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Computer issues - tech genius required :(
michelledancer
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20 August 2009
Since this has been going on for a year and nobody in the world seems to have a clue why, it's unlikely that I'll find answers here. However, I'm completely desperate, just about ready to cry, and if anyone does happen to be a techy sort you have no idea how much I would appreciate some input.
Apologies in advance, I don't really know the words for things so am just describing the problem as best I can.
The situation:
My PC works fine, until I try to do something really intensive like gaming. The whole machine will suddenly start to run very slow, and upon further investigation there will be an error in the event viewer thing. This error varies slightly but is usually one (or a combination of) the following:
"The driver detected a controller error on DeviceHarddisk0D."
"The device, DeviceIdeIdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period."
"An error was detected on device DeviceHarddisk0D during a paging operation."
Once this happens, the whole computer will run extremely slowly until restarted. Unfortunately, restarting it doesn't work. The first time, when starting back up, it'll stop and say "disk read error" and I have to ctrl-alt-delete to restart again. The second time it'll get further along, but just as Windows is loading it'll bluescreen and reset itself again so fast it's impossible to see what the bluescreen message is.
This cycle will repeat (disk read error, bluescreen, disk read error, bluescreen) until I turn the whole thing off, leave it for around 10mins, then turn it back on. Then it'll be back to running great until I try to play a game.
What we've tried replacing with no effect whatsoever:
I'm basically at the point where I'm so desperate, I'm just going to post this in every conceivable place online until someone comes up with a theory. Please, no matter how crazy it sounds, if you think you know why this might be happening feel free to share. I can't answer any particularly techy questions but I can relay them to Other Half who is much more knowledgeable on this stuff.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou, and sorry for the completely OT thread.
Apologies in advance, I don't really know the words for things so am just describing the problem as best I can.
The situation:
My PC works fine, until I try to do something really intensive like gaming. The whole machine will suddenly start to run very slow, and upon further investigation there will be an error in the event viewer thing. This error varies slightly but is usually one (or a combination of) the following:
"The driver detected a controller error on DeviceHarddisk0D."
"The device, DeviceIdeIdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period."
"An error was detected on device DeviceHarddisk0D during a paging operation."
Once this happens, the whole computer will run extremely slowly until restarted. Unfortunately, restarting it doesn't work. The first time, when starting back up, it'll stop and say "disk read error" and I have to ctrl-alt-delete to restart again. The second time it'll get further along, but just as Windows is loading it'll bluescreen and reset itself again so fast it's impossible to see what the bluescreen message is.
This cycle will repeat (disk read error, bluescreen, disk read error, bluescreen) until I turn the whole thing off, leave it for around 10mins, then turn it back on. Then it'll be back to running great until I try to play a game.
What we've tried replacing with no effect whatsoever:
- Hard drive (twice)
- Motherboard
- Processor
- Power supply
- RAM
- Graphics card
I'm basically at the point where I'm so desperate, I'm just going to post this in every conceivable place online until someone comes up with a theory. Please, no matter how crazy it sounds, if you think you know why this might be happening feel free to share. I can't answer any particularly techy questions but I can relay them to Other Half who is much more knowledgeable on this stuff.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou, and sorry for the completely OT thread.
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glebe digital
Messages count : 105Likes count : 2Registration : 21 December 2006Some questions:
1. How much Ram do you have.
2. Which game/s cause the problem to arise.
3. What OS are you on.
4. What are your virtual disk settings.
These might offer some clues.CGI Specialist - Contact in PM
Arc-uk
Messages count : 2Likes count : 0Registration : 6 May 2011Hullo,
The following comes with a couple of caveats:
1. First post, so I'm building a rep as it were, and attempting to be helpful to get off on the right foot.
2. I'm a mac guy and don't do Windows stuff, so software wise I'm not much use.
That aside, given the list of stuff you've replaced, there really isn't much left on the hardware side of things to look at, except maybe assemble all of the 'replacement' parts as a new machine..
The errors are I/O hard disc related it would seem, and loading up a game would be thrashing the drive, which would make sense. Are they 5400rpm or 7200rpm speeds? Bigger number = better.
Also, what did you do when you replaced the hard drives? If you restored all of the software from back up disks, you might have restored the problem back too.. If that was the case, it would be worth nuking (good ol' fashioned format with a random data write afterwards), and then going through the rigmarole of reinstalling everything by hand again.
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artlover
Messages count : 3Likes count : 0Registration : 25 April 2012It's a classic heat error of some sort - otherwise it wouldn't recur when you stress the system. Which would make it hardware, but you've replaced pretty much everything that could be broken. Perhaps you're maxing out your power draw when everything starts running hot & fast. Have you tried a bigger power supply, ie 1000W instead of 800W? - Contact in PM
Brian69
Messages count : 1Likes count : 0Registration : 20 March 2012Solid state drive
You might try using a solid state hard drive. They are much faster and don't over heat as easily. - Contact in PM
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