Freeze ups - hard drive [Archive]

Nathan

03-27-2001, 02:02 PM

First off, you should never unplug the hard drive while the PC is on.

Before all this happened, did you reformat the hard drive and reinstall windows yet?

mlk18

03-27-2001, 02:13 PM

Yep. I started out of the blue without my having had added anything (hardware of software). After a few weeks of headaches I reformatted and resintalled Win98se. Didn't help.

mlk18

03-28-2001, 12:19 AM

I have a HP Celeron 500. Freezes up out of the blue, and you have to restart constantly (ctr-alt-del does nothing). Put in a brand new 300w power supply and it did not take care of the freeze ups.

I have the processor (and mb) sitting out in the wide open with the processor fan on high, so I can't believe that is overheating.

When it freezes up I unplug the power to the hard drive and get the blue-screen of death. Plug it back in and it starts spinning, and slowly things unfreeze and go back to normal for awhile. I used a boot-up diagnostic disk and the hard drive passed every test. I also put on a new IDE ribbon cable to no avail.

I am running out of ideas, and going nuts at the same time. ANY ideas or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.

mlk18