I couldn't get my WD SATA HD working for a month and I was using my new Geforce 6800 on a 15gig hard drive. Finally I got my SATA HD working and took the drivers off of the 15gig HD and put them on my SATA 120gig (they were v61.77 drivers from the company with Omega drivers installed also) along with my nforce2 chipset drivers. I installed Everquest 2 and started playing it and it lasted a while (about 20 mins) and it finally made the windows "BUNG" sound and dropped out into windows. I tried a couple more times and it did the same thing and I was pissed since I wanted to get my new HD working mostly to play EQ2 and HL2 and now they don't work. So I installed HL2 and tried it, it was even quicker and it dropped out in about 5 mins. I tried it again but this time it dropped out and gave me a blue screen or the blue screen of death as some call it, and said windows has encountered a problem and needs to shut down or something close to that. I was then even more pissed and I tried looking on the internet for someone with the same problem and I found a few with similar problems but not the same one, so I tried what they suggested (one said download the newest drivers but I didn't do that since I had good drivers) but I tried 2 different types of chipset drivers, I tried downloading the windows updates (haven't got to service pack 2 which is my only other idea, which I don't think will work) I tried underclocking my CPU, I then tried downloading the newest video card drivers (v66.93 nvidia drivers), I updated my BIOS, I uninstalled and reinstalled my old drivers, I upped the voltage to my video card, installed the motherboard utilities from the original CD, and a few other things I can't remember. If anyone can help me think of anything else it would be much appreciated because I can't play any games until that is fixed and I am all out of ideas. Thank you and I'll try some other things in the meantime.

Which HD is ure primary and which one is the secondary? If ure not sure, check the back of each HD and ull figure it out eventually. The HD with ure O/S on it should be the Primary slave and ure backup HD Should be the Secondary slave. If that doesnt help then try formatting ure HD and rienstalling windows. PS: Y do u need 120GB + 15GB? Isn't 120GB enough? Im runnin on a 80GB HD and i only used 23GB.... Omg, so many pll download illegal game, movies, music and etc too often these days... XV-Roadkill

I doubt whether it has anything to do with the harddrive since the games mostly run off ram once they are loaded. I would be looking at temperature issues, bios settings, Testing the ram with memtest86, and updating the graphics drivers. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.

lol ian209, you totally misunderstood, I don't have a slave on my comp, it's very hard to make IDE and SATA HDs work together as primary and slave, you would need to download specific drivers to do that and I'm not sure where to get those. What happened is I put my new video card in before I took my old drivers off, and I know it was stupid, but it messed up a bunch of my windows files, so I popped in the drivers disk for my HD and my windows CD to repair those files and windows couldnt find the hard drive, and after messing with it for a week and not getting it to work, I borrowed a 15gig from my bro to use while my other hard drive was down, so it was just a temporary HD. Finally, a couple of days ago I popped another disk in that was laying around and that happened to have the right drivers on it and windows found my hard drive finally and it worked. I was thinking it was a problem with windows. But it could be my processor, I say that because I knocked my processor down (its running at 1.2ghz now from 2.8ghz) and it runs longer before dropping out. It isn't overheating because when it has a bluescreen it will restart and I go into the bios and check the temp and its running at 104 now (usually runs at 115 or so which is hot and is why I am probably going to get a watercooling system, because I can't get it to go down). I know it isn't my video card drivers because I have the newest ones now, and when it started doing this I was using some other ones with the Omega drivers upgrade on it. I also noticed that when it went to a blue screen, it said something like "this may be cause by the file: nv4disp.dll" which would be a windows file right, because it's .dll? But when I tried to find it, it didn't show up, so I don't know how to check that. It could be a problem with RAM but it has been working and I haven't touched that, plus computers have a wierd way of totally screwing things up and I would be in denial if it was my RAM because that is pretty expensive RAM. BTW ian, I can't download anything illegally, I'm on a 56k connection and can't get anything better so even if I wanted to download a game, it would probably take a week to download 800mbs or so. I'll give that memtest a try, thanx for the ideas. Oh and nowadays 120gigs isn't enough for a lot of people, Everquest 2 takes up something like 8 gigs or something by itself. Farcry takes 3-5gigs I think, and half-life 2 is about the same. Considering that, my bro has almost all of the best games out right now and all of the newest, so I could easily fill up this hard drive with all of the games he has, he has a giant cupboard full of games that he's bought. Oh, he has cable though and he only lives about 100 yards away and they won't give it to me over here, which sucks, and no I wouldn't use it to download games and things, I would use it to play games like Rainbow Six 3, I rarely listen to music anyways, so I don't download music either.

nv4disp.dll is not a windows file. It is one of the nvidia display driver files so your problems are in part related to your graphics. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.