is installed on the RAIDed HDD.

Post by **Geebs** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:22 am

Transient wrote:Windows is installed on the RAIDed HDD.

Oops.

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:50 am

Yeah, I'm never RAIDing again...