Hi everyone,

This is my first post at this forum. I'm hoping someone can help me out with a frustating computer problem.

If there's a better utility that'll copy and paste info, please let me know.

Here's a system info picture below

Basically, my computer just started to freeze right on the windows loading screen. When it freezes, I hit reset, but then my hard drives show up on bootup all weird.

for example, my bootup normally shows my maxtor as "Maxtor 6L300R0" and on bootup after a freeze it shows Maxtor 6L300R0 BAJ41HG20.

when i try to get into bios, IT FREEZES too.

Only when I shut the computer completely down, does it list my hard drives normally and let me get past my windows login screen.

Oh, and my motherboard is a Shuttle AK32V if that helps.

What's going on here? :o

-Travis

Is this a new system? It almost sounds like your hard drive jumpers are set incorrectly. That's the only time I've seen BIOS report drives incorrectly.

Musky
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Try disconnecting any external devices and drives other than C:. If that doesn't make a difference, try pulling any cards that aren't really necessary.

Try a different IDE/SATA cable. I had that happen to me when a cable was bad.

Hmm I wonder what happened to decency and morality? Doesn't anyone remember them?

sounds like hd failing, d/l maxblaster grom maxtors site "on another comp". you have to setup the prog to make a bootable cd,boot off the cd and run thier diagnostics

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