My old psu went to the hills last night, so i replaced it with spare,,, all ok no probs evertyhing went ok and worked ok..

put in its replacement today a 600w jobby..

now i keep getting bsd's.. and when i try to play giulkdwars online it bsod's saying pfn list corrupt ive tried on the lappy, and its fine no probs...

i keep getting it asking me to install a generic usb driver and then goes **** up, it says avg is giving errors (bsod) my bluetooth reciever again (bsod)

any ideas.... the only other change ive made is to change the secondary ide cable from a 40 pin to a 80 as it kept nagging in the post screens (used for a dvd burner only.

what do you reckon, uninstal all my card stuff and start a again..


Mart

 

Sounds like the old PSU has caused issues on you're Hard Disk. Have you tried running a Scandisk/chkdisk? You may find the HDD has some sector problems that need repairing. Either that or you may have a duff RAM DIMM, causing Data corruption.
Either way you 're best bet is to run some checks against both.

You did plug in the square 4-pin power connector for the CPU?

 

4 pin connector?? nope old m/b only takes the 20pin atx feed

i removed the ram and removed the usb card,,,, all seems ok ish

i think the ram is the root cause, ive had issues for some time now whereby i have 1024 meg and onstartup will show anywhere between 500-600, after the machine has been running and is warm if i do a reboot it will detect the other strip, sometimes its there to start with.

i would go down the new mb route, but now that all the proccesors and and stuff have changed, its not going to be a cheap upgrade, (mb,ram, drives, graphics card, processor) ,ill have to soldier on for a bit longer,,


cheers for the help though

mart

 

Ah the old legacy stuff. Then RAM sounds like the issue. Especially if Windows has decided to put some static driver onto the DIMM that keeps disapearing.

 

whats legacy stuf??

couldnt find chkdisk or scandisk anywhere, has it been mullered on XP??

may pop the other card back in later once it appears to have settled down


mart

 

Legacy as in the old out-of-date hardware you have

XP uses chkdsk. Click START->RUN then type chkdsk /f c:

 

cheek!!! just because its not the latest whizzbang kit dosent meean its not any good, it just means that you aint paying silly money for kit

mart

 

Some would consider my P4 3Ghz with HT now out of date.