Disc failure

Today my network stopped working and I don’t get any PI WU´s for about 19 hours. I had to restart both the modem and router and after that my AMD Athlon 1001 shouted down and restarted due to a serious failure. I got the network to work again and then I discovered my
AMD64 had got down and both led lamps shined (only one will shine when working). It was trying restarting itself but failed. I restart the computer but when it had come halfway it shouted down again. I decide to shout it down and wait. After an half an hour I started it up again and come to the page where I could start it in the wrong secure situation. It didn’t work and once again I restarted the PC. This time it ran Chkdsk and I got a lot of messages such: “The file post segment 100301 is impossible read” and showed many different numbers
Then I got a message such this: “Remove remaining file post segments.” I also got other messages as I not could write down because the length. When Chkdsk was finished the wrong block contained the file (loLogMsg.dll) was renamed or removed because I not could localise it. I had got this file already 23/3 and I don’t know what it is. The AMD64 is only a cruncher and I have a few times used it for Internet.
Now when I restarted it again Chkdsk begin work again and removed many wrong blocks and after that the CPU didn’t start up properly only use to restart and restart again. It works halfway during the startup process and then try restart again. I checked Bios setup but there was no message about what was wrong.:eusa_wall:

Should I reinstall Windows again or it is something wrong with the disc? I think if I must buy a new disc I yet must install WIN XP. Now I have only 2 cores at PI. What do you guys think? :(

There is a disadvantage for me because I don´t can hear if there is a bad sound from the disc nor can I feel of it holding my hands on the box. I can only feel of the bass tone not the treble tone.

If it were me I'd start with a new HDD and after all was well I'd try to sort that 1 out... Just my opinion...

Symptoms do point to a hard drive problem. Can you get to Safe Mode on re-starting (press F8 key during post) or does it always re-boot during the startup sequence?

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Originally Posted by vaughan

Symptoms do point to a hard drive problem. Can you get to Safe Mode on re-starting (press F8 key during post) or does it always re-boot during the startup sequence?

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No Vaughan, I have tried but it didn´t work. I only get the picture where i should press "DEL" to get to the BIOS or "TAB" as check the memorys and there is nothing wrong wth the memory. I know I should press PF10 to launch the Safe Mode but it wouldn´t work.:icon_wink:

I'd get a new hard disc installed in it, they're cheap enough.

It sounds like a Hard Disc to me too, you can try & re-install Windows but if the Disc is bad it won't install verifying the Disc is bad.

When that happens to me I use the "suspect" disk as a second/third and get a new boot disk

I agree with everyone else, new hdd first then further diagnosis. Hopefully it's just the HDD rather than some weird IDE/RAID issue.

Lagu,
I had the exact same thing happen to my 4800 last night. Once I figured out it was the drive I unpluged it and it came right up. One of my raid drives went belly up and it would get right to the point of Windoz starting a restart.

I dont have any raid but I have prepare for one. The only I need is to buy a second disc and install the software:icon_wink:

If I have problems I like to use a livecd of ubuntu. I boot from the cd and do a memtest on the system to make sure its stable. It does let you check the system before you buy a hard drive if you dont have an extra laying around. It may be a good time to try diskless if you dont use the machine for other things.

Thank you guys. I tried reinstall XP but it stalled during the startup. I have searced for Antivirus using diskettes and the whole test went well. Have to take it to my reseller and perhaps buy a Seagate 80 GB if needed.

Lagu

Poor me, it is a little chaos here now. There was nothing wrong with the Maxtor disc. Instead it was WIN XP as had flipped out and lost the control. I was thinking reinstall the OP myself but as an amateur as I’m I failed when I come to DOS. When I should write my letters was another than I thought it should be. When I should write / I got > instead and I didn’t know how I should change the PROMPT.

I ran to my reseller as reinstalled the OS and when I got it home I move the antivirus programme from Intel to AMD. Then I moved over Whatpulse and started it up. To my surprise my account was “puts väck” IE gone.

The account was on AMD and when I tried creating a new account I had forgot all data. I have done some “laboratory work” and what happen? 358,827 keystrokes and 118.226 clicks is impossible Pulse. I have destroyed all and I’m so angry on myself.:cussing: I discovered too late I should be more careful.

Boinc, F@H, D20L, TKC and all what it is named gone. My favourites and so on. Damn I had not take any backup of all Boinc project but I have much of them on Intel. I bought a 1GB memory stick for copy and paste large files. I had one at 215 MB as had too little capacity.:(

Once I had got my Antivirus running I copy and paste the exe file of PI Segment’s and started it up on AMD so now it is running with fire on its backside. Maybe I need a fire-extinguisher?:icon_lol:

I also bought 10 diskettes because I have make backups for my Antivirus. I had to choose among diskettes and CD/DVD rom to create a backup. I didn’t use CD/DVD for only ca 15 MB.:icon_wink:

A trust is that I know you all have the same experience but perhaps you have been more foresighted. :)

Hi Lagu,
I'm glad you have your computer working again. Everyone has experienced your problem, or something like that. And very few are prepared for it.

I'm just glad you are fine. A software problem is ok, just some mild panic for a couple of hours before you get it fixed.

I have too many times... I'm glad you got it fixed...