Hi
Last night I switched everything over to a new case (The only other change was replacing an old CRT monitor with a new LCD, but I can't imagine how that would cause any problems) and something seems to have gone wrong somewhere, as my computer generates a disk boot error on boot unless I have the win XP cd in the drive and let it sit at the "boot from cd" prompt for a few seconds.
When it does boot the entire system lags every few seconds (mouse/keyboard input, sound is choppy, etc) and the cpu useage as reported by speedfan stays around 50% but having a look at the process manager does not showing any tasks sucking up more than their fair share of the cpu.
The temps reported by speedfan are all in the okay range, no change there. (highest temp is currently 34C)
We've also had a very bad storm all night and at one point while booting it up to make sure I plugged everything in right we lost power for a split second which had the nasty side effects of corrupting my bios settings but I've checked in there and everything seems to be at their correct settings.
I'm thinking there's something up with the HDD but I'd like to hear of any possible alternatives before reinstalling everything in case that doesn't solve anything.
I am currently defragging the HDD in question as well.
Specs:
CPU: AMD 4000+ at 2.4ghz
RAM: 2 GB corsair something or another
GPU: nvidia 9600GT
OS: Win XP
MOBO: a8n-sli premium
150 GB HDD on an IDE connection (The one the OS is installed on)
500 GB HDD on SATA
Last night I switched everything over to a new case (The only other change was replacing an old CRT monitor with a new LCD, but I can't imagine how that would cause any problems) and something seems to have gone wrong somewhere, as my computer generates a disk boot error on boot unless I have the win XP cd in the drive and let it sit at the "boot from cd" prompt for a few seconds.
When it does boot the entire system lags every few seconds (mouse/keyboard input, sound is choppy, etc) and the cpu useage as reported by speedfan stays around 50% but having a look at the process manager does not showing any tasks sucking up more than their fair share of the cpu.
The temps reported by speedfan are all in the okay range, no change there. (highest temp is currently 34C)
We've also had a very bad storm all night and at one point while booting it up to make sure I plugged everything in right we lost power for a split second which had the nasty side effects of corrupting my bios settings but I've checked in there and everything seems to be at their correct settings.
I'm thinking there's something up with the HDD but I'd like to hear of any possible alternatives before reinstalling everything in case that doesn't solve anything.
I am currently defragging the HDD in question as well.
Specs:
CPU: AMD 4000+ at 2.4ghz
RAM: 2 GB corsair something or another
GPU: nvidia 9600GT
OS: Win XP
MOBO: a8n-sli premium
150 GB HDD on an IDE connection (The one the OS is installed on)
500 GB HDD on SATA