I swear to god I may as well sell this piece of crap off for parts, all of a sudden last week my hard drive decided it didn't wanna work: Whenever I booted up I got the "Windows XP is Loading" malarkey, then the machine restarted and took me through it all over again.

Fast forward to yesterday, I format and reinstall. Everything is going fine, then suddenly out of nowhere, XP restarts itself and has the exact same problem.

Now i've installed it on the other HDD, I installed SP2, all the graphics and mobo drivers, then restarted. As soon as I clicked my profile to log in after the restart, I get an assload of messages telling me all sorts of files in Documents & Settings are corrupt.

I'm gonna try creating a new Admin account see if that fixes it up, but god damn this is pissing me off... everytime I get this piece of **** fixed a new random problem pops up out of nowhere.

Specs:

Athlon 64 X2 4600+
1 Gig DDR2 somethingorother OCZ RAM
2xSamsung 7200 SATA HDD (250gig)
Can't remember the exact 3d card, it ain't mine. ATI 1300 or something maybe?
M2n32 Deluxe mobo.

Any ideas? this computer is ****ing annoying.

for a start disable the "restart on serious error" option so you can get a vague idea whats causing it.

Sounds to me like your hard drive is dying. Back up all your important stuff.

Aye, that's exactly what happened to Geoff before his forced HDD-ectomy

Thats probably your problem right there. Ive never owned a Samsung hard drive that lasted more than 3 months.

You should probably check that ram too.

zomg its GBK!!!

if(getThingFlags(source) & 0x8){
  do her}
elseif(getThingFlags(source) & 0x4){
  do other babe}
else{
  do a dude}

And how many did you own? Two?

Unless you can find some data showing Samsung's failure rate is higher than anyone else's, I'm calling FUD.

Yes, it is! Im not the one who disappears for months at a time.

I can't provide statistical analysis, but I will agree that it seems that Samsung HDDs have a higher rate of failure than (some) other manufacturers in our lab environment. And our testing rate is in the magnitude of thousands, not single digits.

As an IT professional, I'm sure that's where GBK is basing his statement from.

Personally, 6, and Ive had the displeasure of replacing them in at least 50 client systems over the years.


Oh the other hand, yes, its mostly FUD. He really should check his ram, though.