[steveoizzle]

Well I just got a new Case, Mobo, PSU, CD/DVD drive..
im using my old videocard, HD, RAM, floppydrive...

2.4 ghz
1gb ddrpc266
radeon 9800 pro 128

now im having trouble whenever I go to play certain games
so far I know my computer will completely crash when I try and open warcraft 3 or halo, diablo2 works fine.. lol..

I have windows XP sp2 fresh reformatt(twice cuz it crashed before and still doin it so i think its hardware related)

i did a benchmark test that came with my drivers
my results are a score of 2382 vidcard clocked at 378/337

i scored right below a X1600XT AMD 2.5 (581/684)----2671
then me with a score of 2382
then i scored right above a X1600PRO AMD64 2.3 (500/387)----1786

i think the reason for the crashes is due to having a bad sector on my HD? any advice?

[Wolfeymole]

What did chkdsk report Steve?

[steveoizzle]

im running it right now.

[Wolfeymole]

Go to Start, All Programs, Accesories, Command Prompt and type;

chkdsk c:

Type this exactly like I have put above.

[steveoizzle]

I just finished it, i had to restart for it to start.. took a while... but it just scanned 5 different things on my harddrive and it didnt say anything anywhere about errors...? where and when will it tell you about bad sectors, errors etc?

[steveoizzle]

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors <stage 3 of 3>...
security descriptor verification completed.
correcting errors in the volume bitmap.
windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /f <fix> option to correct these.

0 kb in bad sectors.

...? -.-

[Wolfeymole]

I just ran a Check Disk (chkdsk) and this is what it came back with, look at it carefully.

[Wolfeymole]

Run chkdsk c:/f

This will fix the problems hopefully.

[steveoizzle]

ok i ran "Chkdsk c:/f"
now i have to restart and hopefully it fixes it
brb.

[steveoizzle]

alright when it restarted and did the chkdsk c:/f it went thru fine
i just went back into cmd and ran chkdsk c:
and i got some new errors
http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ent=errors.jpg


and now when im switching thru websites
i keep getting
"Error retrieving the XML data:"
i have to click ok about 5-6 times then it stops
i think my HD is going bad and spreading throughout the whole harddrive now...
????

[Wolfeymole]

Run chkdsk c:/f again Steve then come back to us.

[steveoizzle]

Alright, I ran chkdsk c:/f again, restarted.

when it restarted it went thru the files, indexes and descriptors just fine with no errors, it looked just like the screenshot you posted and told me to take a good look at. the only difference is mine was infront of a blue screen at startup and not on my cmd...
although it only gave me about 3 seconds to look at it, it looked just like yours. what now?

[Wolfeymole]

It sounds like you are have a virus across perhaps.

What AV do you use and Firewall?

[steveoizzle]

i dont have any AV installed right now because just last night i deleted the whole partition on my hd and have a brand new reformat, only things ive downloaded were like my drivers, adobe flash player, wmp10, dx9.0c, ventrilo and AIM.. and thats it really i havnt downloaded ANYTHING else so far... all of those were legit and ive used em before never had a virus on any of those.. but i have my normal windows xp firewall on its been on..

[Wolfeymole]

Get Avast from our Downloads section, install it and allow it to do a system scan on reboot.

Obtain Commodo for the firewall, this will turn off the Windows firewall which is good for protection against inbound traffic only.

Get Spybot and AdAware after this, get all updates and run them.

Then get back to us.