What's going wrong here?

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Hey guys,

Some of you might remember my "Disk Read Error" problem, well, it's happening again, except this time I can't fix it. Also, I can no longer read from a CD/DVD, so I can't try to repair my installation. I think the motherboard may have problems, but can't be sure. Any suggestions on ways to fix this? Thanks.

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

hmmm try to aquire a spare CD or DVD drive and a net set of cables to see if they function, if not then there could be a serious problem

Darren · Nov 22, 2007

Ben Clarke said:
Hey guys,

Some of you might remember my "Disk Read Error" problem, well, it's happening again, except this time I can't fix it. Also, I can no longer read from a CD/DVD, so I can't try to repair my installation. I think the motherboard may have problems, but can't be sure. Any suggestions on ways to fix this? Thanks.

Perhaps your DVD drive is dodgy. You can get a replacement DVDRW drive for less than 20 pounds!

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Tried with a spare DVD-RW from an old system, same problem. Neither of the harddrives work either.

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

hmmm not sounding to promising im afraid ben. tried a bios flash yet?

panchoman · Nov 22, 2007

check your cables, an improper cable connection could cause the corruption of data and read/write errors. is your cd/dvd drive sata or pata? idk how the cd/dvd drive not reading come into the picture.

Darren · Nov 22, 2007

Dodgy IDE or Sata connectivity on your motherboard. Have you tried the lastest motherboard bios and latest chipset drivers? if it's physically broken, and your sure that your IDE/SATA devices are not to blame, you may have to buy a new motherboard. AM2 motherboards can be had from 25-30 pounds easily.

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Latest BIOS, all connections secure, they work in the old system. Motherboard then? Great. No games until Christmas

JC316 · Nov 22, 2007

It could be that your cable is broken, try getting another cable and hooking it up.

Darren · Nov 22, 2007

Ben Clarke said:
Latest BIOS, all connections secure, they work in the old system. Motherboard then? Great. No games until Christmas

No games till Christmas, are you crazy!! The games you do have installed at present use a No CD crack for them, so you can play without disc. Secondly, I'm sure you can afford 25 pound for a new motherboard!

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

Ben Clarke said:
Latest BIOS, all connections secure, they work in the old system. Motherboard then? Great. No games until Christmas

sorry to hear ben :shadedshu

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Darren said:
No games till Christmas, are you crazy!! The games you do have installed at present use a No CD crack for them, so you can play without disc. Secondly, I'm sure you can afford 25 pound for a new motherboard!

Nope.... have disks for them, but this system I'm using no wcan't handle them. And I can't buy anything until Christmas...

@JC316: Yeah, tried, fail.

{JNT}Raptor · Nov 22, 2007

Ben have you tested your memory yet?....Bad memory can corrupt your Hard Drives as well....worth a shot.

Hope It helps.

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Memtest reported no errors... and as I said, teh drives work fine on an old system.

{JNT}Raptor · Nov 22, 2007

Whats your system log say.....giving any driver errors?

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

I can't actually get into the OS... the errors occur right after POST.

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

mobo gone how unlucky, least its close to christmans, could have happened in March!!

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Did then too,that's how I ended up with this one.

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

lol not your luck then is it?

Darren · Nov 22, 2007

Ben Clarke said:
I can't actually get into the OS... the errors occur right after POST.

I actually have a similar problem with my ASUS M2V motherboard. But it only happens if I over clock it too far...System would attempt to boot, but I will get corrupt windows files upon bootup.

hat · Nov 22, 2007

That suxxors.

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Darren said:
I actually have a similar problem with my ASUS M2V motherboard. But it only happens if I over clock it too far...System would attempt to boot, but I will get corrupt windows files upon bootup.

Doesn't give any corrupt files here, just

"Disk read error
Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

hmmm have you tried booting from an alternate source ie. backup OS on memory stick?

Jess Stingray · Nov 22, 2007

Don't have any working memory sticks, so that's out. And I don't think my BIOS actually supports USB booting.

Fuse-Wire · Nov 22, 2007

well then im outa ideas sorry, thats the only thing i could think of was to use alternate OS boot to access windows to see if you could get to the problem from there but awell.

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