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WyrmMaster
12-21-02, 05:45 PM
On a COLD boot (computer has been off for several hours atleast) the first try will get to windows and reset. The second try will give a page fault in none paged area when it gets to windows, and the third try will boot fine. The system is stable otherwise, i have had it up for 12+ hours, full load, folding. I dont recall ever having this problem on a reboot, only when i first boot. Possible harddrive corruption, i have been running at 166+fsb with no no 1/5 divider for a couple months now...
RnPgrosz
12-22-02, 12:51 AM
It does sounds like a problem with your HDD especially since your running the PCI bus fairly high but keep in mind it could also possibly be bad memory(testing with docmemory wouldn't be a bad idea).
WyrmMaster
12-22-02, 05:18 AM
true, although i dont quite see a memory problem not causing stability problems, and also only not working for the first two boots. Then again, it is a pretty strange harddrive problem too...
UnWishedLegacy
12-22-02, 05:45 AM
Is that your Maxtor HD? I'm not sure about Maxtor but Western Digital supplies a diagnostic proggy in thier wabsite- you might want to check Maxtor's site (or maybe it came with your drivers and stuff if you got any disks/CD's with your HD.

the WD version checks for errors and gives you a code/posible reason- but I would cut back on your overclock, I'm not 100% sure but at THAT high an overclock- drives dont last too long.
How old is it BTW?
WyrmMaster
12-22-02, 08:30 AM
actually its a WD 120gb SE. About 3 months old. Il probably just back off a bit and see if the problem goes away.
DocClock aka MadClocker
12-22-02, 08:41 AM
Do a surface scan on the hdd and see if it reports any bad sectors.
BTW, my old WD caviar 2g is fubar, and the wd diag util sez the drive is fine...so I wrote zeros to the hdd, created a partition, then formatted, and the drive still wouldn't cooperate. I think this summer, I will take my bear rifle (hawken45 cal) loaded with about 120grains of powder and see how the hdd works with "blowholes"..besides, it's been too long since I've taken it out to play...A .45cal makes nice big holes :)