Have a wierd comp problem....
2 - 3 months back there was a problem with the comp... suddenly one day the hard disk doesnt work properly... the windows load time increases drastically and sound breaks in games n other applns that have a lot of HDD read... reinstallin the OS did not help... finally swapping the IDE cables and IDE port solves the problem... check the following thread
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/weird-comp-problem-10189.html
Yesterday the same problem was there... Comp was working fine till the day before... yest there was a lot of hard disk reads, slow booting, sound cracks during gaming... i tried running hardisk benchmark in sisoft sandra and sandra did not open giving error... so tried uninstalling to reinstall and the comp restarted.... Then it did not login... when i enter the psswrd in logon screen it wud show desktop for 1 sec and then log off again automatically... tried 5 times to login then restarted the sys... it was fine... installed sisoft sandra and the benchmard hung... then checked for spyware and virus with latest definitions but there were none...
today morning i exchanged the IDE cable n IDE port of HDD with DVD writer and the comp works like charm.... now what cud this probs be due to??
My doubts are
1. IDE controller must be faulty
2. Chipset drivers that control the IDE controller should be corrupt...
what do u guys think?? and is there any software that wud help to check the health of XP... ie to check the working of all sys files... i know Drwatson is there but that is crap....
2 - 3 months back there was a problem with the comp... suddenly one day the hard disk doesnt work properly... the windows load time increases drastically and sound breaks in games n other applns that have a lot of HDD read... reinstallin the OS did not help... finally swapping the IDE cables and IDE port solves the problem... check the following thread
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/weird-comp-problem-10189.html
Yesterday the same problem was there... Comp was working fine till the day before... yest there was a lot of hard disk reads, slow booting, sound cracks during gaming... i tried running hardisk benchmark in sisoft sandra and sandra did not open giving error... so tried uninstalling to reinstall and the comp restarted.... Then it did not login... when i enter the psswrd in logon screen it wud show desktop for 1 sec and then log off again automatically... tried 5 times to login then restarted the sys... it was fine... installed sisoft sandra and the benchmard hung... then checked for spyware and virus with latest definitions but there were none...
today morning i exchanged the IDE cable n IDE port of HDD with DVD writer and the comp works like charm.... now what cud this probs be due to??
My doubts are
1. IDE controller must be faulty
2. Chipset drivers that control the IDE controller should be corrupt...
what do u guys think?? and is there any software that wud help to check the health of XP... ie to check the working of all sys files... i know Drwatson is there but that is crap....