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[stefan]

so i get a new 22" lcd monitor and everything is great. after 5 days my position of the screen on the lcd is fucked up so i restart my computer. nothings fixed except after around 2 minutes my computer freezes. nothing works,clock,ctrl alt del, not even mouse. so i reformat my whole hdd, and install a fresh version of windows and i use my previous montir (one before the 22")and windows freezes agian. so now i believe it's not windows but hardware. i try linux too and it works for about 20-40 minutes then fucks up. i've tried switching out the ram too. my specs are

cpu:amd athlon 2800+
ram:kingston and tried crucial
video card:asus radeon 128mg 9200se

I used Gparted (linux live cd for partition management) and it showed the windows partition having errors and something with clusters, and it said to do chkdsk /f then restart 2 times. so i did the following then ran gparted agian. gparted then showed the same thing. for some reason when using gparted nothing messes up, but it's only been running for like 2 minutes.


can anyone help? thanks -stefan

[Gargar]

Hard drive is fried?

[dolphinbomb]

If there are still errors after a chkdsk, it's possible that your hard drive could be corrupted.

[stefan]

harddrive still had the errors. i read that symtoms of harddrive failure is slowness,having erros when moving,copying,deleting,etc files. i have none of those. i have another hdd, but i unhooked it because i have my media on it.
if i made a partition on the hdd with gparted then restarted and ran gparted agian and looked at the partition i made could i tell by that if the partition has a error then it's the hdd being corrupt? cause i don't really feel like trying to install windows on my other hdd, cause that means i have to put it back in my comp and i've installed windows about 4 times today for testing

i opened the case and placed a house fan inside, and now it seems to work

Edited by stefan, 18 March 2007 - 08:57 AM.

[CommonSenseless]

if it's not completely screwed, you might want to try to fix your HDD with a program called darik's boot nuke, google it. It like super formats everything 32 times and checks to make sure everything erased after each time.