file elsewhere. what the problem in my computer? what is drive H? is it a HDD, memory card? this error can be caused by improper removal of a device while windows was working with it. it can also be caused by bad sectors or a failing controller...

MA790FXT-UD5P and failing ethernet?. I bought this MA790FXT-UD5P board several months ago and have been using it as a workstation, and other than a few bios issues, everything has been great. Unfortunately as of last week the ethernet ports have started to...

Motherboard, PS, or GPU failing?. My computer has been having major problems lately. One day I took it to a friends house and after hooking it up there, the thing would shut down as soon as I started any 3d application(WoW in this case). Brought it back home...

Failed hard drive; RAID 1. I have an older Dell XPS-410 with Raid 1. This morning when I booted up I was greeted by the message, "A RAID volume is degraded because of failed hard drives.". I kind of saw this coming. I'm now running on the other hard drive...

Windows 7 failing to install. Hi there, I have recently purchased a few computer parts and upgraded my computer. After putting it together, I switched it on and went to install windows 7 (hardware changes stop me booting my previous installation). (Note:...

one possible failure mode, but they could also fail in a way that you would lose all of your data. That's said to be the "normal" failure mode for an SSD drive, but as cjl indicated you certainly can't rely on your drive failing that way. Exactly. If it happened...

IDE drives all malfunctioning and failing suddenly. Hey guys, I've had this computer for a few years now, specs below. Basically, all my IDE connected drives (2 hard drives, 1 DVD drive) have all started malfunctioning at once. There are 2 different cables...

the sake of documentation, the errors are: Test- 5 Pass- 0 Failing Address- 001d1bb7518 - 7451.7MB Good- 00008001 Bad- 00000001 Err-Bits- 00008000 Count- 1 Test- 5 Pass- 0 Failing Address- 001d5bb74f8 - 7515.7MB Good- 00008001 Bad- 00000001...

Programs start failing when pc on too long. Problem: when I boot up and open several programs, I have no problems. However, after a few hours, even if I have walked away from the computer, some programs stop working, and when I try to open them again, I get...

New System Worked For 5 Days Before Failing - Does Not Post or Beep. I built a system last week and it worked perfectly for about 5 days. Then I noticed a high pitched whine. Following the sound to my system, I noticed it was quite warm. I shut it down,...