Hello all,
In the last month I upgraded my PC with a new HDD new mother board and new PSU. All of these parts were installed by my friend who originally built my rig three and a half years ago.
The problem I have is that when I boot up it doesn't always make it past the BIOS screen, this morning I got this message 'A disk read error has occurred press ctrl + alt + delete". I did so and it booted fine.
These are my new parts.
MOBO: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G31M-ES2L
Bus Clock: 245 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FF 10/13/2009
HDD: WDC WD5002AALX-00J37A0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAYU9811258, rev 15.01H15.
My tech know how is very basic but things I have tried are making sure that usb devices like my external HD are not plugged in at boot up.
Lowering my clock speed BIOS from 2.00 ghz to 1.96.
Reseating my RAM.
My OS is windows XP Pro service pack 3.
Any suggestions welcome.
Cheers,
Neill
In the last month I upgraded my PC with a new HDD new mother board and new PSU. All of these parts were installed by my friend who originally built my rig three and a half years ago.
The problem I have is that when I boot up it doesn't always make it past the BIOS screen, this morning I got this message 'A disk read error has occurred press ctrl + alt + delete". I did so and it booted fine.
These are my new parts.
MOBO: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G31M-ES2L
Bus Clock: 245 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. FF 10/13/2009
HDD: WDC WD5002AALX-00J37A0 [Hard drive] (500.11 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAYU9811258, rev 15.01H15.
My tech know how is very basic but things I have tried are making sure that usb devices like my external HD are not plugged in at boot up.
Lowering my clock speed BIOS from 2.00 ghz to 1.96.
Reseating my RAM.
My OS is windows XP Pro service pack 3.
Any suggestions welcome.
Cheers,
Neill