Thanks for the link :) I did their test and it says that I should use a minimum of a 307w PSU. I guess I must be pretty close to maxed out....but...
Anyone? :) I have also swopped out the "bad" hard drive for a spare 40gb one I had in another machine...so hopefully this will confirm whether...
hmm i don't know - my psu isn't in that list, but Antec PSU's are well respected and known (i've read a few threads with people discussing them)....
agreed, I would love to get the bottom of this.... I decided to change the IDE cable (as you mentioned) and I made sure that the master was at...
thanks :) a friend actually gave me this drive as he had it spare...and since removing it i've had no problems. My suspicion is that he had probs...
Well, i think most people abandoned this thread now lol...but for those that are interested ;) I think I have found the root cause...this is crazy...
Just an addition: Could this be something simpler? usb perhaps? I do have front usb ports on my case that I use quite regularly....I wonder if...
Bad news :(:( I got the new 2 x 512 ram sticks yesterday and swopped them for my old ones (that memtest confirmed had errors). All was fine for...
I think its most likely the ram - the reviews i read on ebuyer.com of Kingston valueram are quite mixed (mostly good, but a few people reported...
Thanks all :) The ram I had was 2 x 512mb DDR PC3200 400mhz Kingston ram. I think however that it was from their "value" range - and although...
Thank you! You are quite right, and that memtest tool is superb. I performed the tests and found about 100+ errors in 2 sweeps of the tests,...
Hi all, I have a hardware related issue - but I am unsure of even where to begin looking to find the problem, so I was hoping someone might be...
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