Hi All!
I got a question here. For the past six or seven weeks I've been trying to fix my crashing problem with my "Junk" PC. She would last an hour or two on a clean install of Windows XP Pro then go into a hard lockup. Everytime after getting restarted most of the desktop icons would not execute their programs ever again. I changed the mobo and CPU....same problem, changed the PSU....same problem. Put some of my stuff including my hard drive in a Compaq. Same problem again but it took 24 hours to go down. Got pissed and bought a used Dell Optiplex GX 150 w/o a hard drive. I put mine in it, and reprogramed. She lasted about three hours before the crash.
For shits and giggles I used the Western digital utillity cd and rewrote the MBR on the hard drive. The Dell has now been back up for three days and running strong. In rewrtting the MBR did I kill some sort of MBR sector virus that may have been the root cause of all these problems? Oh P.S. the drive that I use is a Western Digital WD Caviar SE WD800 Model WD800 JB. It was brand new in March! Going to see if I can get Circuit City to warranty it next weekend! 
I got a question here. For the past six or seven weeks I've been trying to fix my crashing problem with my "Junk" PC. She would last an hour or two on a clean install of Windows XP Pro then go into a hard lockup. Everytime after getting restarted most of the desktop icons would not execute their programs ever again. I changed the mobo and CPU....same problem, changed the PSU....same problem. Put some of my stuff including my hard drive in a Compaq. Same problem again but it took 24 hours to go down. Got pissed and bought a used Dell Optiplex GX 150 w/o a hard drive. I put mine in it, and reprogramed. She lasted about three hours before the crash.
For shits and giggles I used the Western digital utillity cd and rewrote the MBR on the hard drive. The Dell has now been back up for three days and running strong. In rewrtting the MBR did I kill some sort of MBR sector virus that may have been the root cause of all these problems? Oh P.S. the drive that I use is a Western Digital WD Caviar SE WD800 Model WD800 JB. It was brand new in March! Going to see if I can get Circuit City to warranty it next weekend!
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