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  1. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    Well, I'm on dell.com right now about to chat with a rep regarding a possible harddrive upgrade. I didn't run any of the diags cause I just figured it's old enough it could probably use it. Also not quite sure how to run them and didn't want to make things worse lol... Thanks everyone for all...
  2. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    I'm going to try running the diagnostic again, I didn't have much luck with it before. I'm rather new to this whole process, but was tired of it not being fixed right when we paid people to fix it. Harddrives are generally plug and play, right? No drivers to install or what not?
  3. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    Well, its happened twice today, and I've rebooted a little more than that. I think I've rebooted about 3 maybe 4 times, and only remember seeing the issue twice. It had also popped up a few days ago after rebooting. (I'd been reinstalling drivers and such after running KillDisk and then...
  4. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    Over the past few days, I've noticed a message that pops up and not quite sure what its related to. I'm guessing its either the Harddrive or the Graphics/Vid card, but again, not very sure. Here's the message that I receive: "RAID Access Failure. Access Failure: Critical error on disk SAMSUNG...
  5. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    Thanks for the insight guys, I'm about to go and check that stuff out. I still think that kjv1611 has a point. Considering the computer is about 4 years old, it probably wouldn't hurt to change up the harddrive. You all have been great help, I really appreciate it. For two years we've been...
  6. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    So then, my friend was right and its most likely some kind of hard drive issue? It was suggested that perhaps some dust or something found its way into the harddrive causing peculiar errors such as the one I've described. I was planning on looking into buying a new harddrive and replacing each...
  7. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    Wow, really? I had someone suggest that it could be a harddrive issue. Though, from what you're saying, I could probably have to change them both out. Yes, nVidia is on the computer, but I'm not entirely sure of the model number. This computer was built four years ago by Dell, would there be...
  8. kat8309

    PC Issues loading from DVDROM

    Two years ago, my Dell XPS was taken in to have Trojans removed, since then it hasn't worked right. Sound issues (sound would die and couldn't even play a vid), and the computer would completely freeze up at random. At that time, I played World of Warcraft. This computer is a gaming machine and...

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