I need serious help....

[IronMan]

Hey I been away for a while but now im bak. I wish it could be under better circumstances though... Heres my Prob.
My puter just started doing this about a week ago. Ill be working on something or just surfin, ill hear a small clik ( kinda like when a dial-up disconnects, but no thats not what happens that just the sound ) Then i get one of the following. The blue screen of death telling me unable to write to drive C: OR i get no message just total freeze. Then this is the worst part, when i restart i get the lovly message "Operating System Not Found" But if i turn it back off then on again ( several times it usually takes ) it will work fine untill it decides to throw another fit.... so my question is WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG!!! I cant figure it out i tried. I am hoping you answers are not... well just re install. but if thats the thing to do i can do that no prob i just dont want to if its something small. Well thanx hope you can help.

[funky]

I think it's the computer's way to tell you that you need to reformat!;)

[YARDofSTUF]

run scandisk thorough check and see if it finds stuff, scan for a virus/torjan. thats ur easy prayer shot to see it fixed if not unless u do the same thign when it freezes or unless ur system is OCed then i sy reformat!

[IronMan]

WEll thanx guys and i should mention it happens at different times no matter what im doing. I already ran through scandisk checking for surface errors, None. Then i ran norton utilities and checked for disk surface erros, None. I then rand all other norton utilites system checks, not 1 error that it found. Im gonna go to bed now and if more people suggest reformatting, i will in the morning , if i have to, i guess. :( thanx again

[YARDofSTUF]

what brand hard drive?


woa u sleep? ha! lol

[IronMan]

Yes yardofstuff i sleep, but hey man its 5:02 AM so cut me some slack man :) anyhow my boot drive is a Maxtor and slave is the old factory Quantom Fireball. which only holds swap file and Mp3s anyhow. so its a Maxtor 5400rpm ( give or take a few ) 15 gig. oops i guess i lied b4... ok now im going to bed.

[YARDofSTUF]

www.maxtor.com has some tools in the support section for both brands since they bought quantum.

powermax is the maxtor diag tool. i didnt see one for the Quantum drive.

if powermax checking the maxtor drive doesnt work try putting the swap on ur maxtor and just unplug the Q drive if it only has mp3s on it.

thats about all i can think of.

[RoundEye]

Is the click coming from your hard drive? It may be failing and that's why the bios can't find the op-sys.

I had a computer, the other day, that would not find the op-sys (Operating System Not Found) on boot. Turns out the mobo had a bad IDE channel and would not recognize the hard drive.

[Murman]

The drive is dying .. get a new one or RMA from Maxtor.

Call up Maxtor, tell them it's totaly dead, have them ship you a new one and when you ship yours back drop it a few times to make sure it's dead :)

[IronMan]

Well thanx. YardofStuff thanx for the info, but no probs were found with their diagnostics. I am going to reformat and see if that fixes it. I dread doing that. I can do it no prob though its just the time... well i be back and tell you how it turned out. Ill start later on today. Thanx all

[Crump]

reseat cables and you will probably have to format and reinstall...if that does not work you might have a failing hdd