Huge problem (NTFS)

[BillyRF]

About 1 month after getting the computer, it would randomly freeze, forcing me to manually restart and greeting me with "Disk read error" messages. It would do this even 30 minutes into a fresh reformat (NTFS), and I've had many computer's before (on XP) and never this problem before.

 

The shop, replaced the Seagate with a Western Digital HD and upgraded the BIOS to help prevent video memory corruption (?) and said my problems should be over. But, now, 4 weeks later, my game (Natural Selection) freezes, forces me to restart manually, and presents "Disk read error" messages.

 

What can cause this ? I only have a few Steam installed games (CS, CS:S, DoD, DOD:S, Hl1, Hl2), Elder Scrolls Oblivion, Battlefield 2, a large selection of movies, and thats it. My drivers are updated (video card, sound, mobo) and i hadn't recently installed anything (within 24hours).

 

Is it a fault of the NTFS file system ? Should I reformat into FAT32 ??

[hecker]

How are your discs attached to your PC. SATA, IDE, what? Did you check your BIOS configuration?

I got this problem a lot when I turned the AUTO option on in the BIOS for recognizing drives.

It could also be a RAM problem. You could try running memtest or just setting your RAM speed somewhat lower for a while.

 

hecker

[wasted brain]

the way i see it, your hard drive has no problem.

 

probably, and i might be wrong, you have to replace your sata/ide cable. it happened to me....around 3 times and it really did gave me a headache.

 

likewise, try to see if your sata/ide cables were firmly attached.