Comp Problems... Another Wipe?

[Readyakira 0]

Let me start off with my sys specs:

Mobo:MSI K8N_Neo4 Platnium

HDD1: ST380811AS

HDD2: ST380811AS

HDD3 IBM 80gb 7200rpm (not currently connected)

Vid Card: BFG 7800GT OC

Sound Card: Onboard 7.1 Audio

Network Card1 Onboard 10/100/1000

Network Card2 Onboard 10/100/1000

DVD_writer: Pioneer DVR 110D

Memory:1.0gb PC3200 running in Dual DDR

Processor: AMD Athlon64 3700+ Running at 2.21Ghz

keyboard: Dell Stock #RT7D20

Mouse: Kensington #72127

DirectX:9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

Windows XP Home (5.1 Build 2600)

The problem..... Random lockups, slow performance, wierd lag, and lately problems copying files....

I had tried a few different video cards (all same make/model) but there was no improvement. I originaly thought this to be network related until the file copy problem. Tried running a scan disk (xp version) and it got stuck on phase 4. So. upon looking further into it, windows is reporting in explorer that my c drive is 160GB with 96gb free and a D drive of 80gb with almost all used..... now that is funny being I have 2 identical 80GB drives. WTF!?!?!?!?!

[Mana 3,867]

Did you try wiping the video drivers (driver sweeper etc) and getting the latest beta ones from Nvidia?

[Rydawg 14]

Sounds liek corrupted HD ?

[silvio 0]

That sucks,hang ups are annoying.I got a nasty virus from a ps2 emulator torrent last night (even scanned it first) and getting rid of it caused my windows explorer to always close after startup.I dont have the xp disc anymore to fix the corrupted files but you would be suprised how you can do everything without windows explorer.

[Readyakira 0]

yeah lately I am getting alot of delayed write errors. I'll have to look at the event logs to see what they say. But windows reporting the wrong drive sizes scares me.

well, don't look good for my first HDD. this is in the event log

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D.

Actually I need to figure out which one is crashing.... But either way I will be re-installing windows (again)

so I will see you all when I get it back up

[Oww My Nose 19]

kinda sounds like it's trying to force the drives into a raid0 array (saying C: is 160GB, even though you have 2x80GB hard drives)

if that's what you're trying to do, then i'd suggest re-installing/installing the raid drivers for the motherboard

if not, then idk. try only having 1 hard drive to start, and see if that works.

[Readyakira 0]

thats what I am doing now.. I would rather ghost a drive then run a raid.... so I am installing on 1 drive then will install one of the others on the other sata controller and see if I can ghost to it.

[Mana 3,867]

2 80 gig drives that show up as 1 160? Yeah that's raid. Wonder if its software or hardware problem. Try getting the latest chipset drives for your motherboard from the manufacturers website and see if that fixes it.

[Readyakira 0]

Well, I think I have it figured out. After replacing the drives with 2 others, the problem was gone. Problem was that they were even smaller capacity so I needed a diff option. So I re-installed one with windows and the basics. Ran some simple programs for the week, and had no problems. Have since installed the other drive on the seperate raid controller. Thought it was a crashed drive at first as my bios didn't see it. Windows found it and installed the drivers. But it again came up as 160gb. So, I tried to recover some of the info off the drive and after a few days decided enough was enough. I sucked it in anf did a partition delete, low level format and a quick ntfs format. The drive so far is reporting properly and has done a 63gb file transfer. So, I have now got most of my most commonly used programs installed, and almost back in full speed.