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« on: January 03, 2008, 08:22:17 PM »
HELP! My PC "sometimes" suddenly restarts while installing which causes errors. I made a virus scan with 3 antiviruses (NOD32, Kaspersky 7 & AVG) and with Spyware Doctor but everytime I scan, my PC restarts and during the boot time, my PC always unable to detect my PRIMARY hard drive. So, I need to touched the power port to IDE before it starts. I think my hardware have no problem because it always happen. I already scanned my PC through safe mode but still restarts. Help!!!...
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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2008, 09:04:38 PM »
Your be is unable to detect your primary hard disk?  ...in that case it could just be as simple as a loose/dead ribbon cable...or soemthing like that...but if it your pc restarts....i am not 100% sure....
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2008, 09:27:32 PM »
Try rinning Prime95 for afew hours...  I am thinking it might a cooling issue and that the PC is rebooting/shutting off to protect the processor.   I can't think of anything that would cause the primary drive to not appear on boot...  It could be hardware failure, improper grounding in the case..
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« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2008, 10:59:43 AM »
Quote from: aneljr009 on January 03, 2008, 08:22:17 PM
So, I need to touched the power port to IDE before it starts. I think my hardware have no problem because it always happen.

according to you, you have to touch the IDE before you turn on your pc. then that means it IS a hardware problem, most probably broken IDE or loose power supply female socket.

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« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2008, 02:54:33 AM »
No. I already replaced the socket and port. It only happens during installations and uninstallations so my programs now are limited. I still have 40GB free space. IT forces mo to reformat my PC. WAA!!! cry I have already installed many new games b4 this happened. It happened last December.
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2008, 12:14:49 PM »
Would you say your computer only restarts when heavily using the harddrive?  Or would a large load on system memory or video processing (3D game) cause a restart?  Try copying and pasting 2 GBytes of files, would that make it crash?
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« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2008, 06:46:34 AM »
OK! I already fixed it. The cause is my WINDOWS INSTALLER. I downloaded the new version of WINDOWS INSTALLER from the microsoft's website. It's now fixed. 2funny grin
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