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Jared Scott
alright, so lets get to it, BTW -- thanks to anyone that replies --
the machine i have is(was) running windows xp recently upgraded to
SP2. It had 384 megs of pc2100 ram, recently upgraded to pc2700 (512
megs). the motherboard supports both speeds. i have to CD-ROM drives,
one DVD 16X Liteon, and one 48X-12X-40X CDR/RW Justlink. just recently
(at the same time i upgraded the RAM) i installed a PCI USB 2.0
expansion card.
starting at the beginning, (before i upgraded any componets on my
system) i was running WIN XPSP2 without getting any errors or hitches.
I decided to Reformat my C: (i have two partitions on one hard drive,
plus one other hard drive) and reinstall windows because i was
starting to get alot of lag, and defragging and cleaning the registry
was not helping it out. also my other hard drive (a 30 gig)
spontaneously lost its Partition information, thus i could not access
any of the files on the drive. when i put in the XP cd (basic original
installation, pre XPSP1), it worked fine until it came to copying the
files, in which it would give me numerous errors bad file errors.
thinking it was my drive, i tried my other drive (my Burner), with the
same results. at this point i began to believe it was the CD, so i
borrowed my friends WINXP CD, but i got the errors (bad file errors).
after a couple of days of this, i ended up getting it to finally work
once by keeping on retrying until the files would copy (i am starting
to think it is my IDE cable, but it is a fairly new cable that hasnt
been handled, and has worked just fine up till now), once i got into
windows and got it working properly, i installed XPSP2 and all the
updates. after this, my new RAM and USB 2.0 card arrived, which i
installed. when i booted up my computer, the RAM seemed to be fine,
and windows booted. when i got into windows tho, i noticed that it did
not automatically see the USB expansion card. i tried a bevy of
different solutions, none which worked. when i decided to restart my
computer to see if that would do it, my windows partition had somehow
become corrupted! finally i pulled out the USB card and looked at the
it and noticed that one of circuits had blown. that was pretty crappy.
i took the card out and tried booting from the CD, and now all i
encounter are freezups, disk read errors, and blue screens either
saying, "Bad pool Caller", or "Page fault in Non Paged Area". i know
the latter refers to my memory, but i dont know what the former refers
to.
so a short list of things i think are wrong with my computer
1)Bad RAM
2)Bad CD IDE Cable
3)possible damaged motherboard from circuit blown on USB exp. card?
4)corrupted hard drive(s)
i would like to know if this diagnosis seems to be correct in any way,
and what would be my best, and cheapest, course of action?
THANK YOU AGAIN, for reading this, and i value all your comments that
you can spare
the machine i have is(was) running windows xp recently upgraded to
SP2. It had 384 megs of pc2100 ram, recently upgraded to pc2700 (512
megs). the motherboard supports both speeds. i have to CD-ROM drives,
one DVD 16X Liteon, and one 48X-12X-40X CDR/RW Justlink. just recently
(at the same time i upgraded the RAM) i installed a PCI USB 2.0
expansion card.
starting at the beginning, (before i upgraded any componets on my
system) i was running WIN XPSP2 without getting any errors or hitches.
I decided to Reformat my C: (i have two partitions on one hard drive,
plus one other hard drive) and reinstall windows because i was
starting to get alot of lag, and defragging and cleaning the registry
was not helping it out. also my other hard drive (a 30 gig)
spontaneously lost its Partition information, thus i could not access
any of the files on the drive. when i put in the XP cd (basic original
installation, pre XPSP1), it worked fine until it came to copying the
files, in which it would give me numerous errors bad file errors.
thinking it was my drive, i tried my other drive (my Burner), with the
same results. at this point i began to believe it was the CD, so i
borrowed my friends WINXP CD, but i got the errors (bad file errors).
after a couple of days of this, i ended up getting it to finally work
once by keeping on retrying until the files would copy (i am starting
to think it is my IDE cable, but it is a fairly new cable that hasnt
been handled, and has worked just fine up till now), once i got into
windows and got it working properly, i installed XPSP2 and all the
updates. after this, my new RAM and USB 2.0 card arrived, which i
installed. when i booted up my computer, the RAM seemed to be fine,
and windows booted. when i got into windows tho, i noticed that it did
not automatically see the USB expansion card. i tried a bevy of
different solutions, none which worked. when i decided to restart my
computer to see if that would do it, my windows partition had somehow
become corrupted! finally i pulled out the USB card and looked at the
it and noticed that one of circuits had blown. that was pretty crappy.
i took the card out and tried booting from the CD, and now all i
encounter are freezups, disk read errors, and blue screens either
saying, "Bad pool Caller", or "Page fault in Non Paged Area". i know
the latter refers to my memory, but i dont know what the former refers
to.
so a short list of things i think are wrong with my computer
1)Bad RAM
2)Bad CD IDE Cable
3)possible damaged motherboard from circuit blown on USB exp. card?
4)corrupted hard drive(s)
i would like to know if this diagnosis seems to be correct in any way,
and what would be my best, and cheapest, course of action?
THANK YOU AGAIN, for reading this, and i value all your comments that
you can spare