Windows XP

Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D
Western Digital 250gig SATAII drive
GeForce 7800GT video card
OCZ gold series 2x512 ram

I have had a computer that I built myself for several months that was stable. I recently decided to upgrade from an older 80 gig IDE hard drive to a SATAII. Installed a fresh copy of windows onto it... Then I started to notice problems.

Blue screens of death. BAD_POOL_HEADER was one I saw when the screen stayed up long enough for me to see.

Tried installing new drivers to see if that was a problem, but didn't really notice a difference. After a couple weeks the problem of blue screens stopped.

Then a little while after that I suddenly started having stability issues. The computer would suddenly cut out. Seemed to happen a lot with firefox... Not really sure, but probably not since a new problem occured.

I was plaing WoW and suddenly the computer froze. The moniter speakers came on and made noise like a radio with bad reception makes. I don't use the monitor speakers. I have a small 2 speaker set I use.

I tried rebooting after the freeze and the computer would go through the normal steps in booting. The windows logo with black background would appear, the one with the moving bar near the bottom middle. Then it would go to the windows logo screen with a blue background right before asking for the password. Only nothing would appear. Just a blue windows logo screen with the two lines at the top and bottom. I retried loading several times (including trying safe mode) but it would ALWAYS get stuck at this point.

One time when I tried to bottom I got an error on boot up saying Read Disk Error, but never got it again.

Any ideas on what the problem is? Thanks for the help.

5/2/2006 11:30:58 AM

well since you upgraded the hard drive, i'd say to check that first. western digital should offer a program to check it, you'll need a dos boot disk.

5/2/2006 12:14:03 PM