RE: Hard drive knackered? (Again) Stop Error 000000x7b

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I have discovered something...

I have progressed to adding the second HDD and let it running for an hour.
No problems.
Next I decided to add the graphics card. Changed bios from onboard graphics
to card and windows crashed and switched off when it got to the "Starting
windows" screen. Um.

Changed back to onboard Graphics and the same thing happened, until I
removed the graphics card from the MB then windows booted ok and is running
now.
It was strange though as it did start a couple of times with the graphics
card but when I opened the CD Drive tray the systwm turnd off. Could it
indeed be my new power supply??? Corsair TX 750W I hope not, although it is
still in warranty.

Just checking the voltages in PC HEalth Status and all are fluctuating by
..01 - .09 and there is no -5v reading. Is this normal?

I will add my firewire card next and see what happens.

"kleefarr" wrote:

I thought I would just try one more time...

This time I unplugged everything from the motherboard except CPU and
replaced the memory and IDE cables. I changed one of the IDE cables, the one
going to the CD drive. It was an ultra 80 ide cable and swapped it for a
standard 40 ide cable. Installed power supply in the case.
So both ram sticks , psu, cpu, CD drive and one of my old 10g HDDs.
Installed windows without any updates no problem.
Left it running for an hour and then added an external DVDRW. Has now being
running for over two hours. This is the longest it has been going for ages.

Could it have been the Ultra 80 IDE cable to the CD drive?
I wouldn't have thought that would have made any difference.

Anyway, I will add an item of hardware at a time including a second 320G HDD
and then eventually connect it to the net and download all the windows
updates.

Fingers crossed.


"kleefarr" wrote:

Installed a new hard drive yesterday, loaded windows and updated everything.
Ws running fine. Today, transfered some files over to the new drive. Got a
light grinding noise, computer restarted by it's self and now gives a stop
error 000000x7b and will not start in safe mode or boot from cd.

Is there anything I can do or is it another RMA job?

Kevin
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