Shoutbox

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Originally posted by Sunshine
Remains one problem if i was to do that. All HDDs in this PC are completely NTFS and the second computer i could use runs on WinME, so it won't recognize NTFS disks (blah i regret setting the first partition on my second HD to NTFS instead of Fat32 now). There's also no way i could get WinXP to run on my second computer as it doesn't meet the specs...

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On the website http://bootdisk.com Under the bootdisk section there is a startup disk called ReadNTFS now I think this will let you copy files in DOS even from an NTFS partition.

If the hard drive doesn't feel like responding properly, it could very well crash the bios or even the operating system if it tries to access it, so that could be the problem.

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Originally posted by Sunshine
if one stick is faulty i got 256 of 512 left)? If my RAM is to blame why does it still say i got 512 when i go to system?

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Depending on the state of the RAM, faulty RAM can be detected normally, but when it is used, parts of it won't work. It's like having a car, but if you get hot, the air conditioning doesn't work, you wouldn't have noticed just by checking that the car was there.

* rav0 waits for CookieRevised to explain the POST RAM test

Ok, some more testing done.

Today i disconnected the fan on the HD rack, all booted up fine so it seems like this was the culprit (maybe the fan broke, i didn't look at that). Comp looks a bit slow, but that might be just me.

For those interested in looking at my comp, here are some pictures:
Inside
Frontside

My guess is that the HD cooler fan was drawing too much power at startup (from a cold boot), but when you warm booted, residue charge somewhere let the computer start normally. (this is something like where I remembered reading abot residual charge before)

It's only a 300 W PSU, and you have two hard disks, so that may have been the cause, but I don't know the ratings of everything, I just know that by comparison 300 W is weak, but maybe the fan is just faulty and drawing too much current.

PS now I wish I had a (decent) digital camera again .

PPS it looks like the exhaust fan is starving the CPU fan (pm me for more info).

PPPS that's a cool CPU heatsink.

PPPPS the northbridge heatsink at an angle looks cool as well.

PPPPPS mmm ... red mobo

PPPPPPS lots of PSs in this post