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Thread ID: 98790	2009-04-07 06:34:00	Computer crashing question	Growler (12596)	Press F1

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762924	2009-04-10 13:31:00	Was meant to get back to this yesterday - sorry had work to do. The error message is saying that one of the Disks is losing contact - which more than likely is causing the problem. IF it were the Optical drive, the error would usually be CDROM, not disk. What I suggest is a process of elimination . With the PC turned off, disconnect the second drive - start the PC, and see if it crashes again - if not, look into the event Viewer and make sure there are no more errors. IF it does crash again, do the same to the optical drive. IF its still doing it, then it could be the main drive, try a different SATA port on the board. Once you find which drive is causing the problem/errors, try replacing the cable from the board to the device, if that doesn't work, try a different power plug on your power supply. Sooner or later the errors will stop when a device is disconnected - that will be the problem. Cheers for that. Totally understand with real life getting in the way. With further investigation it seems the computer crashes / freezes when I'm playing certain games. The PC just hangs. (The machine is grunty enough to run them). I have checked the event viewer when they do freeze and nothing shows up.. It still shows the disk error - but the noted time doesn't coincide with the freeze. For example I was playing COD4 online for about three hours and the PC was fine. It never missed a beat. Yet when I check the event viewer the disk error showed up 4 times. I will do as you have suggested and see what results come up. Thanks again for your help.	Growler (12596)
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