Chief-Phillips
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I had bought a Dell Insp. 9200 last year, but it wasn't really up to my standards, so I ended up buying a new motherboard etc. etc. and taking out the RAM (3GB DDR2 800MHz), processor (Intel Q6600 2.4), and the DVD-ROM and left the old Dell sitting under my bed while I had a blast with my new powerful PC.
While searching TigerDirect.ca while I was bored, I noticed that there was an OEM Q6600 for only $180, so I figured why not buy that, some new RAM (OCZ DDR2 800MHz, Platinum Edition) and some thermal paste and fix up that old Dell to replace my sisters older computer (then fix up my sisters older computer for my parents... That's how it tends to go with my family, hehe).
So I take the RAM and DVD-ROM that came from the Dell originally and put that with the new Q6600 into the Dell hardware and took my sisters Western Digital WD2500JS 250GB HDD and put that in, formatted and installed from the Dell branded Vista DVD. Everything was working great, all 4 cores were running well at under 20 degrees (Dell knows how to cool a CPU), Vista was running smooth, and I installed all of the drivers that were needed. I started porting over my sisters documents and music from the 6 backup DVDs I had made (1 entire DVD was photos.. that kid sure loves her camera) and installing the programs she used such as MSN Messenger, Firefox, Team Speak, etc., and I started to notice slow downs and then outright crashes.
The first step in the crashing would be a Windows module crashing, like dwm.exe, or the logon process not being able to load windows, and then the hard drive would become unwritable. So since I couldn't do anything with the computer, I did a hard reboot from the power button. When the PC would begin to boot up, one of two things would happen. First, either the BIOS wouldn't completely do its process and the little progress bar under the Dell boot logo wouldn't complete, thus requiring a restart. The second, and most common occurance, would be the failure to recognize a hard drive by the BIOS. Once I got the hard drive not recognized error I'd again reboot and the computer would start up normally.
I've run chkdsk twice and no errors in the file system were found, nor were any bad sectors, so I'm completely and totally at a loss. Before I end up using that Hard Drive as a paperweight and buying new, is there anything I can do to salvage what I got?
Processor: Intel Q6600 2.4GHz
RAM: Kingston 3GB DDR2 (2x 1GB 2x 512MB)
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD2500JS 250GB
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 945 (Dell manufactured)
While searching TigerDirect.ca while I was bored, I noticed that there was an OEM Q6600 for only $180, so I figured why not buy that, some new RAM (OCZ DDR2 800MHz, Platinum Edition) and some thermal paste and fix up that old Dell to replace my sisters older computer (then fix up my sisters older computer for my parents... That's how it tends to go with my family, hehe).
So I take the RAM and DVD-ROM that came from the Dell originally and put that with the new Q6600 into the Dell hardware and took my sisters Western Digital WD2500JS 250GB HDD and put that in, formatted and installed from the Dell branded Vista DVD. Everything was working great, all 4 cores were running well at under 20 degrees (Dell knows how to cool a CPU), Vista was running smooth, and I installed all of the drivers that were needed. I started porting over my sisters documents and music from the 6 backup DVDs I had made (1 entire DVD was photos.. that kid sure loves her camera) and installing the programs she used such as MSN Messenger, Firefox, Team Speak, etc., and I started to notice slow downs and then outright crashes.
The first step in the crashing would be a Windows module crashing, like dwm.exe, or the logon process not being able to load windows, and then the hard drive would become unwritable. So since I couldn't do anything with the computer, I did a hard reboot from the power button. When the PC would begin to boot up, one of two things would happen. First, either the BIOS wouldn't completely do its process and the little progress bar under the Dell boot logo wouldn't complete, thus requiring a restart. The second, and most common occurance, would be the failure to recognize a hard drive by the BIOS. Once I got the hard drive not recognized error I'd again reboot and the computer would start up normally.
I've run chkdsk twice and no errors in the file system were found, nor were any bad sectors, so I'm completely and totally at a loss. Before I end up using that Hard Drive as a paperweight and buying new, is there anything I can do to salvage what I got?
Processor: Intel Q6600 2.4GHz
RAM: Kingston 3GB DDR2 (2x 1GB 2x 512MB)
Hard Drive: Western Digital WD2500JS 250GB
Motherboard Chipset: Intel 945 (Dell manufactured)