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When you installed the WD 40 gig. drive did you remove all of the jumpers off of the drive?
When you installed the WD 40 gig. drive did you remove all of the jumpers off of the drive?
Bad stability problem
I am having an extremely stressful problem with my new hardware. I am not a tech guy, however I have put together and installed my own machines previously with no problems.
I have purchased the following components:
-- Tyan Motherboard (model s2662, Intel E7205 chipset)
-- Intel 3.06ghz 533 FSB CPU
-- (1) 184 pin 1gb PC2100 DDR Chip
-- ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb Video Card
I had planned on buying a nice hard drive, however being short on cash I purchased a cheaper one for now with the intent to upgrade. It is just a run-of-the-mill Western Digital 40gb Caviar drive (IDE).
OK, with all that being said I was able to get everything together and working just fine save for the following issues:
(1) BIOS would not recognize the hard drive (could not open boot sector to check for signature...however it works fine on machines at work), so I had to take the SCSI from my old machine and install on the new: Adaptec 29160 w/IBM 36gb drive.
(2) USB 2.0 drivers would cause Windows to somehow "lose" its connection w/ the keyboard and mouse. I declined to install them and I had no problems.
Other than the above two issues, there were no problems. All my software ran great (I am a 3-D artist and so therefore run graphics-intensive programs), games ran nice, etc. I stayed away from SP4, and stopped at SP3. I also had Norton Personal Firewall installed along with my cable connection to the internet. All of this lasted for about a week.
A particular game (Dark Age of Camelot) began crashing to the desktop often. I figured I might see if there were some windows updates I might need, as their tech support always says to "stay updated", so I first d/l'ed the newest Catalyst drivers from ATI, then proceeded to obtain some Windows updates I had missed. I get everything installed and go to reboot.
Now the machine gets past the initial loading screen and reboots. This happens every time so I decided to reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, Windows refuses to install properly. First it was a couple of files that wouldn't copy over during "Registering Components." This would cause device manager to crash. Subsequent reinstallation attempts (about a dozen of them) have yeilded everything from different files not copying over to total freezes during component registration.
The last attempt gave me the following BSOD error:
STOP: 0x00000051(0x0000000C, 0xC0000005, 0xBF946AC0, 0xBF946718) REGISTRY_ERROR
At this point I am clueless. I don't understand how it can go from working fine to not at all. There have been no power surges, lightning storms, unnatural trauma to the machine parts, etc. I don't believe there is a virus as the internet connection is unplugged and the hard drive has been formatted.
Any help, suggestions or solutions would be appreciated beyond belief. It would help me sleep again.
Thanks for reading my long post, please help if you can.
I have purchased the following components:
-- Tyan Motherboard (model s2662, Intel E7205 chipset)
-- Intel 3.06ghz 533 FSB CPU
-- (1) 184 pin 1gb PC2100 DDR Chip
-- ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb Video Card
I had planned on buying a nice hard drive, however being short on cash I purchased a cheaper one for now with the intent to upgrade. It is just a run-of-the-mill Western Digital 40gb Caviar drive (IDE).
OK, with all that being said I was able to get everything together and working just fine save for the following issues:
(1) BIOS would not recognize the hard drive (could not open boot sector to check for signature...however it works fine on machines at work), so I had to take the SCSI from my old machine and install on the new: Adaptec 29160 w/IBM 36gb drive.
(2) USB 2.0 drivers would cause Windows to somehow "lose" its connection w/ the keyboard and mouse. I declined to install them and I had no problems.
Other than the above two issues, there were no problems. All my software ran great (I am a 3-D artist and so therefore run graphics-intensive programs), games ran nice, etc. I stayed away from SP4, and stopped at SP3. I also had Norton Personal Firewall installed along with my cable connection to the internet. All of this lasted for about a week.
A particular game (Dark Age of Camelot) began crashing to the desktop often. I figured I might see if there were some windows updates I might need, as their tech support always says to "stay updated", so I first d/l'ed the newest Catalyst drivers from ATI, then proceeded to obtain some Windows updates I had missed. I get everything installed and go to reboot.
Now the machine gets past the initial loading screen and reboots. This happens every time so I decided to reinstall Windows. Unfortunately, Windows refuses to install properly. First it was a couple of files that wouldn't copy over during "Registering Components." This would cause device manager to crash. Subsequent reinstallation attempts (about a dozen of them) have yeilded everything from different files not copying over to total freezes during component registration.
The last attempt gave me the following BSOD error:
STOP: 0x00000051(0x0000000C, 0xC0000005, 0xBF946AC0, 0xBF946718) REGISTRY_ERROR
At this point I am clueless. I don't understand how it can go from working fine to not at all. There have been no power surges, lightning storms, unnatural trauma to the machine parts, etc. I don't believe there is a virus as the internet connection is unplugged and the hard drive has been formatted.
Any help, suggestions or solutions would be appreciated beyond belief. It would help me sleep again.
Thanks for reading my long post, please help if you can.
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Thanks for replying
The only jumper I know of is the Master, Slave, Cable Select one.
I did not remove it, however I tried it in all 3 positions. It failed to recognize any of them. I was able to get this message once in the Slave position:
Could not open boot sector to check for signature.
Thinking maybe the boot sector was damaged, I tried installing it on a machine at work. The work computer ran fine and booted fine with the drive.
I will add "removing" the jumper all together to my list of suggestions to try when I get home tonite.
The only jumper I know of is the Master, Slave, Cable Select one.
I did not remove it, however I tried it in all 3 positions. It failed to recognize any of them. I was able to get this message once in the Slave position:
Could not open boot sector to check for signature.
Thinking maybe the boot sector was damaged, I tried installing it on a machine at work. The work computer ran fine and booted fine with the drive.
I will add "removing" the jumper all together to my list of suggestions to try when I get home tonite.
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