My compy is dead! Oh, God, please help!

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Phoenix

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So. As of yesterday I'm in the posession of an overly priced paperweight. I experienced problems with XP crashing, a long time after I had gotten the OC stable as a rock (or at least me and Orthos thought), so I decided to clock it (Q6600) down from 3,375GHz to 3.0GHz, and setting the voltage to auto for the time being, and see how it would go down. And in fact, it went down, in the sense that it decided to never wake up again. Now, the PC POST's and everything seems fine, until it's trying to load Windows, then black (or a darker shade of gray). So I went to bed, being
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ed off like a MF, and thought I would try again today. And indeed I did. Now, the first thing I could think of, was to try to reload BIOS defaults, and just try to see if it would boot up normally, but no. And then, I went to download a new BIOS for my mobo, flashed with the new one, and still, nothing happened. Then, after taking a more thorough look in the BIOS, it catched my eye that the Samsung 250gig S-ATA-drive Windows is on, did not list as being on the top of the Harddrive-list (this is me trying to think logically when I'm
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ed and depressed at the same time, even though I hadn't got a NTLRD missing-message). So I fix this, just for the desperate attempt of it, and still nothing.

So now I turn to you, fellow addicts of that little box of joys and horrors, to get your opinion on this dreadful matter? What am I supposed to do? Just throw it out for the stray dogs to play with? Read a book? Spend quality time with my lady? PLEASE, HELP ME, I'M SUFFOCATING!

Okay, enough of the melodrama. Any advice would be nice though.

Btw, I updated the BIOS for 0802 to 1001. See signature for specs. ;)
 
Seems a bit odd though, the harddrive is only a few months old. Though it is a Samsung (Western Digital FTW), I can't believe it's THAT crappy. :( And by the way, shouldn't the SMART-scan at POST pick up these things?
 
Is S.M.A.R.T enabled?

Well if it isn't and you have it plugged in all correct, it must be the harddrive.

You have changed the bios. At the moment everything points to the harddrive.

You might just have been unlucky. And yeah, Western Digital FTW. ;)
 
Maybe I should take the HDD out and stick it in this PC, and run some diagnostics. And I who just deleted all my HDD-recovery-tools...Crap! And btw, the Samsung was a gift from work...Cheap
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s. :P
 
name='Phoenix' said:
Seems a bit odd though, the harddrive is only a few months old. Though it is a Samsung (Western Digital FTW), I can't believe it's THAT crappy. :( And by the way, shouldn't the SMART-scan at POST pick up these things?
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SMART isn't very.....smart. It can only really estimate the death of a hard disk judging by its degradation over time. If the disk decides to go nipples up over night, it's got about as much idea of what's going on as you :)
 
Oh. Well, that's...smart (pun intended) :P Anyway, I've ripped that sonofa out and I guess I'll be trying to run some diagnostics on it now, or at least try to save some of my oh so valuable data (u know, mp3s'n'stuff). :P Thanks for the help so far, I'll post back if that's not the problem and I need some instructions on how to tie a slipknot. ;)
 
Yeah smart `can` clock up errors in it`s records when you have a memory problem.

Testing in another pc is the best thing. But even so - back everything up off it - then reformat the thing b4 running testing tools. Otherwize some correctable existing filesystem errors will give u false impressions.

Saying that, hard drives do die from time to time, within weeks. Rare, but it happens - all manufacturers.
 
/me hugs his 9 year old 100GB WD-HDD. Some disks never die, though. ;) Now, I'm running some diagnostics on it (the Samsung), and it doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it. I can access all the data on it and everything seems jolly fine. So I really don't know.
 
mobo problem then maybe?have you checked around to see if the mobo is causing this error to other people(asus forums)?
 
Try the trusty 9 year old in your pc? atleast it will narrow it down. *made a stupid comment, as i didnt read your post properly*

Well try taking most of the ram out, one of the cards, booting into safe mode?
 
I've had this self same problem a couple of times and it was Windows that was dead.

Have you tried booting from your Windows disk and repairing the installation?

On mine, it was NTLDR that was gone but I got no message (Asus P5K Premium mobo and Samsung SP250 HDD).
 
Oh, I've forgot about this thread. :P Nope, it was just me doing an übernoobish mistake. I planned on clearing the CMOS when it happened, but I got caught up with something else, and the next day I thought I had done it. So I was in panic, while I never tried clearing it, so when I finally did it, everything was back to normal. :P
 
Yeah, can't argue with that, but the fact that I didn't do it at first really made me feel like a moron. :P All this fuzz with taking out the harddrive and testing it in my other computer, for nothing (well, with the exeption of a fresh new BIOS and some new copied stuff to my old PC). :P
 
I remember that day when me seagate barracuda died, that terrible noise (like a spring being shot across the room) and then the silence from a non working computer. All of this the day it was meant to be sold. lmfao

Hope you find the problem. Im just about to send my motherboard off for RMA as its decided to not work correctly so im in the same boat.

How is your warranty looking? any chance of getting a new one sent to you for free??
 
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