Hallo,
ich habe eben dieses Post ins Support Forum von Corsair gepostet. Daher auf englisch, aber vielleicht ist hier jemand mit den selben Problem oder mit einer Idee, was ich noch probieren kann. My PC sux!
Gruss,
Thorsten
http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=25576
Hi,
I bought a new PC in October 2003, with the following parts:
ABIT K7-MAX2 (now: KT4AV-L)
3* Corsair CMX512-2700LL
AMD Athlon 3000+
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (retail)
SATA IDE Drive (now: Maxtor IDE drive)
NEC DVD-1300A
52x IDE CD Reader
In addition, i bough a Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Soundcard (retail), but after installing i got heavy problems (instable system), so i removed the card some days later. I think it was a problem with the onboard Highpoint SATA controller and/or PCI latency time.
But the whole system did not run well since the day i bought it, WinXP Prof SP1 runs very slow, games hang up, the system needed some minutes (!) to start.
I have no clue about overclocking, I only want a working PC to do my job and play some games. But I read in some support forums and find a link to memtest86, wich i tryed out. Memtest found several problems with my ram, but after loading "fail safe defaults" in bios, memtest worked fine. But not my windows - crashes in games, slow booting, etc.
Some days ago, i noticed that some files on my system are corrupted. So i tried this out, and packed large files / directory structures with WinRAR and compared the files after that - WinRAR tells about many CRC-Errors in the files. Secondary, i tried to burn my data on CDs and DVDs, but got CRC errors too. Finaly, i got errors when trying to (re)install Software or games. The installers told me that specific files are not on the source medium, but they are. I copied the files to harddisk and compared them, that works. But the installers made the same problems, if i try to setup from harddisk or choose a different installation medium.
Now i did two steps - i bought a PCI SATA card, put them with the SATA Hard Drive above in my second PC - that works fine, i can access/compress/copy/burn my data with no CRC problems.
Second, I went to my hardware shop and demanded for a stable mainboard without SATA controller on board. I buyed the MSI-board KT4AV-L and a maxtor IDE-drive and put this in my "problematic" PC.
Now, I ready get errors when i try to install windows. Sometimes, windows XP setup hands direct after booting (before windows setup start to load drivers for storage media etc). Only the blue screen with "Windows Setup" appears, nothing more happens. If i reboot sometimes, i can start the installation. During the setup process, when windows copies the files to harddisk, i get error messages that some files cant be copied. This appears always, no matter if i install from my CD-ROM or the NEC DVD burner.
So, i removed all cards and put a very old graphic adapter in (any working else geforce 1 graphic card), but that wont help. So i think, the Problem could only be the processor, the ram or one of the ide devices (but if thats the problem, one of the ide device has to interfear the ide bus, so the other ide device cant work proberbly again).
I removed my athlon processor and put a working athlon 800 from a other pc, did a cmos-reset - same problems with this processor.
I did memtest86 again, i got memory erros when all 3 modules are on the board. So I did memtest86 three times with each module alone, one module made problems. I put this memory modules byside, but with 2 modules i got the same problems again.
Now, I am trying to install windows with only one module. Until now, it looks good, but I dont trust it at the moment.
I am totaly frustated and short before throwing my pc out of the window. I hope anyone here can help me.
Thank you!
Thorsten