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JURGEN, I don't think its my power supply or at least I hope not. My old power supply was 160Watts. Like I said before, the new one is 300. Thats almost a 100% increase. The only new things I've added were a new video card and a gig of ram. If its the power supply then that means the video card...

Ski, Reinstalling the old hardware is my next step. However, since the computer slows to a near stand still when I attempt to access the internet, I need the disk with the drivers for the old video card. My friend is mailing this to me as I type this. Once I get that I'll be able to reinstall...

On the WD diagnostic it says SMART Status - Fail Raw Read Error Rate ID Value Threshold Worst Warrant 1 198 51 1 1 In all the other Categories the worst is higher than the threshold. I'm assuming thats why this test failed. In the previous independent...

Ok guys-- another update... I just ran the Western Digital diagnostic software and on the SMART test the Raw Read Error Rate says its FAILED. Does this mean I need a new hard drive???????????

Thanks for the quick reply ski. Heres a follow up to my post. -- There are no bad sectors or errors when I run ChkDsk in DOS mode. Also, here is more data from a program someone suggested using in a previous post. Model Number: WDC WD800BB-53CAA1 Cylinders: 16383 Heads: 16 Sectors per...

Hi guys. Im new to the board and desperate for advice. I have a gateway E-4000 series and I'm in the process of upgrading it. I bought a new 300watt power supply, an ATI 256mg AGP DDR2 video card, and a gig of kingston DDR SDRAM DIMM. I installed the power supply and ram (old in slot 1 and new...