the missus computer i built her late last year is giving me a******s

it's never been properly stable since i put it together little crashing here and there, eventually it packed it in just before easter turns out it had one of the dodgey seagate hard drives, it kept on getting more and more bad sectors. so last week we bought her a new 500gb western digital, and i'm going to get the seagate warrantied and score myself a 500gb hdd :D

anyway a bit over a week later (yesterday) i'm doing an assignment and i get a BSOD and now it's just won't boot, it gets to the windows loading screen with the little bar loading and then a BSOD flashing up for a millisecond and then reboots.

today i brought the WD home and put it in my computer and before it boost it runs a check disk and has files and s*** it deletes and it now has 4kb of bad sectors... which i learned only gets worse

last night i checked the ram in her computer with windows memory tester, and got some errors sometimes here and there.. fyi

plz help

warranty up the ram and the new hard drive. everything should be sweet after that. end of story.

ps was there a yardie with a brasier on at your mrs house last night? or was that the house next door?

last edited by MrHardware at 11:47:36 19/Apr/09

so bad ram can f*** with a hard drive?


i don't live with her, geebung is parents place

bad ram can screw up your file system, but i don't really think it can create physical problems, ie bad sectors. it's entirely possible, however, that you have a dodgy motherboard or more likely PSU that is shooting out all sorts of weird voltages which are affecting the other components.

oh ok.

last edited by MrHardware at 12:04:02 19/Apr/09

I was getting random blue screens and reseated the RAM in different slots and the problem went away.

any errors full stop on a memtester is bad news:

get some new ram and see how she goes;

This is just paveway's subtle way of telling us he has a girlfriend so you'll all stop hinting he's gay for maxe. Don't fall for his trickery.

i thought maxe was gay for nf?

no, maxe is gay for maxe

PSU. Get a new one.

it's a gay love triangle.

PSU. Get a new one.

plz explain

I've personally had ram memtest failures and random pc crashes until I swapped out the PSU. At the time it was the last thing I thought of. Lesson painfully learnt. Two of my friends have had pc crashes and hdd failures - both times it turned out to be their PSUs.

You won't be able to magically fix the HDD, but if you have two pcs, swap out the PSU and run memtest - if you no longer get errors, you've confirmed the PSU as the fault.

bad ran makes me cringe, so does hdd's... warranty that shizzle...

power problems can cause all sorts of issues, your power supply should always be bigger than you need so its not running a high duty cycle
same principal as using an aircon in a room thats too big for it

it'll run longer and harder than it was designed too