help (again) illegal op. wont leave>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[rl]

in windows, i was getting an "illegal opperation" when i opened programs, so i reinstalled, i got two illegal ops while installing, and now i am getting them in windows all the time. i ran norton and found nothing. what could this be????? i ran at 83 mhz fsb for a long time, does this mean my hd is toast???? help!!
p.s. before this started windows was warning me of bad sectors in my hd, if that will tell you anything

[This message has been edited by rl (edited 11-28-1999).]

[rangeral]

were you hearing any grinding or unusual noises besides the warning, if you have norton run its disk doctor see what that says if good then do the defrag. if you re-installed over old windows you may not have fixed real problem, with this many problems, i would start over with formatting the drive for clean install. you don't say how old your drive is, also go into device manager and uncheck dma in disk drives see if that helps before formatting the drive.
also go into your pc and swap ribbon cable or make sure there all in properly,while there look at jumper on hard drive see if its in its proper place.

[This message has been edited by rangeral (edited 11-28-1999).]

[Axel]

If the drive is an older drive, I'd buy a new drive, make it your primary with your operating system, and slave this troubled drive to it to get your files off. Damaged sectors ( if there is any real percentage of them ) speak of a failing drive you want to replace, or at the very least, reformat with a nice low level format and start over.

Have you tried a scandisk/defrag combo in safe mode with the screen saver off?

Have you updated your anti-virus definitions and run a thorough scan of your system? << probably not the case. bad sectors on a drive are typically a hardware thing. Viruses that attack hard drives typically burn the read/write head through the drive in under a minute.

Best bet - have Santa bring you a new drive & find all of your hardware driver disks for a re-install over the Christmas holidays.

[rl]

well santa hit early and bought me a 15 gig ibm deskstar, and so far all is good, thanks for the help guys