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RyanDibo · 10-03-2007, 11:25 AM

Hello everyone, I'm a new poster and a long time adherer to trying to fix it on my own. I've had an abundance of PC problems over the past year and a half and although thought I was on the right track to fixing it am now completely and utterly clueless and in the dark.

First off let me explain that I am unaware of what causes these problems, but they all ultimately lead to XP Bootscreen slowdown and overall slowdown to programs. Eventually this leads to HDD clicking and failure to load windows and facing the BSOD.

When I initially built this computer I had no problems, and the only time I ever switched Hardware was a Christmas over 2 years ago, a few months afterward is when I started experiencing these problems.

My first problem was severe slowdown on booting windows (Not startup) and slowdown in loading games and other programs. Eventually one night I booted up my windows and bam, BSOD. So thinking it was a bad drive I went out and bought a new one, same make and everything. No later then 1 month later same problem and same eventual hdd death.

So I put back in my older drive, and reinstalled windows and started from scratch. Worked fine for about 2-3 months until I experienced the same problems then crash. For about a year I had been switching off both of the drives almost monthly, reformatting each time just trying to get by.

About 2 months ago I buy a new Harddrive, I believe this to be finally the end of my problems, and just in time as well since the drive I was currently on was on its last leg until having to be reformatted once more. But no more then 3 days later, Bam BSOD and the precursing slowdown. Astonished and rattled I had realized that it couldnt possibly be the drive so I looked back on what Ive done to my PC.

Knowing that there was only one time that I had ever switched components in my PC I believe that time to be the cause. On that Christmas I purchased 2 compatible sticks of RAM and a new top-end sound card. Since reformatting this new drive for the first time I had taken out both of the new RAM sticks, in case they were bad or corrupted.

But this is where my story puts me into depression, Still after removing the 2 sticks I presumed to be faulty my computer out of the blue one day takes 2 minutes to load windows and experiences slowdown just like the all too familiar precursor of death. This was about 4 days ago.

I've tryed something new and did System Restore, and it seemed to work. Fixing the slowdown and maybe reversing the precursor for good. However tonight its back to the slowdown and Im just waiting for that blue screen on this perfectly new drive. Ive done system restore once more to put it off and its back to its falsetto working state for now.

I apologize for the long story but it is very hard to explain in a short one. I'm just at wits end here and although this post has no real technical specs of my components I am ready to look up and post any one of them that is asked.

In my mind the only things that could continually cause this problem is my PSU. Its 450w and has a very bad rep for dying on newegg. I believe that the low wattage is corrupting my ram and therefore corrupting my drive no matter which one I switch to, and due to the power being spread out around my case. But since I've only had these constant drive failures starting after changing my sound card to a higher end one it makes me think that I should just purchase a new 550 or 600w PSU and new RAM (just to be safe).

I just need guidance and would love and appreciate any form of help and please mods feel free to move my thread to a new topic I wasnt entirely sure on where to post this type of problem.

10-03-2007, 11:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
RyanDibo Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 9 OS: Windows Xp	Mystery Problems, Leads to XP Failure Hello everyone, I'm a new poster and a long time adherer to trying to fix it on my own. I've had an abundance of PC problems over the past year and a half and although thought I was on the right track to fixing it am now completely and utterly clueless and in the dark. First off let me explain that I am unaware of what causes these problems, but they all ultimately lead to XP Bootscreen slowdown and overall slowdown to programs. Eventually this leads to HDD clicking and failure to load windows and facing the BSOD. When I initially built this computer I had no problems, and the only time I ever switched Hardware was a Christmas over 2 years ago, a few months afterward is when I started experiencing these problems. My first problem was severe slowdown on booting windows (Not startup) and slowdown in loading games and other programs. Eventually one night I booted up my windows and bam, BSOD. So thinking it was a bad drive I went out and bought a new one, same make and everything. No later then 1 month later same problem and same eventual hdd death. So I put back in my older drive, and reinstalled windows and started from scratch. Worked fine for about 2-3 months until I experienced the same problems then crash. For about a year I had been switching off both of the drives almost monthly, reformatting each time just trying to get by. About 2 months ago I buy a new Harddrive, I believe this to be finally the end of my problems, and just in time as well since the drive I was currently on was on its last leg until having to be reformatted once more. But no more then 3 days later, Bam BSOD and the precursing slowdown. Astonished and rattled I had realized that it couldnt possibly be the drive so I looked back on what Ive done to my PC. Knowing that there was only one time that I had ever switched components in my PC I believe that time to be the cause. On that Christmas I purchased 2 compatible sticks of RAM and a new top-end sound card. Since reformatting this new drive for the first time I had taken out both of the new RAM sticks, in case they were bad or corrupted. But this is where my story puts me into depression, Still after removing the 2 sticks I presumed to be faulty my computer out of the blue one day takes 2 minutes to load windows and experiences slowdown just like the all too familiar precursor of death. This was about 4 days ago. I've tryed something new and did System Restore, and it seemed to work. Fixing the slowdown and maybe reversing the precursor for good. However tonight its back to the slowdown and Im just waiting for that blue screen on this perfectly new drive. Ive done system restore once more to put it off and its back to its falsetto working state for now. I apologize for the long story but it is very hard to explain in a short one. I'm just at wits end here and although this post has no real technical specs of my components I am ready to look up and post any one of them that is asked. In my mind the only things that could continually cause this problem is my PSU. Its 450w and has a very bad rep for dying on newegg. I believe that the low wattage is corrupting my ram and therefore corrupting my drive no matter which one I switch to, and due to the power being spread out around my case. But since I've only had these constant drive failures starting after changing my sound card to a higher end one it makes me think that I should just purchase a new 550 or 600w PSU and new RAM (just to be safe). I just need guidance and would love and appreciate any form of help and please mods feel free to move my thread to a new topic I wasnt entirely sure on where to post this type of problem.