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| | a disk read error has occured press CTRL ALT & DEL TO RESTART i get the Constatnt above error at random times with my windows xp professional (intergrated sp2) when i Boot up at first i thought it may have been my 1st Drive seagate 500gb SATA 2 had less or just over 6 months so i took it out (in process of returning for diagnostic testing) got another drive Brand New but a maxtor 250GB in hope for more reliability re installed windows on that and by a shock it did it again on a brand new drive ime thinking there may be a million to one chance it couldnt happen when it lets me get into windows it runs as sweet as a nut i have tried the following .. change the SATA cable .. move the SATA cable to another SATA port .. move the drive to another drive bay .. Update Chipset Drivers .. Bios is up to date Spec INTEL QUAD CORE 12MB cache (not overclocked) ASUS P5NT - DELUXE MOTHERBOARD 2GB CRUTIAL BALLISTIX 6400 ASUS 8800GTX GRAPHICS PCI - EXPRESS MAXTOR 250GB DIAMOND MAX 21 SATA 2 HD AMPLE COOLING 6 FANS AND A NVIDIA ZALMAN COOLER i bet if i formatted Windows Again it would do the same thing i tried the Help n Support Database nothiing even close Any Solutions |
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