...the comp time stops.? my computer is P4i65G As-rock mother board, 2.8Ghz p4 intel cpu. 512mb kingston ram., BIOS version 1.4. recently my hard drive went bad , so i bought a new one. The previous one was ata , so this time i bought a sata one ,hoping it would be more reliable. but to my bad luck , it was sata 2, and my motherboard just has 2 sata 1 port. I didn't know there are things like sata 1 and 2. after going into a lot of trouble , i could install windows xp sp2 in it( as i was trying different methods,i just disabled primary ide and to my luck it just installed)
the problem that i face now is that my computer suddenly stops. The mouse stops , the keyboard stops, everything stops. It just stops in that screen , even the time is stopped. even after half an hour , it is the same screen, mouse pointer at same place, and the same time in the tool bar.
And every time my computer freezes , the hard drive lead( the red one) stops blinking , so i suppose my computer is no more reading data from the hard drive. I don't know if my hard drive have stopped or not. When i put my had on the computer case(just outside where the hard drive is supposed to be) i can feel the vibration , but it may be due to cpu fan . I even tried putting jumper to work it as sata 1 as mentioned in western digital site( my hard drive is western digital blue cavier).
And the most interesting thing is , when my computer is working ,it is just working normally, i can download movies ,watch them , browse net , actually do anything that i am used to do with the computer. The computer speed is the same . And the computer just restarts normally when i push the restart button and restart the computer. last time when my computer stopped , i restarted and went into the bios and the cpu temp was 51-55 c, mother board 38-40 c.
before when my cpu fan went wrong, my computer used to shut itself, then i changed it, it is working well now with 3000rpm. It should be no problem with my temp. as sometimes this phenomenon occurs even when i just started my computer.
I have no computer viruses. I use semantic anti virus v.10.
so i don't know what has gone wrong with my computer.
my gut says , it's something to do with HDD settings, may be sata 2 is new for my mb , but there should be some ways to make it right. i am not a computer expert, i just learn things by reading here and there in the websites.
so please help me, i am in no position to buy a new computer at the moment.
thanks.
my new 320 gb hard drive is nearly totally free. about memory, out of 512 mb, 8mb is used by graphic adaptor , and after antivirus software and everything still 130mb is left as physical memory , and 1.8 gb out of 2 gb is still left.
before when i used to have my old hdd working , this much memory was enough for me.
the problem that i face now is that my computer suddenly stops. The mouse stops , the keyboard stops, everything stops. It just stops in that screen , even the time is stopped. even after half an hour , it is the same screen, mouse pointer at same place, and the same time in the tool bar.
And every time my computer freezes , the hard drive lead( the red one) stops blinking , so i suppose my computer is no more reading data from the hard drive. I don't know if my hard drive have stopped or not. When i put my had on the computer case(just outside where the hard drive is supposed to be) i can feel the vibration , but it may be due to cpu fan . I even tried putting jumper to work it as sata 1 as mentioned in western digital site( my hard drive is western digital blue cavier).
And the most interesting thing is , when my computer is working ,it is just working normally, i can download movies ,watch them , browse net , actually do anything that i am used to do with the computer. The computer speed is the same . And the computer just restarts normally when i push the restart button and restart the computer. last time when my computer stopped , i restarted and went into the bios and the cpu temp was 51-55 c, mother board 38-40 c.
before when my cpu fan went wrong, my computer used to shut itself, then i changed it, it is working well now with 3000rpm. It should be no problem with my temp. as sometimes this phenomenon occurs even when i just started my computer.
I have no computer viruses. I use semantic anti virus v.10.
so i don't know what has gone wrong with my computer.
my gut says , it's something to do with HDD settings, may be sata 2 is new for my mb , but there should be some ways to make it right. i am not a computer expert, i just learn things by reading here and there in the websites.
so please help me, i am in no position to buy a new computer at the moment.
thanks.
my new 320 gb hard drive is nearly totally free. about memory, out of 512 mb, 8mb is used by graphic adaptor , and after antivirus software and everything still 130mb is left as physical memory , and 1.8 gb out of 2 gb is still left.
before when i used to have my old hdd working , this much memory was enough for me.