[kuby123]

hi all, I just joined and here is my problem. My pc will freeze-up at any time and I've tried alot of things but cant figure it out. System is intel p4 with 3.00 processor, ati 256 meg 3550 vid card, 4 sticks of ram total 4096, sound blaster audigy 2zs platinum, and a 700 watt psu. I have a western digital 80 gig hd that is my boot drive. also have a seagate 400 gig secondary hd.
Ok, here's what happens: If I click on second hd the pc will most likely freez up. Almost anytime I use second hd the pc will freeze up. If I'm in firefox browser, sometimes pc will freeze. All the freeze-ups happen when second hd is connected. If I hit reset button to reboot the pc wont boot at all. it freezes automatically at spash screen. I have to turn off pc, unplug second hd (both ribbon cable and power 4 pin plug) then reboot hitting F8 to boot to windows from last known good configuration. Great-- but now I cant use the second hd since its disconnected. On the few times that I did boot with second hd on, I was told to delete temp folder (as much as I can delete), the win prefetch folder, and the registry %temp% contents. I've run ccleaner, malwarebytes, spybot, and avg antivirus. I used driver dective to upgrade all my system drivers, too. Dont know what else to do. I really need some advice. anyone know how to correct this? thanks a million in advance

[kuby123]

btw- right after I posted the first time the pc froze as I was looking around in here for similar posts. I just emptied the three temp folders again. and the second hd is still disconnected. This looks to me to be a software problem but where?

[Hybr!d]

Sounds like the second HD is faulty.

[kuby123]

I was feeling around in the case and found that mu new vid card was really hot. Thought problem might be vid card. So, i pulled it out and reinstalled old 128 nividia card. Almost immediately I get nvidia message saying POWER to vid card is low. I went and disconnected everything except vid and c: drive. I orderded new psu and am waiting for delivery. Btw- no freezeups with limited setup now. I will respond back after new psu is here and installed.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Originally Posted by kuby123

I was feeling around in the case and found that mu new vid card was really hot. Thought problem might be vid card. So, i pulled it out and reinstalled old 128 nividia card. Almost immediately I get nvidia message saying POWER to vid card is low. I went and disconnected everything except vid and c: drive. I orderded new psu and am waiting for delivery. Btw- no freezeups with limited setup now. I will respond back after new psu is here and installed.

but that also supports Dave's theory.


If only the boot drive is connected not the second, then how can you be sure that the PSU is faulty?

Just sounds like bad drive to me, although it could be that the drive is over or under powered.