Recently when running my computer during normal operation in Windows XP Professional I could hear the Hard Drive turn off and on real quick. This whole turning off and on process takes only a split second. During the quick reboot of the hard drive my computer will freeze, and then a second later I can resume working as before. However after this happens about 4 times the whole computer freezes I and must restart the entire computer.
Also on top of this problem I have been having a problem with starting up the computer. Basically if I push the on button it doesn’t always start up first time. Then after pushing it numerous times and wait for a bit in between tries the computer finally starts up.
Basically I was wondering if anyone could help me out figure what is going wrong with my computer. So far I have tried replacing the hard drive, and that didn’t work it still did the same thing. I am having a suspicion that the problem could either be my power supply or motherboard. But I don’t want to replace them before confirming this due to the cost of getting new ones. Also both these items are only 6 months old.
Thank you for your help, and if you need any more information feel free to ask.
Computer Specs:
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo 2.4GHz Processor
• DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D MotherBoard
• Geforce 7900GT 256MB Graphics Card
• 2 GB DDR SDRAM
• NEC 16x DVD Burner
• Creative SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Platinum Sound Card
• COOLMAX CT-550 ATX 550W Power Supply
• 80GB Western Digital Hard Drive
• 250GB Western Digital Hard Drive
Also on top of this problem I have been having a problem with starting up the computer. Basically if I push the on button it doesn’t always start up first time. Then after pushing it numerous times and wait for a bit in between tries the computer finally starts up.
Basically I was wondering if anyone could help me out figure what is going wrong with my computer. So far I have tried replacing the hard drive, and that didn’t work it still did the same thing. I am having a suspicion that the problem could either be my power supply or motherboard. But I don’t want to replace them before confirming this due to the cost of getting new ones. Also both these items are only 6 months old.
Thank you for your help, and if you need any more information feel free to ask.
Computer Specs:
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo 2.4GHz Processor
• DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D MotherBoard
• Geforce 7900GT 256MB Graphics Card
• 2 GB DDR SDRAM
• NEC 16x DVD Burner
• Creative SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Platinum Sound Card
• COOLMAX CT-550 ATX 550W Power Supply
• 80GB Western Digital Hard Drive
• 250GB Western Digital Hard Drive