Bad hardrive or memory? both?
First off, sorry for posting yet another of these posts. Yes, I have spent much time scouring these forums for any posts relevant to memory/ hard drive failure and BSODs. My setup:
Xp 1800+
Shuttle ak31a
2 x 256mb Kingston pc2100
1 x 40gb Seagate 7200
GF4 4200 Asus
Soundblaster Live 5.1
Fresh install of win XP Pro (5 days old, up-to-date drivers, antivirus, etc).
I just completely reformatted my hard drive. I used to be running windows 2k pro and was having the same problems i am experiencing now. On win2kpro, I would get frequent BSOD's and random restarts. I would also, on occasion, after a restart get a message saying the data on my harddrive was corrupt/unreadable/unuseable. I would attempt to run chkdsk but it would just flash and not give me anything to work with. I figured I'd try starting fresh with XP because it didn't cost me anything.
Upon loading up XP, everything was fine for the first day or two. So far I've had 2 restarts and 1 BSOD saying something about a NTFS problem... I'm guessing having something to do with my harddrive again :( .
Reading many of the posts of similar problems to this, you guys have recommended SeaTools and Memtest86. I am about to run Sea Tools and will run memtest86 tonight. I will update you all tomorrow after I run these tests. I just wanted to put my problem out there in case anyone has a pretty good idea of what's wrong.
Other misc. Info that might help:
*One of my sticks of ram is about 8 months old, the other is almost 3 years old.
Don't know what these mean.. hopefully someone here can help me out!
*IRQs
*Conflict Sharing
Thought I'd throw in this one as it just happened when I closed MSPaint after saving these screen shots... I get errors like this often, not just with Paint, though. I get them with many others like AIM, video games, media player, winamp, etc.
*Memory Error
As I said, I will run Sea Tools (to check harddrive) and memtest86 (to check ram) tonight. Should have results by tomorrow afternoon. Thanks.