Odio
11-27-1999, 01:28 PM
hello.
after thanksgiving i went to start a game of need for speed 3. it then froze up in the intro sequence, i restarted, it then froze up again on the nfs 3 loading screen. so i restarted again and once again it froze up.
i began to get angry then, so i ended up trying another disk to see if it was the cd rom drive-not the disk. it tuened out it was the cd rom drive and the other disk would cause the screen to go blank and lock up the computer. my computer THEN decided to not let the cd rom drive be detected in the DOS disk detection at the system boot. (i am on an ABIT BH6 Motherboard). I then tried one of my old cd rom drives and it was detected until the screen went blank and it wasnt detected again. so i switched EIDE cables, the drives were all detected but i still got a blank screen! i then thought it was a virus so i uninstalled windows in hopes of reinstalling - big mistake, now I cant install windows again (note: I am on my dad's computer right now). when I try to reinstall windows it does the system scan and when it tries to open the install wizard the drives go into a loading frenzy and lock it up. I have tried combonations of it, no 1 hard drive and no 2 hard drive to no avail, if this is a virus they are both infected. so now i have one formatted hard drive, 1 half-full hard drive, no OS, and a system that I have no clue what is going on in.
this is where you guys come in and help.
can you help me? or do i have to buy a whole new computer?
BTW my system specs are
ABIT BH-6 Motherboard
Pentium 3 450 MMX
128mb pc100 ram
Viper V770 Ultra
Monster 3D 2 12mb voodoo 2
Soundblaster Live! Value
1 fujitsu 3.2gb hard drive
1 western digital 6.4gb hard drive
i think they are both 5400rpm
my 3 cd drives are
Mitsumi 6X
UTI 24x
Kenwood Multibeam 42x <---in when it started to happen
after thanksgiving i went to start a game of need for speed 3. it then froze up in the intro sequence, i restarted, it then froze up again on the nfs 3 loading screen. so i restarted again and once again it froze up.
i began to get angry then, so i ended up trying another disk to see if it was the cd rom drive-not the disk. it tuened out it was the cd rom drive and the other disk would cause the screen to go blank and lock up the computer. my computer THEN decided to not let the cd rom drive be detected in the DOS disk detection at the system boot. (i am on an ABIT BH6 Motherboard). I then tried one of my old cd rom drives and it was detected until the screen went blank and it wasnt detected again. so i switched EIDE cables, the drives were all detected but i still got a blank screen! i then thought it was a virus so i uninstalled windows in hopes of reinstalling - big mistake, now I cant install windows again (note: I am on my dad's computer right now). when I try to reinstall windows it does the system scan and when it tries to open the install wizard the drives go into a loading frenzy and lock it up. I have tried combonations of it, no 1 hard drive and no 2 hard drive to no avail, if this is a virus they are both infected. so now i have one formatted hard drive, 1 half-full hard drive, no OS, and a system that I have no clue what is going on in.
this is where you guys come in and help.
can you help me? or do i have to buy a whole new computer?
BTW my system specs are
ABIT BH-6 Motherboard
Pentium 3 450 MMX
128mb pc100 ram
Viper V770 Ultra
Monster 3D 2 12mb voodoo 2
Soundblaster Live! Value
1 fujitsu 3.2gb hard drive
1 western digital 6.4gb hard drive
i think they are both 5400rpm
my 3 cd drives are
Mitsumi 6X
UTI 24x
Kenwood Multibeam 42x <---in when it started to happen