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I just recently installed a new graphics card into one of my computers, and some weird shit started to happen.
The computer:
Dell Dimension 8300 - 2 years old.
2.8 ghz p4
some intel motherboard
512 RAM (I believe coursair, but not sure :cuss: )
Graphics card -- Used to be a Intel pos, but I bought a ATI x700 Pro from Fry's (not OC'd btw)
2 hard drives(will be explained in the problem), one new Seagate 160 gig ATA(primary master), one 14 gig IBM about 5 years old(primary slave)
The Problem:
About 2 months after the graphics card was installed(no probs or anything), my hard drive failed(as in making clicking noises). No big problem, it just had some games that i didnt play much. It was the original HD that came with the dell btw--was 120 gig Hitachi ATA. Thus, i went and bought a new HD, that being the 160 gig Seagate. I installed the windows that came w/ my PC (XP home w/ SP1) and all goes smoothly.
Now the problems start.I do some stupid shit like trying to do a virtual partition, setting off 15 gig for a linux partition to play with. The hard drive gets fucked up, so I stay patient and reinstall windows xp. I still want linux, so i strip the IBM 14 gig harddrive from some old comp i have and set it as the slave (through a few hours of trial and error). Everything works for about a day. The computer stays on all night. I wake up the next morning and the thing just goes bitch ass slow. I do a few things online (like check email). Then I restart the pc because of the real slowness(its not a process, im pretty sure). It starts up.
The computer tries to load windows, but has a "corrupted file" or some shit. I spend a few hours on it, and I eventually install everything again. The same problem happens. Another day passes and I check the HD for problems. It has a few bad sectors, and i fix those and do a low level format. It should be fixed I guess. Same shit happens a 6th time(i tried a few things, nothing helped). This ends my week.
I end up asking my dad, who is a low level OS programmer for his own business, and he suggests a few things. That was to see if my bios was not compatible w/ the size of the HD. That is not the case(its the latest version, and it sees it as a 160 gig hd). But i do end up finding about how windows dont like the hds over 127 gig, so i partition, leaving a huge partition open. It installs fine, but I end up having problems with growing the partition after updates. XP can supposedly support my HD size if it has SP1 i believe. Thus, i get a lil pissed about spending over 24 hours on one problem, and figure out that what i was doing again is doing nothing. I try to grow the HD, but a few problems make it mess again.
Note: Linux was working on my old IBM hd fine, but this computer is a family one(im 15), and My family does not know how to use Linux, and a few family members basically cant learn(as in Windows was too complicated, let alone linux). The hd is having a problem now too. The seagate diag's not allowing the fuckin thing to boot, and is trying to do a Dynamic Drive Overlay, or w/e the hell that is. I try to reinstall Linux on the thing, and the same problem happens. Now BOTH Hds dont work for no reason.
Help WILL be appreciated.
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