Bluescreens out of nowhere?

haveblue · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 am **Posts:** 229

Everything was running nice and stable a few days ago, but now I seem to be getting bluescreens doing completely innocent things. And they seem to be caused by different things each time, the last one said something about ntfs.sys.

I thought maybe I had a virus or something, and it'd been a while, so I formatted, re-installed Windows. Installed drivers, updated, etc. Then, I went to change my desktop background, and got a bluescreen.

Maybe some hardware is going bad?

Flama22 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:30 pm

After formatting I guess the hard drive would be the first thing to look at. It might be writting bad sectors or have surface errors but really it could be a number of other things as well. Memory, ATA/SATA controller on the motherboard. God I hate debugging hardware. :cry:

haveblue · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 am **Posts:** 229

I'm installing SP1 now, because it didn't install with the rest of the updates. If that doesn't help, I'm going to run memtest for a while and see if it's my memory. The drive is getting old though, so that may be my problem

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:45 pm

You can fire up Speedfan and see if any S.M.A.R.T. issues are coming up on the HD.

maverick_brent · **Posted:** Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:41 pm

from past expirence, an NTFS.sys error usually meant that my drive was failing...i would suggest running a S.M.A.R.T scan, and if you can try replacing the drive and see what happens...

haveblue · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 am **Posts:** 229

I haven't had any trouble since, but if it pops up again, S.M.A.R.T will be the first thing I do. Thanks guys.

haveblue · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 am **Posts:** 229

Okay, well I haven't had any bluescreens recently, but I've been having all kinds of trouble. Games keep crashing or locking up, this morning memory usage was through the roof and took like 10 minutes to reboot. One of my drives is making a more scratchy sound when read/writing than it ever used to.

I loaded up speedfan, and it doesn't recognize my drives. However, one of the sensors (AUX) is at like 122C, but I don't know what that is. Anyone know?

I'm going to try formatting (it's been a while and needs to be done anyway).

Oh, I just noticed speedfan is giving me:
SMBus msg: 12:57:15.299 Unsuccessful SELB $77 to $...

I'm going to assume a drive is dying. Now to find out which one.

maverick_brent · **Posted:** Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:11 pm

ignore the aux temp alot of motherboads report that wrong....and for the noise ...i would be 99% sure its the HDD going...alot of times you cant save them...try using a program called HDTune...it will scan smart status and drive integrity....

haveblue · **Joined:** Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:55 am **Posts:** 229

I remembered why I have unflinching loyalty to MB, and brought the drive in. Swapped it for a new 320 for like $35.

Dr_BenD_over · **Posted:** Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:14 pm

haveblue wrote:

I remembered why I have unflinching loyalty to MB, and brought the drive in. Swapped it for a new 320 for like $35.

ronedogg · **Joined:** Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:23 am **Posts:** 887

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i feel bad i havent been buyin anyting at all lately form there. too far of a drive now that i found ncix. lol
ill have to take a pop over soon and buy something. what to buy?

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