Mindless-Moron
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hello all,
For the past month of so i've been experiencing some really weird happenings with regard to my hard disks. basically files are corrupting quite reguarly, most readily apparent in video files etc, where parts of audio/video just become missing cut off etc. When in windows a little disk read error dialog is displayed in the task bar reffering to one of the drives.
my system
p4 prescott (skt478 version) 3.2 @stock, if i overclock comp starts crashing after about 2 weeks of being overclocked, have to gradually reduce clocks until i get back to stock and its fine. current cooler zalman 9500, previous cooler coolermaster hyper 6 with ystech 80mm fan
asus p4c800-e deluxe, no mods.
1gig corsair 3500bh5 ram (2*512) cooled by nexus 92mm fan @12v positionedo ver them using the mobtherboard riser trick
connect3d x800xt 256, @530/530 zalman vf700cu cooling it
augigy 2 ZS
seasonic 500w.
xp pro
I have 5 hdd's (now 4 one died, one is brand new no problems yet)
2 maxtor diamond max 10 300gb sata II drives, one on the motherboards promise controller one on the intel southbridge controler, both are having problems, the one on the promise controller is the boot drive, significant increase in boot times (2-3 minutes sometimes, up from 30 seconds) even with other hdd's unplugged, second one on the southbridge's controller sometimes comes with the read error, and fails to show up in my computer only sometimes tho
1 200gb WD caviar se Sata (NOT sata 2) 8 meg cache, this recently died for no apparent reason, had always been my most reliable disk, it did die on the hottest day of the year tho, but all drives are in silentmax aluminium silencers/heatsinks, they are also grounded)
1 western digital sata 2 320gb 16meg cache (the new super quiet one, so far works fine, however it does have about 80gigs worth of space reserved for some reason, when i go into disk defragmentor, however, i belvie this to be because i was exceptional drunk while using norton partition magic and having absolutly no idea what was going on.
1 maxtor diamond max 9 sata 8meg cahce, in an external icybox enclosure, rarely used or turned on zero problems.
now i have no idea why files are corrupting, hdd's getting read write errors, i've tried changing all the cables, to no effect, run them while not in the silentmaxx enclosures, nothing, i should tell you though, i have installed 2 dubious programs, the battlefield 2142 2nd beta, which really really hurt my hard disk, after installign it and letting it load a map (which took 30minutes) it was making very very evil and nasty noises and X3 reunion, which uses starforce copy protection, and i've heard rumors that starforce screws up hard disks. i have no spyware/viruses etc.
now i've spoken with people i know, and like me they're lost to see where the problem is, i'm on my third motherboard (all rma replacements of hte same board) since it has twice before died for no apparent reason, could it be that which is causing some of the problems?
please any help would be much appreciated.
For the past month of so i've been experiencing some really weird happenings with regard to my hard disks. basically files are corrupting quite reguarly, most readily apparent in video files etc, where parts of audio/video just become missing cut off etc. When in windows a little disk read error dialog is displayed in the task bar reffering to one of the drives.
my system
p4 prescott (skt478 version) 3.2 @stock, if i overclock comp starts crashing after about 2 weeks of being overclocked, have to gradually reduce clocks until i get back to stock and its fine. current cooler zalman 9500, previous cooler coolermaster hyper 6 with ystech 80mm fan
asus p4c800-e deluxe, no mods.
1gig corsair 3500bh5 ram (2*512) cooled by nexus 92mm fan @12v positionedo ver them using the mobtherboard riser trick
connect3d x800xt 256, @530/530 zalman vf700cu cooling it
augigy 2 ZS
seasonic 500w.
xp pro
I have 5 hdd's (now 4 one died, one is brand new no problems yet)
2 maxtor diamond max 10 300gb sata II drives, one on the motherboards promise controller one on the intel southbridge controler, both are having problems, the one on the promise controller is the boot drive, significant increase in boot times (2-3 minutes sometimes, up from 30 seconds) even with other hdd's unplugged, second one on the southbridge's controller sometimes comes with the read error, and fails to show up in my computer only sometimes tho
1 200gb WD caviar se Sata (NOT sata 2) 8 meg cache, this recently died for no apparent reason, had always been my most reliable disk, it did die on the hottest day of the year tho, but all drives are in silentmax aluminium silencers/heatsinks, they are also grounded)
1 western digital sata 2 320gb 16meg cache (the new super quiet one, so far works fine, however it does have about 80gigs worth of space reserved for some reason, when i go into disk defragmentor, however, i belvie this to be because i was exceptional drunk while using norton partition magic and having absolutly no idea what was going on.
1 maxtor diamond max 9 sata 8meg cahce, in an external icybox enclosure, rarely used or turned on zero problems.
now i have no idea why files are corrupting, hdd's getting read write errors, i've tried changing all the cables, to no effect, run them while not in the silentmaxx enclosures, nothing, i should tell you though, i have installed 2 dubious programs, the battlefield 2142 2nd beta, which really really hurt my hard disk, after installign it and letting it load a map (which took 30minutes) it was making very very evil and nasty noises and X3 reunion, which uses starforce copy protection, and i've heard rumors that starforce screws up hard disks. i have no spyware/viruses etc.
now i've spoken with people i know, and like me they're lost to see where the problem is, i'm on my third motherboard (all rma replacements of hte same board) since it has twice before died for no apparent reason, could it be that which is causing some of the problems?
please any help would be much appreciated.
