So, I've got an interesting tale to tell. here's the hardware: ga-k8n-sli, athlon x64 socket 939 processor, 3GB memory, WD1600 hard drive, hooked up with SATA. System's a decent plugger, up until a bit over a week ago. System freezes up, I reboot, and it repeats a few times before finally crashing and rebooting before completely loading windows. this is happening in normal as well as safe mode.
So I figure the hard drive's hosed, time to grab a new one. I go through 3 different hard drives just trying to install XP (SP2 and SP3, OEM installers from a known manufacturer -- not my system's builder). All of them, and I do mean all of them fail during the file copy process after the drive format. Dlls just fail to copy over. I try virgin install media and I swap the IDE DVD drive for a SATA, no joy. I even tried to do a repair on the hard drive from the xp install CD. Half the time it reboots when I try to log into the partition, and I've even gotten to run a chkdsk once, where a generic chkdsk says there's no problems, then the chkdsk /r errors out about 3/4ths of the way through.
So, I figure if the hard drive's are failing (known good ones, mind you -- even a brand new one, fresh out of box), and it doesn't matter what DVD ROM I use, it's gotta be the board. If nothing else, it's the SATA controllers. So, I blow some dough and get a cheaparse MSI MS-7184 micro ATX, Slap in the Athlon x64 processor, add the memory, video card, etc. Put in the drives and bam... same problem. Windows refuses to load on the new harddrive, with a failure to copy DLLs about 90% of the way through.
So that's where I sit. So far I've not replaced the case, power supply, processor or video card.
Anyone have any ideas?
So I figure the hard drive's hosed, time to grab a new one. I go through 3 different hard drives just trying to install XP (SP2 and SP3, OEM installers from a known manufacturer -- not my system's builder). All of them, and I do mean all of them fail during the file copy process after the drive format. Dlls just fail to copy over. I try virgin install media and I swap the IDE DVD drive for a SATA, no joy. I even tried to do a repair on the hard drive from the xp install CD. Half the time it reboots when I try to log into the partition, and I've even gotten to run a chkdsk once, where a generic chkdsk says there's no problems, then the chkdsk /r errors out about 3/4ths of the way through.
So, I figure if the hard drive's are failing (known good ones, mind you -- even a brand new one, fresh out of box), and it doesn't matter what DVD ROM I use, it's gotta be the board. If nothing else, it's the SATA controllers. So, I blow some dough and get a cheaparse MSI MS-7184 micro ATX, Slap in the Athlon x64 processor, add the memory, video card, etc. Put in the drives and bam... same problem. Windows refuses to load on the new harddrive, with a failure to copy DLLs about 90% of the way through.
So that's where I sit. So far I've not replaced the case, power supply, processor or video card.
Anyone have any ideas?
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