I built my friend a computer about 1.5-2 years ago. He is blind and has been on XP previously. In short, his desktop loses the ability to boot. Just say's please insert proper media and restart etc. The last time this happened I found that a chkdsk uncovered several error's on the ssd, so since it was a refurbished ssd, I replaced it with a second ssd from my rig. Well it did it again. I had previously stress tested the cpu with prime95 for a 24hr period with no problems. Can't remember what else I have done for stability. So I'll give a history and the equipment and hopefully someone can give me advice.
AMD Vishera 6 core
4g generic ddr3
Asus M5-A97 R2.0
generic 400w psu
ATI X1900XT (fan died on this so it was replaced)
PNY Nvidia GT610
Corsair Force3 refurb (after several reinstalls chkdsk found errors on this)
replaced with my non-refurb Corsair Force3 (when it was booting I unplugged his laptop and the power strip hit the desk, bricked this drive)
Mushkin 120g ssd (this is the one that after a couple months won't boot, it's sitting in the car un-diagnosed)
So a brief history. I bought him these components and to save money re-used some of the part's from his previous desktop/IE my old Pentium D rig. The case and gpu were reused. For about a year the machine was just fine, running windows 7 with office and his screen reading software, Window Eyes. Then he upgraded to windows 10 and after a few months started having problems. After replacing all of the case fans I realized the fan on the ATI was stopping eventually and crashing the computer. So I went to best buy and got the PNY 610. After a few months his desktop started corrupting, I would reinstall windows and he would have it for a week and then I would get it back. After enough times it finally lagged hard while I had it and that's when I looked at the ssd and chkdsk showed several errors. Rather than risk a ssd that might be dieing I took my second SSD which had been running flawlessly for a couple years and used that. Of course the power strip got bumped during the first boot and bricked the ssd. Third times a charm...... I had ordered another SSD for mine so I gave him my Mushkin 120g and bought a new case so now every last piece is new. Everything worked fine for a few month's and then I get a phone call, it's done it again. I haven't even taken it out of my car to look, but from messing around at his house, it's doing the same thing.
So I'm out of ideas really. The only thing I found that looked odd, was in bios the ram had ECC set to enabled and I'm pretty sure this ram does not allow for ECC.
It has done this on both windows 7 and windows 10
Sata cable issues?
Food for thought, since he is blind he doesn't always know what is going on with the computer. Early on when he "thought" his computer was frozen, he would start spamming the power button. And he later admitted to me that the cable on his headphones would sometimes cut out, so that could have been the initial problem. But I basically told him to never touch the power button, so that shouldn't be the problem now.
I could really use some insight, the ECC issue sounds odd but why was it fine for the first year? Thought's or direction?
AMD Vishera 6 core
4g generic ddr3
Asus M5-A97 R2.0
generic 400w psu
ATI X1900XT (fan died on this so it was replaced)
PNY Nvidia GT610
Corsair Force3 refurb (after several reinstalls chkdsk found errors on this)
replaced with my non-refurb Corsair Force3 (when it was booting I unplugged his laptop and the power strip hit the desk, bricked this drive)
Mushkin 120g ssd (this is the one that after a couple months won't boot, it's sitting in the car un-diagnosed)
So a brief history. I bought him these components and to save money re-used some of the part's from his previous desktop/IE my old Pentium D rig. The case and gpu were reused. For about a year the machine was just fine, running windows 7 with office and his screen reading software, Window Eyes. Then he upgraded to windows 10 and after a few months started having problems. After replacing all of the case fans I realized the fan on the ATI was stopping eventually and crashing the computer. So I went to best buy and got the PNY 610. After a few months his desktop started corrupting, I would reinstall windows and he would have it for a week and then I would get it back. After enough times it finally lagged hard while I had it and that's when I looked at the ssd and chkdsk showed several errors. Rather than risk a ssd that might be dieing I took my second SSD which had been running flawlessly for a couple years and used that. Of course the power strip got bumped during the first boot and bricked the ssd. Third times a charm...... I had ordered another SSD for mine so I gave him my Mushkin 120g and bought a new case so now every last piece is new. Everything worked fine for a few month's and then I get a phone call, it's done it again. I haven't even taken it out of my car to look, but from messing around at his house, it's doing the same thing.
So I'm out of ideas really. The only thing I found that looked odd, was in bios the ram had ECC set to enabled and I'm pretty sure this ram does not allow for ECC.
It has done this on both windows 7 and windows 10
Sata cable issues?
Food for thought, since he is blind he doesn't always know what is going on with the computer. Early on when he "thought" his computer was frozen, he would start spamming the power button. And he later admitted to me that the cable on his headphones would sometimes cut out, so that could have been the initial problem. But I basically told him to never touch the power button, so that shouldn't be the problem now.
I could really use some insight, the ECC issue sounds odd but why was it fine for the first year? Thought's or direction?
