I am still having bad problems...

[unpluGGedddd]

1) My hard drive just shuts down sometimes - Example: The middle of a game, downloading music

- Power settings: It's not set to go off, no hibernation, no UPS, none of those

2) My MOUSE freezes, not my computer

- This is a guess because one time I was listening to an MP3 and I "Froze" but the music was still going....

3) Bios Bootblock error

- Someone said to reflash, don't have the start up things to flash it

Thanks

Sorry, forgot the mention that XP says it's Nvidia Geforce 3 that is causing the problem .. 21.83 XP Drivers, are those a known problem?

 

[unpluGGedddd]

Computer Specs

Maxtor 30gb ATA100
Windows XP
Abit KT7A
Geforce3
Microsoft Optical Mouse (Using USB)
AMD 1.2 on Alpha Pal 8045

 

[ZZZZZZ]

Are you sure you HD is shutting down? If it is then maybe the HD is over heating. Only thing you cnad realy try is another HD and see it the problem reoccurs.

I belive XP is correct with freezing issue. It does sound more like a Video related problem. But before you do anything you need to fix the BIOS boot block error which could be the cause of any issue...

Make a bootablle floppy, ( open a DOS command prompt and type "Format A: /s" without the parenthicies) copy the BIOS file you downloaded to the floppy, and run it (it will extract the files to floppy), then reboot witht he floppy still in the drive. when the system boot to the floppy run the runme.bat program and follow the instructions. Do not turn off the power or interfere with the flash process until it is completed. it will tell you when it is done.

 

[BadThad]

I agree with ZZZZZZ, you really need to flash that BIOS. The BIOS is the MOST critical part of any PC. If the BIOS is hosed, the system isn't going anywhere and one can expect problems galore.