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PostPosted: Fri Jan 14, 2011 11:18 pm    Post subject: Windows Freezing Reply with quote

Hello,

I'm having a problem and any advice or insight would be appreciated. I recently bought a 2 TB hardrive for storage and installed it on my windows XP Home computer. I installed it and had it formatted no problem, I even completed backing up all my files to the new drive. Now however, when I start XP it gets to the loading screen with the blue bar and hangs or freezes at the same place nearly every time. I say nearly every time because randomly it will finish loading sometimes, probably 1/20.

When I attempt to open the computer in safe mode it freezes at the sys.mup screen. To find out the problem I tried starting the computer with each of my sticks of ram individually to see if that was the problem, and it wasn't, and then I tried unplugging the new harddrive from the mobo. With only the main drive on, the computer started fine, with no problems. When i replugged the secondary harddive windows hangs again. Any thoughts?

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Chris
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:02 pm    Post subject: Hi Reply with quote

what kind of windows is installed on your pc?
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Windows XP Home
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm... so

It seems it could be a bios mobo problem, a physical damage problem or a windows xp home problem.

Anyone have any thoughts or able to narrow this down?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is this a SATA drive?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes it is, internal
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

HI!

hmmm.. i also thinks its with the motherboard...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 5:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would update your SATA controller drivers first. Have you tried that?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would check for any latest version of BIOS and then go for the latest device drivers, if any!
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,
I want to suggest you .....check your system hardware it may be problem in your mother boards. Otherwise In your system RAM stick...!
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