Post by /-/Tiamat on Oct 17, 2011 23:04:57 GMT -5
The pc i used to play on(HP Pavilion p6510y) crapped out on me about 6 months ago or so. The reason for the malfunction i have found out was that the Hardrive had gotten fried in a way(the surge protector i used to have did not have a ground prong/plug so everytime the power went out during a storm or when i first got my kitty she decided to just hop on the pc and hit the power button while i was playing). I can start the pc up almost every time with no problem but within 30 minutes or so i would just end up getting a blue screen.
I know for a fact everything in the PC is ok but the harddrive because i have run PC diagnostics tests and pretty much every time everything else checked out but the Harddrive(said there was bad sectors or something). I was wondering if it is possible to get a spare harddrive, reformat it and copy everything on the damaged harddrive to the new one and use the spare harddrive as the main if this would fix the problem.
I was not able to start the pc until i had talked to someone ingame that told me the most likely problem with the pc due to what i had explained. So i figured i would put in the spare harddrive to help boot the pc as well and it turned out successful, but within 45 minutes or so of being on it i had attempted to play UO(everything was fine for about 15 minutes and then out of nowhere UO crashed, i exited tried restarting, joining the same server and as soon as i joined the server i had gotten the dreadful blue-screen).
I know for a fact everything in the PC is ok but the harddrive because i have run PC diagnostics tests and pretty much every time everything else checked out but the Harddrive(said there was bad sectors or something). I was wondering if it is possible to get a spare harddrive, reformat it and copy everything on the damaged harddrive to the new one and use the spare harddrive as the main if this would fix the problem.
I was not able to start the pc until i had talked to someone ingame that told me the most likely problem with the pc due to what i had explained. So i figured i would put in the spare harddrive to help boot the pc as well and it turned out successful, but within 45 minutes or so of being on it i had attempted to play UO(everything was fine for about 15 minutes and then out of nowhere UO crashed, i exited tried restarting, joining the same server and as soon as i joined the server i had gotten the dreadful blue-screen).
everything was working fine for a few hours then i played uo for a bit and when i went to disconnect from the server my pc froze up for no reason, i couldn't open up task manager so had no choice but to shut down the pc manually. After that i restarted and everything seemed fine at first then i hopped on vent and was gonna play some black ops zombies with loveless, i started up black ops and went to join the server LL hosted and then boom... pc crashed weird thing each time these happened i did not get bluescreens on either of them. I guess it is more than just the harddrive that was the problem but that was one of the big problems because things worked better after i installed the new OS.