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So, the last time you were here I was all excited about my new gaming machine coming…and arrive it did…finally, at about 6:30 p.m. on the 28th of May…about the time I expected it to arrive. The box was huge…weighing in at 60 lbs. due to the addition of a set of speakers and a UPS. But the case, oh my god, that is one bad piece of hardware folks. So, of course I unpacked it, checked out the insides giving it a once over to ensure no wires were just hanging or loose…etc… I get it all hooked up and slid into position and turn it on…first screen I see is the bios screen then a black screen saying windows was shutdown improperly do you want to enter safe mode, yada, yada, I select normal startup…there is the desktop…all new and shiny…of course I have to make user accounts for my wife and myself, so I do that, I proceed to install firefox and thunderbird…after about an hour the machine has already had 3 blue screens of death…saying it has a memory dump…so immediately I start thinking it might be a memory issue…nope… I do some research online and it starts to become apparent there is some sort of hard drive error. I have a single SATA drive installed, no RAID or anything, it is a Hitachi 500gb drive. I do a defrag on it that night then go to bed. I get up and it seems to be fine. No restarts or any BSOD.
I get home last night and attempt to install WoW…after 3 tries with drive errors I give up. I go to install 3D Mark 06 to give it a whirl…two tries and each time it comes up with a “CATOSTROPHIC” failure and isn’t installed…now I know I am a vista noob, but I did manage to turn off windows defender and the user account control…so I know that isn’t an issue.
This morning, I decide to run a full chkdsk on the drive, it was scanning the drive when I left for work this morning. If the issue is still there when I get home today I will be calling the dreaded tech support line and getting put on hold and whatever…but damn it, this is really annoying, I can’t even install a game…what the hell…any ideas would be welcome…but so far I am at a loss. Only thing I can think is get a new hard drive.
Responses to “Almost, but not quite..”
May 31st, 2008 at 8:05 am
Hey, thanks, yeah, i didn’t even know they made hard drives…but it came in the system, I am going to run this cd bootable program straight from hitachi, it says it can repair bad sectors…but it also means a complete format of the drive, if this doesn’t work then I will work with cyberpower to see what they can do for me…
May 31st, 2008 at 11:14 am
Hopefully they can do something. You paid out good money and you got something that didnt measure up. If they cant fix it, they have to replace it, UNLESS, they gave no warranty of any kind stating they would replace defective or broken parts.
So many companies dont state that they’ll fix or replace things, and it costs the consumer even MORE money for their lack of scruples.
I hope the cd bootable works for ya. Will check back with ya on it.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Hitachi drives suck. Hitachi = bullet fodder for my rifles.. lol
Some of those really big drives are a pain in the bisquits. I wouldnt run a Hitachi though, I’ve had nothing but bad experiences with them. Sounds to me like you got a drive with damaged sectors, I say make em replace it, with a drive from a different maker. Yes that means you’ll be down longer but it beats the dreaded BSOD anyday.