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Bugsy
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Posted: 31st Aug 2010 03:23
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hey guys, for some reason, we're gettign troubles here.

I was playing some AVA after recently updating it, and all of a sudden, the screen went all green and blueish and froze like that, although my music and sound kept playign in the background, so the game was still running.

I rebooted my computer, and then it wanted to run chkdsk, but I skipped it, and now whenever I watch a certain video it says C: is unreadable and corrupt.

wat do guys?

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CocaCola
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Posted: 31st Aug 2010 03:55
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press the orb > then in the starch search type in "chkdsk" and run that!!

I want coke, not Pepsi!
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charger bandit
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Posted: 31st Aug 2010 09:46
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Sounds like a bad hard drive.


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Bugsy
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Posted: 31st Aug 2010 22:55
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eh yeah. It's what I suspected but didn't want to assume until I asked.

ran me some chkdsk, it encountered an "unexpected error" on step 2.

I don't actually know what this means.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 1st Sep 2010 00:05
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chkdsk usually wants to autorun anytime it detected the computer wasn't shut down properly. Doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad harddrive, especially since you only started encountering problems after updating. You said you get an unreadable C drive error only on a certain video. It's possible the video is corrupted, but it could also be stored in a bad segment on the drive if it is failing.

What was the message you got after running check disk? What kind of harddrive do you have? Each manufacturer usually has their own diagnostic tool, I'd suggest try running that to see what comes up.

In any case, if the drive is bad I'd start backing up files now while you can.


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Bugsy
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Posted: 1st Sep 2010 00:18
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seagate 160 gb harddrive. no place to backup. it says unexpeceted error, and then goes back to windows XP.

it's also giving me problems testing my madness day animation. it wont load and flash locks up. in the first step in chkdsk it deleted a good many things.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 1st Sep 2010 05:14
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Quote: "I was playing some AVA after recently updating it, and all of a sudden, the screen went all green and blueish and froze like that"


Sounds like your graphics card could have been overheating. I doubt your HDD would have caused any problem with graphics output; any problem with that is probably due to not shutting down properly.
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Bugsy
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2010 01:37
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probably so.
my graphics cards have horrible cooling in this old awful case.
I just dont have the money for a new one.

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Ocho Geek
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2010 19:32
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Quote: "seagate 160 gb harddrive. no place to backup. it says unexpeceted error, and then goes back to windows XP"


If you reckon your HDD is going, get an external hard drive, you can get a 500GB one for about 40GBP (60USD) on special offer, and if you only backup files occasionally, it should last a good while

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